Internet Crime Complaint Center
http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx
The CERT Division
http://www.cert.org/
Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/
I once used one-time emails to great effect. Unfortunately my hosting
service configured my mail to accept any username, commonly but incorrectly
known as a "postmaster" account. I once received 400 MB of spam per day!
I strongly recommend one-time emails but dont make them obvious. Use
common given names, but not your own name. Onfigure your mail server to
accept each one you actually use. When the spam gets you down, unsubscribe
from the list, configure a new one-time email, resubscribe. Keep the
now-unused mail user for a while but mark everything as spam. When you
grow weary of doing so delete the username.
Gmail does work but it is impolite to draw so heavily on a free as in beer
resource. If you like Gmail, Google offers a paid service that will
mailhost your own domain.
Javascript email obfuscation is effective because the bots dont even try to
crack it:
http://www.warplife.com/moat/alligators.js
For extra credit, design your own custom software.
If you desire only the very best:
Set up an apparently legitimate site with some innocuous content that
appears to belong to a real business. Provide a sitemap:
http://www.sitemaps.org/
Put your sitemap's URL in your robots.txt:
http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html
supply a permissive one:
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Sitemap: http://www.example.com/urllist.txt.gz
... or...
Sitemap-index: http://www.example.com/sitemap-index.xml.gz
... the sitemap index points to urllist.txt.gz but contains a timestamp
that reduces everyone's load.
Plaster that site with lots of apparently-legitimate email addies.
Submit your homepage URL:
Painless Search Engine Site Submission
http://www.warplife.com/tips/webmaster/site-submission.html
... wait until the spam gets REALLY out of control then install a Teergrube:
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/teergrube.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_(networking)
Onw simple way is that when a spammer tries to deliver mail to your smtp
server you start to cooperate but then pause until just before the timeout,
then issue a continuation character:
-
.. then pause again.
But do _eventually_ accept the mail, that way the spammer wont receive a
bounce.
A few hours after each spam arrives, use cURL or wget to fetch each of its
images. That's how spammers know that you like to read spam. Also "click"
some of their links.
The Coup d' Gras is to drop this domain's emails into a bunch of
"newsletter" subscription forms.
I'll Send You My Bill In The Mail.
Mike
mdcrawf...@gmail.com
--
Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer
mdcrawf...@gmail.com
http://www.warplife.com/mdc/
Every Deity Hath the Insight to Foretell the Future
Yet G-d Almighty Himself Possesseth Not the Power to Undo the Past.
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