Slashdot Mirror
Real-time Spam Map
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."
We're too busy spamming mailinator.com.au e-mail addresses.
although that isn't because we're more moral then the rest of the world. It's because we've yet to discover electricity.
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.
Looks like they count iTunes New Music Tuesday newsletter as spam.
Does this mean we sign up Steve for a bunch of catalogs and junk mail to be sent to his home address?
And why do almost all of the points on the map say 100 Emails received? Seems odd.
I think this is not exactly what it's cracked up to be.
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." - Epictetus
That's verbal tech. You're downstat. Report for auditing.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
You see the spam coming out of turkey? "Enough with the Thanksgiving Jokes already" or something like that-- pretty funny
no god is good
More likely, this is a map of open relays and zombies.
Underholdning.info
This is your chance to put your village on the map.
If you mod this up, your slashdot background will turn into a beautiful sunset!
Well what else are you going to do when you're sending out spam and surrounded by \/1AGR4?
Content Management System: A pretentious way of saying "text editor."
I think someone's having a bit of fun with the map. I got a spot smack in the middle of Greenland, with this message:
Subject: Um, the brochure said it was GREEN here
IP address: 1.2.3.4
DNS Name: greenland.aintgreen.com
Location: Greenland
Emails: lots
Win dain a lotica, en vai tu ri silota
I personally think anyone that's unable to cope with seeing certain combinations of the latin alphabet probably aren't mature enough to be surfing the web, myself.
:)
Yeah, fuck them.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
"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.
According to that map, my country has disappeared off the face of the earth.
Parent poster may have potty words in his post.
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
I don't see anything coming from Africa...
Use one of mailinator's alternate domains!
Are you a Candy Addict?
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.
Ugh! Formatting! *slaps forehead*
There seem to be a lot of jokes on there. It must be by the mailinator staff.
Subject: Um, the brochure said it was GREEN here
IP address: 1.2.3.4
DNS Name: greenland.aintgreen.com
Location: Greenland
Emails: lots
(Pin in middle of Greenland)
Subject: Mom, a funny thing happened on the way to the store
IP address: 1.2.3.4
DNS Name: helpme.ocean.com
Location: Middle of the ocean
Emails: lots
(pin somewhere in the Pacific)
Then this one
Subject: Send money. I had a few beers then...this
IP address: 1.2.3.4
DNS Name: too.much.beer.com
Location: Middle of the Atlantic
Emails: lots
(pin somewhere int he Atlantic)
We threw in a couple joke locations just for fun. The algorithm is sound.
Are you a Candy Addict?
I suspect the reason for the large number of Apple emails is idiots who download iTunes and supply a one-shot email address instead of simply unchecking the `send me iTunes newsletters' box on the download page.
I am TheRaven on Soylent News
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.
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
"It's oddly addictive to poke around and see where the spam is actually coming from." "
Kermit agrees. Miss Piggy unavailable for comment.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
Ummm so when Bill said that they wanted to give people the tools to organise the information....
How is Google not providing the tools? Seems to me that Google is providing better tools, just not requiring people to buy and operating system to use them.
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
It needs a mod for a graphic of the source IP being destroyed (nuke?) when it recognizes it as spam and adds to the > null list. That would be awesome ;)
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
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!
42.
China is where the "bullet-proof hosting" services are mostly housed. You can't shake a stick at a group of spamvertised sites without hitting Chinanet. The emails themselves don't come from China because lots of intelligent mail admins block the whole country.
I too have felt the cold finger of injustice.
Brian (a mailinator developer)
Are you a Candy Addict?
We only show the top spammers and we classify spam a bit differently than most - we are all about self-preservation. If one guy sends a Viagra email, that isn't spam for us. If he sends 1000, it's spam. It's not about the subject, it's the volume. p. Brian - a mailinator developer
Are you a Candy Addict?
you need to check the javascript permissions. Usually enable the "Change Images", and it will work.
So how long unitl the Spammers simply block the mailinator.com domain? Or websites refuse to take email addresses from that domain?
From the FAQ:
What are alternate domains?
Every now and then you bump into a website that does not permit email addresses at mailinator.com (scoundrels!). Don't fret. There is more than one domain pointing to the mailinator system. If you send email to one of the listed alternate domains - it will come to mailinator.com just as if you sent it directly. For example, stinky@mailinator.com is EXACTLY the same as stinky@fakeinformation.com (which are exactly the same as any other domain in the list).
Awhile back, some spammer list picked up my email address as someplace to fake sending spam FROM. (Not the mail servers, just the "from" line of the email.) Since then, I get more "Your mail has been blocked due to it likely being spam" and bounces from non-existant addresses than actual spam. Of course, I count all those emails as spam themselves.
Please, if you have an auto-replyer to spam, turn it off. You're just harassing other people with your meta-spam.
E pluribus unum
Check out Antarctica for an easter egg.