Spamnation.info does a great job in exposing the stock spammers and the spam-advertised stocks. The listing shows the name of the company, its symbol, and the number of messages received. Unfortunately he pissed off some cyber crime spam lords and his site was to pay the price.
Around 1pm EST on Friday 12th of January, the server that hosts the site came under a sustained distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. In order to protect other, unrelated sites and servers in the same location, the hosting company that provided webspace to spamnation.info was forced to take the site offline.
The attack was conducted by a botnet consisting of multiple zombie computers and in a later phase of the attack against spamnation.info we recorded thousands of simultaneous connections and traffic levels as high as 37Mbits/second. It's hard not to conclude that someone really wanted us offline.
Spam isn't some minor irritation, but a form of organized criminality. Spammers are thugs who will use whatever means they have at their disposal to silence their critics and to prevent any interference with their 'business', a business based on theft and fraud. Fighting spam is about more than just being able to read your email or use the web without being drowned in junk; it's about trying to put a spoke in the wheel of crooks who make their money by preying on ordinary people.
Spamnation.info's stock spam statistics are a great resource and I highly recommend it to anybody who trades stocks online . DO NOT let stock spammrs influence your investment strategy.
