Product DescriptionYou May Hate Spammer-X, But Can You Afford to Ignore Him?
Learn How Spammers Stay One Step Ahead of the Law
A Methodical and Technically Explicit Exposé That Travels Beyond Configuring Filters and Cleaning Mailboxes
A 'Must Read' for Security Professionals, Law Enforcement, Hackers, and Programmers
'You may not know me, but it's likely you have received at least one of the 10 to 20 million spam e-mails I send each week. This is my story, my chance to tell the world how and why I became one of the world's most prolific spammers. I'll take you inside the Spam Cartel, showing real examples and techniques used to send spam, including how e-mail addresses are obtained, spam filters are evaded, and money is made. I want you to understand how a spammer works and why I choose to work in one of the most hated industries in the world. '---Spammer X
? Understand SPAM as an Industry See why SPAM has become a preferred means of mass market advertising for many companies.
? Learn How Spammers 'Own' Proxy Servers and SMTP Relays Scan networks to identify security flaws for exploitation.
? Bait the Hook with Phishing and Scam SPAM See how promises of a Nigerian treasury surplus or an uncollected lottery winning attract the unsuspecting.
? Discover the Top Spoofed Spam Domains You may be surprised to know that the most commonly abused domains include Microsoft, Yahoo, and Ameritech locations.
? Employ SPAM Forensics Track a spammer's activities and build a fingerprint from the spam they send and the techniques they use.
? Learn the Rules of the CAN-SPAM Act Find the teeth in the law to help protect both corporate and national security interests.
? Create Messages that Get Read Only the best spammers have mastered the art of making the reader want to buy an otherwise useless product.
? Learn how VoIP Spam May Be the Next Big Thing VoIP creates an IP address for your phone number, meaning most of the spammer's e-mail techniques can be readily ported.
Your Solutions Membership Gives You Access to:
Comprehensive FAQ page that consolidates all of the key points of this book into an easy to search web page
'From the Author' Forum where the authors post timely updates and links to related sites
The complete code listings from the book
These downloadable e-booklets:
WarDriving: Learning to WarDrive
Hacking the Code: Managing Sessions
Cyber Adversary Characterization: Introduction to Auditing the Hacker Mind
Wireless Hacking: Building Outdoor Enclosures and Antenna Masts
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Great story! Lot of tricks for IT guys
I learn a lot reading this book about how SPAM got to my mailbox.
But that's really a book for tech guys. Common people will be easily lost in technical details.
Rating: - The Editors Should Be Fired
Although Syngress apparently employed a Technical Editor (Jeffrey Posluns) and a Copy Editor (Judy Eby) in preparing this book, it's riddled with both technical and grammatical errors. For experienced email server administrators, Inside the Spam Cartel is an almost complete waste of time. Novices would learn a great deal from this book, but much of what they learned would be wrong. (For example, on p. 183 the author claims that a public key allows one to decrypt a message encrypted using PGP. Or ... Read More
Rating: - GET Rich Quick ....NOT... SAVE your MONEY FO0L
The title sells the book. It has will not help you LEARN to do this. Think he will help you HACK to get e-mail lists ? NO? Think HE will tell you HOW TO STAY OUT of Jail ? NO. Think he will tell you how to make easy $$. NO
Think he will CASH IN ON YOUR STUPIDITY ? YES YES YES YES !!!
make him RICH please buy the book FOOLS !
Rating: - Childish. Why reward a crook?
Well, the author is clearly a Chickenboner - the book is full of grammatical errors, especially toward the end. It also has major factual errors, as other reviewers have pointed out. (I skimmed it at the local library.) Also, he's clearly a criminal, since spamming is illegal in most jurisdictions, so I give it 1 star.
Rating: - If Only He Did Not Play So Fast and Loose With facts
The Vikings from Monty Python's Flying Circus love SPAM so much, that the mere mention of the word has them break out in song, singing "Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!". For e-mail users, there are not many who would give the same response. We get it. We despise it. We wonder how many times we will get the same messages over and over again. But do we truly understand the machinations behind the scenes of the SPAM industry? It is this fundamental question that drives "Inside the SPAM Cartel: Trade ... Read More
- Great story! Lot of tricks for IT guys
- The Editors Should Be Fired
- GET Rich Quick ....NOT... SAVE your MONEY FO0L
- If Only He Did Not Play So Fast and Loose With facts
