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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. Middle of the Atlantic? by strider44 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I see one spam message from "The Middle of the Atlantic". Damn those spam sending cruise ships! On the other hand, it's perhaps the first spam message that I'm disappointed that I can't read the body of the message.

  2. Purpose by mudbogger · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "You know if you give it, you're gambling with your privacy. On the other hand, you do want at least one message from that person. The answer is to give them a mailinator address." --from the website

    Isn't that gambling with your privacy as well though, to store the email you want to receive in an inbox that anybody can access? Other than that it's a pretty cool site/idea; however, I think a lot of people have email accounts already that they dedicate to web usage.

  3. Wow... no FL? by Alizarin+Erythrosin · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm surprised. Most spammer businesses seem to be based out of Boca Raton, FL (a fact that makes me pissed off, being a Floridian). No little pips in FL... yet. I guess I should wait a few days.

    Either that or they still use open relays (or even zombie computers at this point), so they won't show up.

    --
    There are only 10 kinds of people in this world... those who understand binary and those who don't
  4. Where are the Nigerian 419 spammers? by gsasha · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't see anything coming from Africa...

  5. Far east spammers do not care at all by Ilgaz · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I am a spamcop user and for 3 months I noticed some stuff.

    1) The legit businesses, e.g. Real.com, Allume.com or any company with a valid record does NOT spam. Its basically a lie.

    2)Far East ISP's, especially China,Taiwan are kind of "allowing" zombied machines.

    Not paranoia at all. A much more valid, checked realtime spam stats is at:
    http://www.spamcop.net/spamstats.shtml

    As a spamcop mail customer one thing bugs me is. People, especially newbies learned that service and they use bogus spamcop.net addresses when they sign up a legit service like product updates from Allume Systems (Stuffit etc). Result: As a customer of them I can't use my IMAP mail and have to use Yahoo.com as spamcop is simply rejected.

  6. Apple.com?! by erroneus · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Did I just see what I thought I saw? There's an SMTP server responsible for relaying at least 400 spams so far. How interesting. Perhaps someone smarter than I could identify this server further to determine what it is running and if it has been hacked or is merely an open relay?

    IP address: 17.254.6.27
    DNS Name: chatbox-smtp-out11.apple.com
    Location: Cupertino, CA, US
    Emails: 400

  7. Re:No Australian spammers! by baadger · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Can't a 2D map be distorted in such a way as to correct for this?

    If so why the hell isn't it.

  8. Already bookmarked! by tchernobog · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Boys, they give us IP addresses of spammers! You know what that means?
    Finally we can seek revenge! Where is my nmap? Let's teach them a lesson...

    -- My name's Inigo Montoya. You killed my father, prepare to die!

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    42.
  9. Re:Australia is spam free by digitalchinky · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Australians have started using 'then' instead of 'than'? : )

    (Yes, I'm Australian as well)