[anti-abuse-wg] Abuse: Too big to fail

On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 10:11:10 +0000
Esa Laitinen <esa at laitinen.org> wrote:
> Question raises: does the user you were using as an example have a
> twitter account connected with that email address? And has he
> selected to receive emails for direct messages (or something else) in
> twitter?
> 
That specific email account belongs to a salt email, salt emails are used to 
track (stolen) data.  This means that the email address is not a real person,
the email address is unique and has never existed before.

For the data I have and in my own personal knowledge, the thousands of
spam emails that specifically Twitter sends out belongs in four
categories:

Confirmation Spam: (where the confirm your email account is sent out
forever, sometimes once per month, sometimes six times a month or more)

Criminal Activity: Where fake identities - hidden in (stolen) data -
starts receiving spam linked to a Twitter Account

Outright Spam: Where spamtraps simply start receiving spam

Weird/Floating Spam: Where fake and/or non existent email addresses
start receiving spam not linked to any Twitter Account

- Now, Twitter does not want abuse reports  -  To verify - try
  submitting a SpamCop report or try to file a report yourself.

So, Twitter has no interest in investigating or stopping their abuse
and/or probable criminal behavior.

Yet, there are so many that comes to the defense of this multi national
spammer... 

then there is Facebook and all the other 'special' spammers...

This is question raises :)

Andre