Targeted Spam Marketing

Here is another classic example of the result of some very specific directory harvest attacks. A directory harvest attack is preformed with the sole purpose of collecting email addresses either to use or to collect and sell on the black market. Normally the sale of these addresses is done on fly by night forums to "trusted" individuals, but sometimes you'll run across an example such as this one. Apparently they got sick of trying to sell these one by one, and decided a mass marketing approach would be better for business. This campaign is specializing in physician email addresses for the very reasonable price of $195.