Hackers and Spammers Getting together

Anthony · 10-14-2004

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/20...3/phishing.html

Ben Kittridge admits that spamming violates traditional hacker ethics. But with computer programming jobs scarce, the eighteen-year-old Florida software whiz has joined the spam trade. This year, Kittridge made several thousand dollars selling Fahrenheit, a spamware program he wrote from scratch, to dozens of mysterious customers.

But now, Kittridge finds himself an unwitting accomplice in a recent email scam that attempted to separate customers of US Bancorp from their account information.
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The kid is 18 years old. Wow.

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Anthony Banned The global leader in pay-per-view AEBN Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 3,246	http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/20...3/phishing.html Ben Kittridge admits that spamming violates traditional hacker ethics. But with computer programming jobs scarce, the eighteen-year-old Florida software whiz has joined the spam trade. This year, Kittridge made several thousand dollars selling Fahrenheit, a spamware program he wrote from scratch, to dozens of mysterious customers. But now, Kittridge finds himself an unwitting accomplice in a recent email scam that attempted to separate customers of US Bancorp from their account information. ------ The kid is 18 years old. Wow.