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8 Comments(I wish there was a "Revenge" community... :)
Does anyone know of a service that would allow you to submit people's email addresses to SPAMmers?
Even with the powers of Gmail and WordPress, I still get flooded with SPAM (well, annoyingly trickled)... they so often leave what seam to be legit email addresses, making me wish I could send them back a little taste of their own poison.
So how about it - anyone know of such a service? Would it even be effective, or are SPAMmers like ninjas in that unless I was one, I couldn't defeat one?
oniTony
Written Aug. 14, 2007 / Report /
That just seems like a really bad idea, for so many reasons. Besides, obviously, pushing out more spam traffic into the tubes, you are also a) releasing your email address, and b) if the reply email address looks legit, it was probably harvested and belongs to someone else.
peroty
Written Aug. 14, 2007 / Report /
Even better, find the rudest, crudest most outlandish magazines (you know, those things printed on paper) and sign them up for one.
It may cost you a couple bucks. But just imagine the conversations within the house or with the company. ;-)
Vidar
Written Aug. 14, 2007 / Report /
oh, and sign them up to every mailing list in existance
cechols
Written Aug. 14, 2007 / Report /
It may not be quite as cathartic as you're hoping for, but Spam Poison is a good start.
I don't know if anyone else followed the Blue Frog Security debacle, but it was a frightening example of what can happen when an organized effort is made to combat spam.
I used the Blue Frog plugin at the time, and when the spammers turned their firehose on us, it was a nightmare. I was getting 200-300 spam emails a night in my personal email. I had no choice but to abandon Blue Frog.
Spammers suck. Here's a small vindication to make you feel better.
Cappuccino
Written Aug. 14, 2007 / Report /
The problem is that most of the email addresses spammers use are either fake or stolen from someone else. Spammers are the worst.
Ozone42
Written Aug. 14, 2007 / Report /
In all honesty, If I met a spammer, I'd have a lot of trouble not beating them senseless. Same goes for virus, trojan, worm, malware/adware makers.
computerjoe
Written Aug. 15, 2007 / Report /
Spammers steal my email address. It sucks. I get bounced spam and I feel guilty :(
oniTony
Written Aug. 15, 2007 / Report /
So there's this one story where an author had set up an auto-responder email that would mail out his ebook upon request. Request being any email to the address. You can probably guess where this story is heading...
Somehow this address was harvested by a spammer, and used in the reply-to headers. A bunch of spam bounced and ended up in the inbox of autoresponder account. Thus each spam message was rewarded with an ebook attachment. Now since all those messages bounced in the first place, the ebook emails bounced as well, and... you guessed it - were send another copy of the file. Soon enough the mail server has crashed under heavy load.