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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. Spam = spy chatter? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is spam even really spam anymore?

    Every now and then I take a look at my gmail spam folder, and none of the messages contain links or even coherent sentences.

    Nothing being sold, nothing being said... What's the point?

    1. Re:Spam = spy chatter? by maxume · · Score: 5, Funny

      My favorite theory is that spammers are making money by selling spamming services to suckers, not by actually selling a product in the spam.

      I guess there is also some chance that there is some botnet out there set to verify that mail reaches addresses, and it is just running out of control.

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  2. Re:ok by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 5, Funny

    And thats only the ones they've caught.

    In fact, almost everyone on the net is a spammer. It's kind of a secret club, where you have to pass a secret trial, to gain your secret right of entry. It's so secret, I shouldn't even be divulging this secret information. If the secret spammers found out, I could get

  3. Re:In the terribly elegant words of... someone? by Opportunist · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes you can. Smith&Wesson released their first debugging tool for it over a century ago. The application remains illegal for some odd reason I don't really understand.

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  4. Re:In the terribly elegant words of... someone? by dissy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes you can. Smith&Wesson released their first debugging tool for it over a century ago. The application remains illegal for some odd reason I don't really understand.

    Ah yes, the original 'point and click' interface for remotely managing stupid.

    And it is illegal now you say? My apologies but from the place I hide to avoid stupid, we don't get many updates on all these new fangled laws.

  5. Re:In the terribly elegant words of... someone? by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes you can. Smith&Wesson released their first debugging tool for it over a century ago. The application remains illegal for some odd reason I don't really understand.

    Ah yes, the original 'point and click' interface for remotely managing stupid.

    And it is illegal now you say? My apologies but from the place I hide to avoid stupid, we don't get many updates on all these new fangled laws.

    It probably violates Amazon's one-click patent.

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  6. Re:In the terribly elegant words of... someone? by cybiko123 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not for debugging, it's for troubleshooting.