The Story of Nadine
The Story of “Nadine” — a Tale of Mailing Lists. It’s been out there for a while, but somehow I’ve missed it until now. A diligent system administrator writes up the story of one misaddressed opt-in and the subsequent sale of that information from one spammer to another. Particularly interesting was the effort one spammer put in, by apparently going to the trouble of looking up the name of a joint tenant in some public records somewhere.
