Petard

You don’t mean to tell me that companies that pander to spammers — most of whom redolent frauds — might themselves be frauds? Say it ain’t so, Joe!

This site purchased a couple of those CDs you get spam for, the ones that say they have zillions of legit e-mail addresses that you can then use for your own spamming operation. The result of the analysis:

• Over half the addresses are duplicates (triplicates, or more, up to 14x).
• A large number of spam abuse addresses for various ISPs and organizations show up. Yeah, that’ll sell those enlargers all right.
• A large number of invalid addresses (like “wu.html” as a domain).
• Lots of other useful addresses for hawking viagra, like embassies, airports, and other spammers.

You get what you pay for. Or what you deserve, in this case.

(via BoingBoing)