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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. No Australian spammers! by aussie_a · · Score: 4, Funny

    We're too busy spamming mailinator.com.au e-mail addresses.

  2. Australia is spam free by aussie_a · · Score: 5, Funny

    although that isn't because we're more moral then the rest of the world. It's because we've yet to discover electricity.

  3. 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.

  4. Scientologist's Sea Org by Rogerborg · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's verbal tech. You're downstat. Report for auditing.

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  5. Not the source of spam by Underholdning · · Score: 5, Insightful

    More likely, this is a map of open relays and zombies.

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    1. Re:Not the source of spam by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, it's a map of NT 4.0 and Windows 98 sys...
      Never mind.

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  6. This is your chance by Tribbin · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is your chance to put your village on the map.

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  7. Re:Warning by GigsVT · · Score: 5, Funny

    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. :)

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  8. Where is New Zealand? by tetranz · · Score: 4, Funny

    According to that map, my country has disappeared off the face of the earth.

    1. Re:Where is New Zealand? by aussie_a · · Score: 4, Funny

      Meh, it was never that important to begin with :P (Don't mod this down unless you're a kiwi).

  9. 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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  10. 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.

  11. poking the source of spam? by Red+Flayer · · Score: 4, Funny

    "It's oddly addictive to poke around and see where the spam is actually coming from." "

    Kermit agrees. Miss Piggy unavailable for comment.

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  12. Bill Gates and Google Tools... by MosesJones · · Score: 4, Insightful


    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.

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