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Project Honey Pot Traps Billionth Spam

Posted by timothy on from the spam-sequestration dept.

EastDakota writes "Project Honey Pot today announced that it had trapped its 1 billionth spammer. To celebrate, the team behind the largest community sourced project tracking online fraud and abuse released a full rundown of statistics on the last five years of spam. Findings include: spam drops 21% on Christmas Day and 32% of New Year's Day; the most spam is sent on Mondays, the least on Saturdays; spammers found at least 956 different ways to spell VIAGRA (e.g., VIAGRA, V1AGRA, V1@GR@, V!AGRA, VIA6RA, etc.) in mail received by the Project; and much more."

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  1. In the terribly elegant words of... someone? by Sir_Lewk · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can't fix stupid.

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    1. Re:In the terribly elegant words of... someone? by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Informative

      Hmm. I'm not sure that destroying something really qualifies as fixing it...

      Dunno, but we'll soon see, there's an experiment with this method currently being tested on our economy.

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  2. Re:ok by idontgno · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Spam Club is sending a message. That posting was the /. equivalent of a horse's head in your bed.

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  3. Re:ok by Dan+Ost · · Score: 3, Informative

    If my understanding is correct, project honey pot puts bogus emails in webpages and any mail sent to those email addresses are, pretty much by definition, spam.

    If that's true, then that would indicate that your machine is sending email to honey pot addresses.

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