Spammers hit back at anti-spam company

Herzliya (Israel) - Spammers are hitting back at the customers of an Israeli anti-spam company, Blue Security. Customers had been using Blue Security’s Blue Frog tool to report spammers, but those same customers are now on the receiving end of a stream of e-mails ordering them to stop using Blue Security’s services.

Blue Frog works by putting users into a do-not-spam database. The online order forms of the spamming companies are then filled out with a request to quit sending spam. When this is scaled up to millions of orders, you can appreciate the impact this can have on spammers.

Blue Security obviously has made someone mad. Spammers have fought back by hitting Blue Security customers with thousands of messages. The messages places the blame on Blue Security and tells customers to stop using the anti-spam service.

"You signed up because you were expecting to recieve a lesser amount of spam, unfortunately, due to the tactics used by BlueSecurity, you will end up recieving this message, or other nonsensical spams 20-40 times more than you would normally," the message says.

In addition to the spam, Blue Security claims its Web site may have been the target of a distributed denial of service attack, after it was rendered inaccessible on Tuesday. The site continues to be slow today.