SPAM CDs

[FanJ]

An analysis about CDs on which millions of email-addresses (in this case addresses from The Netherlands and Belgium):

A spamvertized CD with e-mailaddresses

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In the first half of 2003 two particular spamruns attracted my attention - this incidentally coincided with the start of the non-profit anti-spam foundation spamvrij.nl ("free-of-spam.nl") by several people, including myself. These runs were spamvertizing two sets of CD's with millions of Dutch and Belgian addresses. I happened to be able to get one of these CD's. So, here's my analysis, with numbers and notes.

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Read more at this site in English:
http://rejo.zenger.nl/abuse/emailcd.php


The Dutch magazine "PC-Active" has an article about it in its March-issue.

On the the following site of "PC-Active" you can check whether your email-addy is on one of those CDs.
The site is in Dutch.
You can type your email-address in the field and click on "Zoek".

http://www.aktu.nl/pc-active/spam/

I tried it, and yes I was on one of those CDs according to that site.
A message in red color in Dutch comes up :
"Dit e-mailadres staat op de spam-cd's".
In English this means (translation by me):
"This email-address is listed on the SPAM CDs".