Re: Re: spambothoney: script to pollute spammer's databases

From: Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 19:33:59 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: spambothoney: script to pollute spammer's databases
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Hello, On 12/09/2003 09:42 AM, Leif K-Brooks wrote:
The latest spamming strategies consist on using valid sender addresses of inocent companies. Therefore, when you make up invalid addresses, all the bounces will go to the innocent companies mail servers. The more invalid addresses you make up the more harm you cause to innocent companies.
My strategy against spam is giving invalid addresses at my domain name, all of which redirect to abuse@ftc.gov. No innocent servers besides my own are harmed, and the spam is given to an authority who will (in theory) do something about it.
Are you sure that will not get yourself into problems with FTC for forwarding SPAM? Even if that nothing happens, I am afraid that soon nobody will be listening to messages sent to that abuse@ftc.gov address. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/

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