According to Spamhaus, over 70% of spam is spewed by unknowing innocent computers converted to zombies, with the slave army swelling by up to 100,000 PCs each week.

Of course, managing a slave army requires appropriate software to keep the zombies in line. Spamhaus says the Microsoft and Oracle of the Evil Zombie biz are Send Safe and DMS. And how do Evil Zombie sellers and buyers hookup?

It takes an enabler. And Spamhaus claims, at least for Send Safe, that enabler is MCI Worldcom, the ISP for www.send-safe.com:

  • “MCI’s executives know send-safe.com uses the MCI network to sell and distribute the illegal Send Safe proxy hijacking bulk mailer…”
  • “For more than a year MCI [has] flatly refused to stop send-safe.com and other proxy spam gangs, which has allowed Send Safe to become one of the most sold anonymous proxy hijacking bulk mailers on the spam scene, and has had ever more spammers flocking to MCI.”
  • “MCI has consistently occupied first place in Spamhaus TOP 10 World Worst Spam Service ISPs chart, with over 200 spammers and spam gangs on the MCI network in full knowledge of the security managers and the General Counsel.”

Finally, Spamhaus blasts: “We estimate that MCI earns upwards of US$5,000,000 a year from selling service knowingly to known spam gangs, incentive enough for MCI Sales executives to want to keep the income coming, no matter what havoc the paying spam gangs are wreaking to the Internet.”

See for yourself at Spamhaus.