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Spamfighting Since the Death of MakeLoveNotSpam?

Posted by Cliff on from the keep-your-junk-out-of-my-inbox-KTHX dept.

vacuum_tuber asks: "The now-defunct Lycos anti-spamsite screen saver, MakeLoveNotSpam, was extremely well received despite the whines and hand wringing from the no-one-should-ever-actively-defend-themselves crowd. There was speculation after its demise that Open Source spam-punishing tools would emerge. Other tools such as SpamVampire, LadVampire (punishes fake bank sites), Spam Research Tool and others were mentioned with increasing frequency, but there has been no coherent followup to gauge what people are doing since the death of the Lycos screen saver. What are you doing that you think is effective in punishing spammers or their spam-site sponsors?"

4 of 352 comments (clear)

  1. Unsolicited Commando by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nice tool to jam spammers...http://www.astrobastards.net/uc/

  2. Turn images off by Neil+Blender · · Score: 3, Informative

    Turn images off. And filter on <img src=. And tell your Mom to.

  3. Re:Spamvampire works by Matt+Perry · · Score: 3, Informative
    I use Spamvampire almost constantly. It works great. It sucks up their bandwidth, and while it doesn't DOS them, it does make the business of spam a hell of a lot less financially viable.
    Wouldn't local, transparent HTTP proxies put in place by ISPs, such as DSL and dialup providers, prevent SpamVampire from being effective?
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  4. Forward the spam, but not just to the BSA by IrishMASMS · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are a few organizations & companies that would love for you to forward on your spam; and Spamcop [http://www.spamcop.net/] would love to help you LART the headers & spam web hosts.

    You can tell where the spam comes from; or at least identify the web sites they are spamvertizing. Yes, it is sometimes a BPITA - hence why I use spamcop to help auto LART the headers/email for me. I know with squirrel mail any spam you can auto forward to your spamcop account to be LARTed.

    Normally I LART anything that gets past the spam filters, thinking that anything that does get caught is by the big spamhouses. I also report my spam to the Feds for action:
    "FTC" uce@ftc.gov,
    "US Postal Inspectors service" fraud@uspis.gov

    These folks ask for spam, to either tweak their anti-spam tools or for internal investigation:
    "junk_brightmail.com" junk@brightmail.com,
    "SendUsSpam" spam@sendusspam.com,
    "Spamarchive" submit@spamarchive.org,
    "Spamrecycle" spamrecycle@chooseyourmail.com,

    Specific countries have anti-spam efforts:
    "Spam from China" spam@ccert.edu.cn,
    "Spam from Korea" spamcop@kisa.or.kr,

    As already mentioned - any spam offering grey market (aka cheap) software?
    "BSA" software@bsa.org,
    "SBA" piracy@spa.org

    Any 419 scams?
    "419@nigeriapolice.org" 419@nigeriapolice.org,
    "Central Bank of Nigeria" info@cenbank.org,
    "thoselads_scamorama.com" thoselads@scamorama.com,
    "Treasury Nigeraian scam reporting" 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov

    Child pr0n?
    "FBI" iitf.tampa@fbi.gov,
    "FBI_Child_porn" complaints.detroit@fbi.gov

    Any stock or securities spam?
    "cyberfraud@nasaa.org" cyberfraud@nasaa.org,
    "nasd Penny stock fraud submittal" ombuds@nasd.com,
    "Securities fraud SEC" enforcement@sec.gov

    Any food or drug spam?
    "FDA_Complaint" webcomplaints@ora.fda.gov,
    "FDA_Complaint2" webmail@oc.fda.gov

    FYI: there are some anti spam groups I am a member of, where a little bit of research dug up these agencies. It is easy enough to set up an auto forward on your spam folder to report & LART the spammer scum. ;)

    HTH!