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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. 5-step plan: by The+Master+Control+P · · Score: 0, Redundant

    1) Set up a honeypot to get info about spammers
    2) WHOIS them
    3) Send E-Mail saying "give me $1000 or I sign you up to every known spam list and catalog order on the planet"
    4) ???
    5) Profit!