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- iambagels, on 07/01/2008, -2/+14This is why I have one email for friends, one for useful bacon emails (new egg fliers, etc), one for useless bacon (facebook pokes), and one for spam
And actually, Gmail does such a great job filtering out spam and grouping mail into labels, I have all the others forwarded to my primary address and don't see any of the spam that collects in the other accounts. - kenvsryu, on 07/03/2008, -2/+11mcafee is spam.
- crapmatic, on 07/03/2008, -1/+6This experiment is stupid... we KNOW that signing up for offers is going to result in spam. A much more useful experiment would be to identify the companies that are signing you up for spam even when you opt out.
I recall back in 2001 I did some very specific tests with a bunch of throwaway accounts and I found that the easiest way to get spam is to have your email address (1) up on Usenet or (2) posted on a webpage; I got very little spam from regular merchants and legitimate signups. Right now I bet the most popular way of getting spammed is malware: i.e. your email address is in Dad's Outlook address book, and Dad's computer happens to be brimming with trojans. - f4nt0m4s, on 07/03/2008, -0/+5I swear, these spam people have some sort of auto dialer type system that generates random emails, because the email address that I have through my ISP has been found by the spammers. And, once you get one spam email, you get 14000 right behind it. The worst part is I NEVER give that email address away...I don't even use it to register to sites like Amazon and Newegg.
That said, I don't think there is any way to truly protect your email address, save for good spam filters and faith in whoever is providing you email service. gmail ftw!
If spam was a person I would shoot it in the face. - kjcdude, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3I have 2,430 spam messages from the past 30 days and i NEVER sign up for any of that crap, i even use a second e-mail account for sites that look like they would send spam.
- kd1s, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3I have several throw-away email addresses that I use. That said I note the largest amount of SPAM plays on sexual insecurity. That just amazes the hell out of me.
- Odaecom, on 07/01/2008, -0/+3"Teaching Grandpa why punching the monkey is bad, however, could take some doing."
Good luck at teaching an old dog not to do his old trix. - inditech, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3I tend to use http://www.mailexpire.com/ - a temp email address that dies after a preset time.
Dunno if that's useful to anyone. - Zammie, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2I often wonder if Digg is selling my email out.....however, I do like the hawt babes in the ad on the right column here!
- dagamer34, on 07/01/2008, -0/+2How can you really keep it private if it's incredibly easy to give away? Honestly, all you need is someone's e-mail address and you can start signing up for services anyway. The current e-mail system pretty much REQUIRES that you have multiple e-mail addresses for: personal, business, and crap you don't care about.
- dullnation, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2I got tired of having several different email addresses on the go so I started using my "official" one for everything. I get a ***** ton of spam but google seems to filter out 99.9% of it. It's much less hassle than having to log into several different accounts.
- FormulaVette, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2I set up a catch all account and for a site that I think might spam, i use thatsitesname@mycatchall.com
Now I know which sites sell email addresses. - beerncheese, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2"It's impossible to know which companies share data and which don't, but registering with the 'do not share my e-mail' option ticked didn't appear to reduce spam in any way. "
I read about a gmail trick awhile back: put an extra dot in your gmail handle somewhere as a flag when you sign up at websites. Gmail automatically ignores the dot, but you will be able to see it in your incoming mail. So, e.g., when you sign up at at spammy.com, don't use your regular email johndoe@gmail.com, use john.doe@gmail.com (or j.ohndo@gmail or j.o.h.ndoe, etc.) All incoming email with the dot originated from spammy.com - ThirdPrize, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2Is Grandpa still "punching the monkey" at his age? Disgusting.
- Canadian0207, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2and THIS is why we need a new internet, fully regulated.
- Mykol225, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2That's great, except for sites that use require your email to logon.
- ThantiK, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2I actually used to do this as a kiddy AOL'er back in the day before spam filtering. Someone would piss me off and I knew a total of 5 websites that I could use as sign-up portals and it was better than trying to "email bomb" them. Instead of me trying to send/fill their inbox with some "l33t pr0g", all I had to do was sign them up with all these porn websites, and voila - over 5,000 emails in an hour, every hour, for the life of the account. And these places were such scumbags that I sure wasn't ever going to get caught.
