On Mar 27, 2014, at 1:38 PM, Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com> wrote:
On Thu, 27 Mar 2014, Owen DeLong wrote:
On Mar 27, 2014, at 11:15 AM, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> wrote:
Please explain in detail where the fraud potential comes in.
Spammer uses his botnet of zombie machines to send email from each of them to his own domain using the user's legitimate email address as From:. Spammer says it was unsolicited and keeps the full $.10/email that victim users have deposited into this escrow thing.
Sounds a lot more profitable than regular spam.
You say this like having a tax on running a botted computer on the internet would be a bad thing. I agree that it would provide a bit of profit to the spammers for a very short period of time, but I bet it would get a lot of bots fixed pretty quick. Owen