New home for The Spammers’ Compendium

2008-05-01

Helen Martin

Virus Bulletin, UK

Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

Spammers' trick repository moves to VB.

For more than five years, John Graham-Cumming has tracked the tricks used by spammers in the bodies of their messages and recorded the details of those tricks in a collection known as The Spammers’ Compendium. As the Compendium has grown it has proved a useful resource for spam-fighters, enabling patterns in trickery to be identified and innovations to be spotted. At the end of March, however, John announced his retirement from the anti-spam industry and VB is very pleased to reveal that John has handed over the hosting and maintenance of the Spammers’ Compendium to Virus Bulletin.

The new home of the Spammers’ Compendium is at http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/spammerscompendium/. As previously, entries are made in The Spammers’ Compendium when new tricks have been identified in spam seen in the wild by volunteer contributors. Submitters of new tricks will be credited in The Spammers’ Compendium for their contributions. Please send contributions to [email protected].

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