Hate to say it, but I would guarantee that it would be much better than any botnet if you needed to bring down a corporations email server. Just input the email addresses of all the company employees to 2,000 or so lists and automate it, and down goes some corporations email server. - Azuroth, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2You can use a + to achieve much the same thing. johndoe+spammysitename@gmail.com will route to you just fine, and you can use that scheme to uniquely track where particular spam came from.
- ThirdPrize, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1What we need is a new version of e-mail that is a lot less hackable. Such as the following ...
- Skurt, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1I had a POP3 account with my cable service like 6 or 8 years ago, never, never, never got any spam on it. Then they went to Web based email, I never even signed up, I already had hotmail at that time, so I just sent my contacts to that addy. A friend of mine told me he sent some files to the cable modem account based on my old pop3 email and when I signed up, even though I had NEVER used, NEVER signed up to the account, in 6 months the mailbox had 4000 pieces of SPAM. So yes, your ISP is passing out your email addy to someone while you are not looking ;)
there is probably 20 million pieces of spam there now ;) - nicepants, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1There are sites that do this too....like spammotel.com. You generate a random e-mail address for every site you register on, and if you start getting spam, just stop the forwarding.
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Sine I run a web server and with that can create disposable emails on a whim I have very few spam mails. Add to that Apaches beautiful spam blocker and you have a winning combination. The main email addresses have a white list, only emails I allow can access these accounts, as a seperate rule the emails are bounced on these accounts. The disposables have spam blockers and I have a spam trap running in case it misses any. Nice! The webservers for clients usually get 4000 spam mails a week, mostly pharma and in particular Canadian Pharma. (*****). I also notice many bounces are from spoofed emails returning. If they hit an active account, they use it to send with.
- ryan83189, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1I have a few junk email accounts, and for fun i signed up to a lot of accounts like these with my name set as the name of the website, so if a spam bot addresses me by name i know the website it came from.
Dear Mr. website website W@tcH$, b1g p3nus p!11s for you. - Nashxsaysx, on 07/03/2008, -1/+27,000 spam emails over a MONTH?
i get that much in a day - blackturtleus, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1With all the spam I receive on the topic of male enhancement, I'm going to need an email account with more storage! While most of the titles of these spam messages are in broken English, there are a few that are almost witty. My favorite was "Legendary Tales of Your Sausage." (Related video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYcHfOUO5tU )
- arlok789, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1I have multiple e-mail addresses. Simple as that. If I want to sign up for some online offer because the marketing mumbo jumbo has me curious, I can without blowing up my inbox. Clicking the monkey just feels so good.
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1No it isn't. Its why we need an international spam law to break these pricks, take their assets and ruin them. If a country does not comply, disconnection! Very easy!
- Mykol225, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1The title is a great example of spam. Improve Sex Life!
- wassim2k, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1Could have done without the first two paragraphs.
- leerayIG88, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1SPAM!? om nom nom nom
- 911review, on 08/09/2008, -0/+1this is not so bad. Its a great tool, to add someone else's email addy (that ticks you off ) to all those sites :)
- just kiddi9ng....
heres an anti-spam tool
place this link on any site, and it kills the SPAM robots DEAD.
http://batcave911.blogspot.com/2007/03/spamkill.ht ... - FriedTurkey, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1If they used hotmail or yahoo they probably got nailed by random generation of email addresses. If they really wanted conclusive results they should of created a new domain for the test.
- inactive, on 12/18/2008, -0/+1http://www.triplecrownnewsletters.com
I actually used to do this as a kiddy AOL'er back in the day before spam filtering. Someone would piss me off and I knew a total of 5 websites that I could use as sign-up portals and it was better than trying to "email bomb" them. Instead of me trying to send/fill their inbox with some "l33t pr0g", all I had to do was sign them up with all these porn websites, and voila - over 5,000 emails in an hour, every hour, for the life of the account. And these places were such scumbags that I sure wasn't ever going to get caught.
Hate to say it, but I would guarantee that it would be much better than any botnet if you needed to bring down a corporations email server. Just input the email addresses of all the company employees to 2,000 or so lists and automate it, and down goes some corporations email server.
http://cleansecolonnow.info - Remlapw, on 02/13/2009, -0/+0That is completely true.. however a botnet is a 1 hit operation.. once you have it set up you can do it to whoever
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