On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 09:39:29AM -0500, Frank Pineau wrote: > As long as people continue to respond to their spam by sending > them money, then what message are they expected to get? That > spamming makes money? I'd say they got that message.
An idea I've been flirting with for a while ... You know how the screwworm fly was eradicated in the US, right? Release gadzillions of sterilized flies, so that the probability of a fertile fly finding another fertile fly are vanishingly small, and bingo, no more of these nasty little parasites. Speaking of nasty little parasites, imagine a 419 spammer. He gets 100,000 "bites" to his spam. Wow, he must have hit the jackpot! Except... no. 99,999 of them are fake, computer-generated "leads", which lead nowhere, but he can't *tell* they lead nowhere until he tries to follow up on them. Could he ever find the real moron? What would it take to automate such a thing in spam-traps? On the simple side, an Eliza-like "turn offer into request for more information" algorithm. On the complex side, a script to fetch the spamvertized web page and place a realistic-looking request for more information. (With other spammers' email address information, of course.) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
