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

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Post by ChuckMcM »

z3t4 wrote: post #29

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

I would say this is a good one. You can 'seed' it by signing up a bunch of different email addresses for various free offers or other stuff. Fill out web surveys and always put in an email for a chance to win the imaginary amazon gift card, also sign up to a few sites and leave the "let 3rd party offers be sent" or what ever it is. Once you've established 3 - 10 addresses on a few mailing lists the folks will start selling lists amongst each other and in no time flat you'll have millions of emails a day.

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

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Post by jcoffland »

You're going to want more than one email account. Ideally you would setup one or more catch all domains where anything@domain.com dumps in to your collection. This can be set up with Linux and Postfix. Your configuration should not use any blacklists. Then do what others have suggested to spread these addresses around the net.

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

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Post by driverdan »

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).

I run four Tor relays and don't get spammed. I also obfuscate my email by formatting it in a readable, non-standard way that can't be spammed automatically without parsing (eg someone [at] example dot com).

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

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Post by zf00002 »

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).

If the goal is just to get spam, don't do this from an IP you care about. I ran a relay for awhile and got added to blacklists, although I did only manage to find one website that blocked me purely on that basis (scn.sap.com).

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

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Post by tdurden »

orthecreedence wrote: post #32
angersock wrote: post #14

Sign up with GoDaddy. Sign up with Meetup. Sign up with Twitter. Sign up with $tech_startup.

Actually I'd put LinkedIn at the top of the list.

LinkedIn has been the primary source of most of my spam the last year; it deserves to be near the top of any list.
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