On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> Set up a pristine new email address, but DON'T GIVE IT OUT TO
> ANYONE.
> Everytime you get a spam with an unsubscribe link, follow it and
> unsubscribe this new pristine address. Nevermind who the message was
> sent to, I promise the unsub page won't care 99.999% of the time.
> Sit back and watch what happens.
>
> I've heard of people trying this experiment and actually getting spam
> within a few days of dropping these unsubs. Even though the address
> never appeared in a web page, newsgroup, or email message of any kind
> - only in the unusb links.
>
> Seems like a decent way to seed a honeypot address.
Having done precisely this, I can confirm that you -will- get
spam sent to the honeypot address. It didn't happen right away,
but within a week they started trickling in.
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