{"id":5671,"date":"2012-01-03T18:44:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T01:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.webroot.com\/?p=5671"},"modified":"2018-01-30T12:30:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T19:30:02","slug":"millions-of-harvested-emails-offered-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/2012\/01\/03\/millions-of-harvested-emails-offered-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of harvested emails offered for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

What does it take to be a successful spammer in 2012? Access to a botnet, managed<\/a><\/strong> spamming<\/a><\/strong> appliance<\/a><\/strong>, spam templates that are capable of bypassing spam filters, and most importantly freshly harvested databases<\/a><\/strong> of valid emails<\/a><\/strong> from multiple email providers.<\/p>\n

Let’s profile a web-based service currently selling millions of harvested emails to potential spammers, and find out just how easy it is to purchase that kind of data within the cybercrime ecosystem.<\/p>\n

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Like every successful marketer, spammers too, know the basics of market segmentation<\/a><\/strong>, and market localization. From vendors of localization on demand services<\/a><\/strong>, offering spammers to ability to \u00a0translate their messages to the native languages<\/a><\/strong> of their prospective recipients, to vendors of segmented email databases, in 2012 spamming is easy to outsource and manage as a service.<\/p>\n

The web-service I’m going to profile is called Baza-Inform. Basically, it offers potential spammers segmented databases of harvested emails.<\/p>\n

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Currently, the service has the following inventory of emails:<\/p>\n