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Real-time Spam Map

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-a-cool-idea dept.

iggychaos writes "Mailinator, the free, temporary email service gets a lot of spam (over a million emails a day). And with another cool application of Google maps, the site now shows a Spam Map indicating what sites are spamming mailinator in (nearly) real time. It's oddly addictive to poke around and see where the spam is actually coming from."

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  1. Re:Not all that accurate by filenabber · · Score: 5, Informative

    We threw in a couple joke locations just for fun. The algorithm is sound.

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  2. Invalid Survey by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is really an invalid survey because of tunnels and portals that most spammers use. This link gives a far better representation of the overall spam locations in the world. They actually trace backed the mail to its origin to map where it was coming from.
    On a side note there are far better services out there similar to mailinator like shortmail.net and pookmail.com that should be checked out.