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Ahah, this is fun :) But please someone, let google know this exists. I just had a forward refused by gmail because "it contains viruses", and I realize I've forwarded 5 spams before that. I would not want google to think I'm "actually" sending spams :D
Funny thing is that most of the people who downloaded it came from Nigeria and seemed to think that it was a tool that allowed them to scam people. It was quite funny when they put their own contributions and then one of them was talking to a real scammer trying to scam him. Had to delete the thread cause it didn't make much sense though.
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I can't think of a way to make this work with email, but I do think a proof of work like hashcash would be useful for Web APIs instead of using API keys: - Give a 402 reponse if hashcash isn't included or isn't enough, with a link to a price URL - GETting a price URL may return different values depending on identifying information like IP address, user agent, etc. - Prices can be adjusted based on server load, whethe…
I've done a crappy implementation for my blog to fight spammy comments. It works OK, probably more because it's a totally custom thing that isn't worth time for spammers to fight, rather than because it's actually effective. The way I did it is: - When the user focuses in a comment field, the page makes a request to the server asking for initial parameters. - The server returns the number of leading zeroes required,…
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Hello Stavros, I'm not sure I understand. Could you go into more detail? *In all seriousness though (lol): You could have different types of personalities, depending on the email address of the person who doesn't want the spam. Like someone pretending mnesty.com is their work address but is still treating it like a personal message. That way the spammer will disregard the fact that the reply email isn't the same as t…
It's too hard to write generalities, I'm afraid. You can only write about 10 different sentences before you start to repeat yourself (or at least I can't do it). Feel free to send me sentences for me to add!
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Hello Stavros, I'm not sure I understand. Could you go into more detail? *In all seriousness though (lol): You could have different types of personalities, depending on the email address of the person who doesn't want the spam. Like someone pretending mnesty.com is their work address but is still treating it like a personal message. That way the spammer will disregard the fact that the reply email isn't the same as t…
It's too hard to write generalities, I'm afraid. You can only write about 10 different sentences before you start to repeat yourself (or at least I can't do it). Feel free to send me sentences for me to add!
"Hey, I'm switching to my work email. Refresh me on the details again." "I'll have to get back with you. Can you repost a summary?" "I'm sorry, but your emails are hard to read. Could you format them alittle nicer. Thanks!" "Gee, I'd love to help. It's hard to think of how, though."
Most appear to be "Web Developers". Ex: See this Conversation: http://www.mlooper.com/conversations/2912/
Is this common? Do a lot of you get spammed with Indian companies / individuals claiming to do web development? I have received a few, and the funny thing is, NONE of the ones I received even had a Web Site?! How does that work?!!
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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…
How does the scam work, if they 're wiring funds to you ?
https://spa.mnesty.com/ = server not found. Anyone else seeing this?
It has something to do with (the move to) Cloudflare. Refresh once or twice, it will load. https://www.timetaco.com/jaspsa/
I forwarded a single spam email to Spamnesty at 8:46 AM today. Since then, it has been spamming me saying it received the email... Timestamps: 8:46 AM - initial receipt email 8:56 AM 9:11 AM 10:11 AM 12:11 AM The conversations linked in the subsequent receipt emails lack the spammer's email. They only contain the response from the Spamnesty bot.
Yes, this is a known issue: https://gitlab.com/stavros/Spamnesty/issues/6 Can you post the IDs of the emails you received so I can look into the issue?