Ask HN: How to get lots of spam, fast? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How to get lots of spam, fast?

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Post by FabianBeiner » Sat, May 30, 2015, 6:00 PM UTC

abusix provides this: https://spamfeedme.abusix.com/

Re: Ask HN: How to get lots of spam, fast?

#22

Post by mattkrea » Sat, May 30, 2015, 6:00 PM UTC

vdaniuk wrote: post #15

mattkrea wrote: post #4

Host a tor relay. I run two and put my email up as the maintainer and now I consistently get over 200 messages a day (I've since shut down my private mail server it was so bad).

Thank you for supporting privacy efforts.

Thank Snowden and Appelbaum. It was because of them that I started up these relays.

Re: Ask HN: How to get lots of spam, fast?

#23

Post by JoshTriplett » Sat, May 30, 2015, 6:08 PM UTC

FabianBeiner wrote: post #21

abusix provides this: https://spamfeedme.abusix.com/

Something like this, or another service with a large corpus of recent spam, seems preferable to seeking it out. The latter will not give you the kind of spam that arrives at harvested emails.

Re: Ask HN: How to get lots of spam, fast?

#24

Post by philjr » Sat, May 30, 2015, 6:08 PM UTC

TREC has a spam corpus albeit dated at this point

http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~gvcormac/treccorpus/

92k messages, 52k of which are labelled as spam messages in the 05 corpus. Totals 300mb or so

Re: Ask HN: How to get lots of spam, fast?

#25

Post by emilioolivares » Sat, May 30, 2015, 6:09 PM UTC

Sign up for every retail coupon/rewards program. My wife does this, gets 50+ spam emails per day.

Re: Ask HN: How to get lots of spam, fast?

#26

Post by _hoa8 » Sat, May 30, 2015, 6:26 PM UTC

I did research in this area with the amazing Jeff Huang [1].

(Here's the findings: https://medium.com/@karan/how-do-spammers-harvest-your-e-mai...)

Answer to your question: https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/2000/0*q9f3570SPFf...

> Notably, spammy mailing lists send the most spam. These mailing lists include sites that promise you free credit scores, or insurance quotes, or free ipads etc. These sites stink of spam, but people still continue to give them their email addresses.

[1] http://jeffhuang.com/

Re: Ask HN: How to get lots of spam, fast?

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, May 30, 2015, 6:29 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: How to get lots of spam, fast?

#28

Post by listic » Sat, May 30, 2015, 7:02 PM UTC

Would a pre-assembled corpus of spam be ok for your needs? https://www.google.ru/search?ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=spam+corpus

Re: Ask HN: How to get lots of spam, fast?

#29

Post by z3t4 » Sat, May 30, 2015, 7:18 PM UTC

Setup your email server to "swallow all". I did this and after a few years I got around one million spam mails per day.

I guess that if the emails never bounce they will keep sending new stuff to you. It's like saying "yes, yes, yes" to a sales person, they will just keep adding more stuff :P

Re: Ask HN: How to get lots of spam, fast?

#30

Post by grapeshot » Sat, May 30, 2015, 7:25 PM UTC

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