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The trick works in analog too. Just stuff the pre-paid business reply mail with other junk mail.
That’s a classic. http://bash.org/?127039 I do occasionally wonder if it would still work, but most business reply mail type spam has been supplanted by email nowadays.
As a bonus - write yourself a little browser script that accumulates companies you do this to so that you can sign every spammer up for every other spammer's mail.
I couldn’t get them to stop calling me or cancel the account.
So I changed my phone number to their support line number. Never got another call.
15 years later I wonder if they still call themselves.
Or state-level intelligence addresses / TLAs of various stripes.
I wonder if most sites maintain any of the following addresses or not for externally incoming mail: hostmaster@ postmaster@ webmaster@ dns-admin@ info@ contact@ root@ (And if they do, if anyone is actually reading the mail coming to those addresses.) I used to but I got so much spam and 0 actually legit mails to these addresses on my own domains so I stopped accepting externally incoming mails for those names/aliases…
These types of addresses are actually used by corporate anti-spam software and they are called "honeypots". The idea being you setup a inbox with no public email address and report any IP Addresses sending it emails. There is no legitimate reason someone should be emailing these addresses, so it's an obvious flag that someone is being naughty.
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These types of addresses are actually used by corporate anti-spam software and they are called "honeypots". The idea being you setup a inbox with no public email address and report any IP Addresses sending it emails. There is no legitimate reason someone should be emailing these addresses, so it's an obvious flag that someone is being naughty.
There are plenty of legit reasons to be mailing some of those addresses.
The design of this blog is delightfully readable: no popups, no banners, no FOUC as I wait for a beautiful webfont to load.
Except for the "beautiful webfront" bit, that was my experience too - no popups/banners/ads while waiting patiently for it to finally load the "Connection timed out" page.
So I set up my .forward to bounce spam from that company right back to any email addresses I can find for them and their ISP. Every spam I get, I add another copy to the list. The folks at xertog.com currently get 8 copies each to their noc@, sales@ etc for every spam they send me.
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I would also recommend naming yourself Viagra, Cialis or CBD.
This is actually kind of clever, but only if you give us a real email address. We will often take your name and insert them into emails (for some dumb reasons around personalization supposedly increasing opens). But an email being stuffed full of spam words is a good way to get it flagged by anti-spam software and potentially hurt our sender reputation score. You would probably have to do it en masse and use real inb…
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The zero-width char seems to be a good candidate, thanks !
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