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I had a friend who tried messing with spammers and then was hit with a massive DDOS.
Brb cloudflare. EDIT: Cloudflare has been enabled!
If you are using the free plan, note that you aren't really getting DDoS protection. They offer "I'm under attack" mode which can be bypassed easily and it does not protect against l3 and l4 attacks.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduL71_GKzHHk4hLga0nO...
Really 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.
> - we want to give you $10,500,000.00 !!!
> - thanks, but it's out of our budget. Can you make an effort?
I can only imagine the spammer reaction :D "Wait... wat?"
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Brb cloudflare. EDIT: Cloudflare has been enabled!
The free plan or a paid plan? If you are using the free plan, note that you aren't really getting DDoS protection. They offer "I'm under attack" mode which can be bypassed easily and it does not protect against l3 and l4 attacks.
I had a friend who tried messing with spammers and then was hit with a massive DDOS.
Was your friend working for Blue Frog [1]? I always thought it interesting that no one seriously tried to replicate a tool so good at its job that spammers were actually scared. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Frog
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My God. There really is nothing new under the Sun...
Were you trying to find innovation in scams? I imagine all these are at least thousands of years old :P
Very nice, and a great test bed for AI code. Lots of low hanging fruit, like follow-ups to specific branches of conversation, extracting certain information from the spammers replies to make the answers look more real, etc. Someone should organize a competition to see who can create the longest running conversation (or the funniest one).
Yeah, that's an interesting aspect of it for me. I'll have to clean up the code a bit, because it's very "weekend project" quality, but it's an interesting way forward.