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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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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.