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Honeypot For Identifying Email-Harvesters

Posted by timothy on from the off-with-their-heads dept.

Cheese Man writes "Mark Pilgrim describes a simple way to identify email-harvesters: "In each page I serve, I include a bogus email address, encoded with the date of access as well as the host IP address ... This has allowed me to trace spam back to specific hosts and/or robots." There's even a simple one-line example done with PHP. (Thanks to BoingBoing for the links.)"

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  1. Re:I don't know if this would work but... by utd-blaze · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't think a list of phony e-mail adresses is going to put a dent in an industry that will send an e-mail to every possible adress on a popular domain in the hopes that a small fraction of those adresses will belong to real people.

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