[anti-abuse-wg] Chronic Abuse as a successful Internet Business Model

Hi Everyone,

There are many well skilled and top International technical resources
on this mailing list. I would like anyone that disagrees with this
post, to simply stand up and say why you disagree. If you agree,
please simply remain quiet or maybe expand and add?

Gmail.com started out by sending UBE (Unsolicited Bulk Email) to email
addresses Google scraped off public emailing lists.  (I know this
because I was spammed by google, to an email address only used on a
Linux mailing list) - The Google spam offered me a "free" gmail account
and five invites, where I might "invite" (by adding five email
addresses) 
five other "victims" to receive free @gmail.com email addresses.

For Internet techs, open source people and various others, it
quickly became a status symbol to be able to have a "google" email
address (as @gmail could not yet, at that point, be created by
anyone...)  - For me, I did not take Google up on their spam, I was to
busy figuring out where I can complain about the abuse :)

Today, the largest chronic spammers are also Twitter, Facebook, Outlook
and other "top" / big/huge dominant Internet companies.

It is common knowledge that Twitter and Facebook (supposedly online
social media applications) rely heavily on email as a technology, to
keep and engage their products.

Twitter and Facebook sends a lot of SPAM. And when you start receiving
spam from either of these you have to click on many links, and jump
through some hoops to eventually get the spammers to stop sending you
spam.

To block Facebook, or block Twitter, Google or Outlook.com is also
impossible and even when you receive phish from Outlook or Google,
chances are that it will come through as everyone has to add weight or
make special rules, to allow their emails to come through.

Yet, a common spammer from wherever else, is quickly blocked and
stopped.

An easy example (Where you can also see which RBL is ethical, open,
fair, honest and truthful) is here:

Any Facebook, Twitter, Outlook or Google IP number
http://multirbl.valli.org/dnsbl-lookup/69.171.232.139.html

and to counter, pick a really tiny spammer, from any small unknown
corner of the planet.

You will find, technically, that the Big 10 Internet Giants are listed
by a handful of decent, honest and ethical RBL - But the tiny small
spammer is listed on 60+  

So, we have two sets of rules for the dominating Internet giants and
for the small startup (who gets hacked by accident) - Similarly, this
server that I am sending to on this list, was recently blocked by
Microsoft. - I could not send any email to any @microsoft account.

Yet, I or my IP co (Hetzner.de) never received even one abuse complaint
from @Microsoft in many years. - @Microsoft though, received a few
thousand phish. scam, spam and general abuse complaints from myself and
my IP number, this past few months alone...

So, okay, we all know it is not fair and the playing field is not level
and the large companies behave like aggressive animals and best
case, like bullies.

I started thinking how these large companies are using their dominance,
applying it to other technical areas and leveraging growth, money and
income from their behavior.

And, yes, they are pivoting abuse into cloud, ai, hardware and into
domination in other areas. 

This is at this point an observation, commentary and remarks for
myself. Can anyone add any additional substance or comments?

Andre