Exploits Contributor Program (fwd)

[William Knowles]

On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Bram Cohen wrote:

It appears that someone is having a little fun with iDefense's
Vulnerability Contributor Program. An e-mail I got from from a third
party looks exactly like the one below, and the iMoolah webpage is
basically a rip of the iDefense page.

http://www.idefense.com/contributor.html

Cheers!

William Knowles
wk at c4i.org


> I just got the following spam. I have no idea what their deal is,
> anybody care to guess if it's an extortion group?
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 01:14:24 -0000
> From: iMoolah <ecp at imoolah.hotusa.org>
> To: iMoolah <ecp at imoolah.hotusa.org>
> Subject: Exploits Contributor Program
> 
> Greetingz,
> 
> iMoolah is pleased to announce the official launch of its Exploits
> Contributor Program (ECP). The ECP pays contributors very well for
> the advance and exclusive notification of exploit code and malicious
> code.
> 
> iMoolah belives you might find our terms for contributing to the ECP
> very attractive. The following provides answers to some basic
> questions about the program:
> 
> Q. How will it work?
> A. iMoolah understands the majority of security researchers are paid
> peanuts for publishing security research, and $400 for a fully
> working unpublished exploit just doesn't cut it; rather, it could be
> for any of a number of motivations, including the following:
> 
>  * MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY. Everyone's in it for a quick buck.
>  * Other more boring reasons that have nothing to do with moolah.
> 
> The ECP is for those who may or may not want to have their research
> made public to the Internet community, but who would definitely like
> to be paid for doing the work.  The compensation will depend, among
> other things, on the following items:

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