Love it, good work!
Show HN: Spamnesty: Waste spammers' time
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#22I had a friend who tried messing with spammers and then was hit with a massive DDOS.
Brb cloudflare.
EDIT: Cloudflare has been enabled!
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#23This is great and seems to work, check out this thread:
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#24This could works in short run as long as this type of service stay as niche and not too popular. Spammers always, always have a creative work around it. I imagined a counter measure from them by build a bot detector that will spam back the spambot and one hell of continuos email loop doesn't do any good to our internet traffic.
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#25Great idea. You could generate a DailyWTF-esque website with all the conversations.
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#26I have never understood what were the goals of these messages. People saying they have a fund of millions. Is everything arranged for me to send money to them? Simpĺe as that?
I half-fell for one of these once. I was a teaching assistant with my contact info posted on our department page, and a woman in Africa wrote seeking a tutor for her son who would allegedly be doing a summer program at my university to prepare for enrollment in the fall. It all seemed reasonable until she wanted to wire funds to my account. I told her to have her son pay me in person, and she never wrote again! This was a pretty good scam because there were no millions involved, and she'd done her research to match the pitch to the mark.
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#27Finally an actually useful application for AI!
No perfect result is required and this is also not something you want actual humans to do.
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#28Really cool. Two remarks: 1) If lots of people start using this, spammers might learn to avoid wasting time with Mnesty's CEO. Having a few more fake companies would help. 2) The bot could probably be made a lot smarter with some natural language processing. But it seems to fill its purpose pretty well already. I think this just shows how desperate for leads spammers are.
I would also suggest giving the spammers more intense work to do. Like a pdf form for new suppliers that they have to download, fill out, sign, scan back in, and return. Or maybe submit to a form page with a horribly difficult captcha.
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#29I have never understood what were the goals of these messages. People saying they have a fund of millions. Is everything arranged for me to send money to them? Simpĺe as that?
Basically, they spammer is hoping to milk you for "fees" that they will say are necessary in order to free up/transfer the money that they have waiting for you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Prisoner
My God. There really is nothing new under the Sun...
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#30How is the bot tailoring the replies, for example
> Hello, I have wired the funds you asked for. Could we please proceed to the next stage? Daniel Wong CEO, MNesty, LLC
Is that a canned response? This happens later on in the thread (does it recognise that the topic of the conversation is "funds" rather than say "product")