Hi All,
OK I've been doing some sociological analysis of the spam I've been
getting on my honeypot, Bays feeder email boxes (dangerous, I know)
and I've come up with what I think MIGHT be a way to fight spam
that I wanted to run up the flagpole.
We all know ONE basic thing about spam:
Spammers send it BECAUSE IT WORKS. That is, it gets OPENED and read.
Now obviously anyone reading this list probably has the smarts to
not be reading spam. But we all know that SOMEONE must be reading it,
otherwise the spammers would give up and find some other criminal
activity to engage in because it wouldn't work.
So, my idea on killing spam is this:
1) Build a "spam victim archetype" filter.
2) Feed titles of current news articles into it
3) Modify the output of high scoring current news articles
into common spam titles.
4) Feed that into Bays as spam.
I think that when spammers create titles for spam, they MUST be already
using a "spam victim archetype" program.
For example, have you EVER gotten a piece of spam that said
something like:
"Doctors find that eating lots of green vegetables is healthy"
or
"Trump says if you work hard and save money you can be financially secure"
By contrast how many times have we all gotten spam that says
stuff like
"Doctors find a food you can eat that makes you a stud in the bedroom"
or
"Learn Trumps secrets of making lots of money"
Clearly, the spam victim archetype must LIKE titles that imply they
can eat 200 pounds of sugar a day, have enormous junk that makes
women jump all over them, and get a fat bank account by lying around
and being a lazy-ass.
They must DISLIKE titles that imply they can be thin and healthy with
a moderate diet, and have to work hard to be financially secure.
There's a PATTERN in there folks! There is definitely a pattern in
spam titles. I think we can all see it and it must work because it's
snaring people.
I have noticed that spam tracks current events. When there are
elections we get a ton of spam about elections. When Megyn Kelly
leaves a job we get a ton of spams about that. Clearly the
spammers must have realized they need to keep generating new
grist for the mill they cannot re-use old spam titles and get a
response.
So, I think they are feeding titles of current events news stories
into an AI program that has a victim archetype in it and what gets
scored highly, is fed into a title bank then sent out the door.
All we have to do is get there first - that is, develop the same
victim archetype, feed it the same input from current events,
and feed the output into the bayes learner in an effort to guess
the titles the spammers are going to use BEFORE THEY USE THEM.
We don't have to wait any longer to get the spams, we can stop them
before the first one is received.
Do you think this approach might work?
Ted
