To minimize this risk, I suggest mentioning on your page that if a spammer writes and apologizes, you will remove his email address from public view. However, if a spammer finds his or her address on your page, they could get upset and the dispute could escalate. If you have a blog or a website and you're not afraid to expose yourself, you can maintain a special blog post or a web page where you list the addresses of people who have spammed you. The guestbook will be "harvested" for email addresses by the spam gods, and your spammer should receive all kinds of unsollicited information, hopefully to his liking.Īnother top way to retaliate against spam The point is not so much that your spammer will receive messages about puppet shows. To find Russian guestbooks on a particular topic, go to this Google search and add the topic of your choice, for instance, "puppet shows". It is safe to assume that Russian spammers "harvest" Russian sites for email addresses posted there, and send them messages in Russian. Why Russia? That country produces more spam geniuses than the rest of the planet combined. If you don't think your spammer would enjoy the Russian band Aria, you can post a message on a different Russian guestbook. More Russian guestbooks to sign up for spam You can do so easily by pasting the address of Aria's guestbook into the box below, which runs from the top proxy site .Īnd here's the box to paste it into. This will strip your IP address from the post and make it nearly impossible to trace the message back to you. I would add one step: post the message from a "proxy site". "Hi, this person has been in touch with me and I think they might enjoy Aria's music." Go to the fan site for the Russian band Aria, and leave the spammer's email address with a message such as: On one bulletin board, I found a particularly lovely way to implement this technique. So what to do? After researching a wide range of "fight back" ideas, I have settled on one simple technique: posting the spammer's email address on the internet, where a robot will find it and feed it to the spam machine. It explains how to spam the spammer-not a "big spamming conglomerate" (leave that to the pros), but an individual who has breached your personal privacy policy. This tutorial is for those times when you wish to act on revengeful feelings towards email spammers. I guess we have become used to spam robots doing what spam robots do, but we have higher expectations of our fellow human beings.
Strangely, these feelings tend to get triggered when the message comes from a real person, rather than a spam robot. Usually, I feel fine just hitting delete or letting Gmail's spam filter do the job.īut sometimes my inbox receives a spam message that just triggers me, and I think, "I would love for that person to get a taste of his own medicine".
0 kommentar(er)
