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Security Firm Creates Chatbot To Respond To Scam Emails On Your Behalf (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Chatbots. They're usually a waste of your time, so why not have them waste someone else's instead? Better yet: why not have them waste an email scammer's time. That's the premise behind Re:scam , an email chatbot operated by New Zealand cybersecurity firm Netsafe. Next time you get a dodgy email in your inbox, says Netsafe, forward it on to me@rescam.org, and a proxy email address will start replying to the scammer for you, doing its very utmost to waste their time.
Anything that increases the cost of spam scams relative to the returns is worth investigating to see if it's practical, because ultimately you have to attack the economics to kill the beast.
I'd actually like to see this run on my local system, though.
We need more of such ideas.
... got quite surprised with the persistence and poor-understanding skills of some spammers/scammers. I was doing it manually and just for fun (+ kind of contributing to reduce crap). I think that this was one of the first times when I realised about how deep stupidity can go. Although I prefer the current much-clearer-ideas myself, some times I kind of miss those moments when I was still expecting other outputs rather than stupidity always remaining stupidity.
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The skeptic in me says that this is a great way to harvest legitimate e-mail addresses for a future purpose.
Can I program my mail system to automatically forward spam?
See: http://www.jollyrogertelco.com/ . Keep telemarketers on the phone talking to a bot.
just start replying using lots of fake email addresses and sending them what starts out as clear readable text that quickly degenerates in to nonsense like lorem ipsum or something like that
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The only reason these phishing scams work is because they are so low effort on the part of the scammer. You just vomit spam and then handle the responders.
This idea will turn the tables on them by making them do the same thing they're trying to do to others. Of course, it will turn into a cat and mouse game as the scammers figure out what's going on, and implement a cheap test to weed out the automation as quickly as possible.
Of course, then I wonder if the scammers will start automating their own responses... it'll be like watching cleverbot talk to itself.
I thought that many of the chat scams are via chatbots already. So won't this be like Google Go AI playing Google Go AI ?
That'll be the future of the internet. A bunch of angry AI bots battling it out in a deadly embrace. That will be how the world ends !!
Someone needs to do a Cat Facts bot to keep spammers busy
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskRe...
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Like that will lower the spam sent.... That sounds more like distributed email DoS.
Scamming is a huge "industry" on social media. The worst part is, there are various tactics that could be automated to detect and ban (or occupy) the people involved in it.
They all use the same stock images of celebrities, the same love-letter copypastas, and if facebook can snoop enough to link a privacy-aware hooker with her clients, it can sure as hell figure out who's logging in with 20 other people in a cafe in Nigeria.
They will continue to rake in tens of millions every year (low estimate) for one simple reason: facebook doesn't care. Neither does anyone else in the industry.
Holy fuck - the bot is actually more coherent than the scammer.
Most often the sending and reply to addresses are spoofed, and you would be "entertaining" the wrong party.
I was one of the early internet vigilante Paul Vixie Spam Fighters. I spent hours researching each turd that landed in my inbox and complaining to all the site hosting and system operators connected with the tripe.
I discovered that besides getting my name on a spammers black list there was no gain, my hours spent were squandered as the vulnerable spammers quit sending me crap new spammers sprung up or older spammers got smarter, A zero gain the turdlets still found their way to my box.
In the end the laws and system policies that are supposed to protect me don't, just like my phone number on the "National do not call list" protects me from robo-callers.
The bitter end is the scammers/spammers have money to lobby legislation and I have none to spend on a problem I should not have.
So to preserve my mental health and prioritize my time my only option is to hit the delete button. The services I pay for have already been hijacked for someone else's profit, if I add any extra effort beyond using the delete button it only increases the cost to me without any satisfaction or gain on a solution.
Given the uncertainty of the sender or reply to address I cannot be a party to adding to the problem by sending garbage replies to an unconfirmed and possibly innocent address. Wasting my time and someone else's time, wasting my time complaining about someone else's waste of resources I pay for, is a waste. There is no win.
If I get a human on my phone I at least get the satisfaction of asking some sorry looser why they are calling a number that is posted on the national do not call list!
This I know is a real burden on the scammer and I can derive some measure of satisfaction from tying up their equipment and irritating a human and wasting their time (while they waste mine). Sending email replies is not the same and the cost to the asshole is much less than tying up a phone line and wasting an operators time.
This is just a way to harvest good email addresses so what are they going to do with the address once they have them?
This would be pointless.
The bulk of spam I receive has spoofed or obviously invalid sender addresses or my own address as the sender in the header.
They rely on web bugs, clicking on or opening malicious content.
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I used to have an acquaintance a few years back who was basically an honest person but with the heart of a larcenist and confidence man.
He derived an enormous amount of sadistic pleasure messing with these people. He would spend hours replying to emails string them on for as long as he could.
Telemarketers were like crack or heroin to him. He had a solid gold tongue for bull shit. He would gleefully torment telemarketers trying to see how long he could keep them on the phone.
The best part was he could do several convincing vices like different old ladies, old men, little kid, teen age girls and cartoon characters voices.
Listening in on his calls were historical. We would sit in 1 room with the speaker phone on mute while he did his thing in another room some of the best entertainment ever.
Any response (from any address) confirms to the spammer that the email account they sent to exists and is being read. Using a service like this will result in you getting more spam, not less.
Forward your spam to sp@mnesty.com . Hilarity ensues, once in a while (low response rate).
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Now if we could get our spam filters to automatically route spam to the spambot, we'd really have something. Either a significant number of spammers would go out of business, or the universe would enter a recursive sequence and pop like a balloon.
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In the day, we got chewed up when we mailbombed the scammers, is it OK now?
why is google delivering phishing emails?? they are sent to the LOL spam folder. well that's DELIVERING the email, why? I have reported 1000s of phishing emails to google email and ya know what they do? they put a stupid tag on it this MAY be phishing scam instead of just deleting it or allow us users to truly BLOCK an address or domain. i get tons of .jp phishing emails why cant we block them and by block i mean delete so it never getting into any folder ya ask me google in league with these phishing scammers by delivering them. when anyone blocks an email address with gmail its just moved to the spam folder that's not blocking.
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I guess James will have to shift to making videos about being replaced by robots....
No, it shouldn't. The From: address is almost always taken at random from the same database where the To: address came from!
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I bet they are using the APK ANN chat bot that gets stuck in loops and repeats itself continuously.
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I tried to email it, but it haven't responded