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A little trick to spam the spammers (2021)

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Re: A little trick to spam the spammers (2021)

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Post by timwis »

the_biot wrote: post #58

When I get spam from a local-ish company I always send an abuse mail to their ISP or email provider. Sometimes it's ignored and I keep getting spam from that particular bunch of shitheads. 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…

Aren’t you worried about your own domain getting flagged for spam since you’re effectively (forwarding) sending spam?

Re: A little trick to spam the spammers (2021)

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Post by sacrosancty »

I used to get spam from a Chinese exporter who conveniently included their actual address in the emails. One day I happened to be visiting their city and went to their office and asked them to unsubscribe me in person. The lady was very confused and first thought I wanted to buy something. I showed her the spam on my phone and she agreed but didn't bother actually removing me. Just seemed to think I was a bit stupid for travelling so far (I was also a foreigner) to complain about a spam. It was interesting to see what those companies look like in real life though - an office filled with piles of widgets and cartons of deliveries everywhere. These Chinese exporter spammers do tend to be legitimate businesses and they can actually provide good cheap access to manufacturers but they harvest emails from everywhere if there's any hint you might work in a related industry.

Re: A little trick to spam the spammers (2021)

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Post by Akronymus »

hinkley wrote: post #71
temp0826 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Something similar happened (multiple times?) when I worked at AWS when someone decided to send a mass email to literally the entire company and people inevitably reply-all enough to clog the system and bring it to its knees. Many confused people were replying "UNSUBSCRIBE" (again, to the whole company) as if it would take them off

Then you get a group of people panicked about the panic who start replying all saying please stop replying all to this email, and then people replying to them to point out how they are just making the problem worse...

Or a few people have autoreplies that they are out of the office...

Re: A little trick to spam the spammers (2021)

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Post by wizofaus »

sodimel wrote: post #65
wizofaus wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you're speaking about l3m.in I removed unused chars from the font I load (using the super tool on fontsquirrel website) in order to make it lighter. I save the banner images in webp format too (with a liiiittle bit of gaussian blur in order to reduce the size even more) :P The real problem here is my internet connection ; my top upload speed seems to be something like 100-200ko/s, which isn't very much when there'…

The link is to a txt file! Anyway the archive link someone else posted seems to work fine (I still can't load the original link).

Re: A little trick to spam the spammers (2021)

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Post by dylan604 »

nonameiguess wrote: post #74
temp0826 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Something similar happened (multiple times?) when I worked at AWS when someone decided to send a mass email to literally the entire company and people inevitably reply-all enough to clog the system and bring it to its knees. Many confused people were replying "UNSUBSCRIBE" (again, to the whole company) as if it would take them off

This happened to the entire US federal government in 2014. Someone reply-all'd a mailing from the General Fund Enterprise Business System notification asking to be taken off the list, and it escalated as then thousands of people who didn't realize they were on this list did the same thing, then got worse when smart asses reply-all'd telling other people not to reply-all.

Part of the problem is from admins creating lists and putting users on them without user knowing anything about it. Can you blame users for being confused and seeking to get off a list in the only way they know how? IT Admins bare blame in these incidents. The users just make it fun for everyone but IT, but IT hopefully sees the fun later when they aren't running around putting out the fire

Re: A little trick to spam the spammers (2021)

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Post by dylan604 »

sacrosancty wrote: post #92

I used to get spam from a Chinese exporter who conveniently included their actual address in the emails. One day I happened to be visiting their city and went to their office and asked them to unsubscribe me in person. The lady was very confused and first thought I wanted to buy something. I showed her the spam on my phone and she agreed but didn't bother actually removing me. Just seemed to think I was a bit stupid…

There's no better motivater than having an upset customer in your presence. I have camped outside the office of someone until a situation was resolved.

Re: A little trick to spam the spammers (2021)

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Post by dylan604 »

Avamander wrote: post #33
legitster wrote: post #18

I run marketing email databases. This is cute, but it doesn't actually do anything in most systems - either the employees all already get the marketing emails or there is a system-wide rule to suppress against the email domain. If you actually want to (potentially) break something, try submitting some obscure characters or malformed html into some fields. Blank spaces in emails can particularly be a nuisance. And if…

I would also recommend naming yourself Viagra, Cialis or CBD.

I want to have my name legally changed to Spam Likely

Re: A little trick to spam the spammers (2021)

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Post by sodimel »

wizofaus wrote: post #94
sodimel wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're speaking about l3m.in I removed unused chars from the font I load (using the super tool on fontsquirrel website) in order to make it lighter. I save the banner images in webp format too (with a liiiittle bit of gaussian blur in order to reduce the size even more) :P The real problem here is my internet connection ; my top upload speed seems to be something like 100-200ko/s, which isn't very much when there'…

The link is to a txt file! Anyway the archive link someone else posted seems to work fine (I still can't load the original link).

Oh, ok. On this folder (https://misc.l3m.in/txt/) there is a link to my main website (won't post the link here in order to reduce the load) and I thought you were talking about it :P

Keep refreshing like anyone (I guess), my server is at 1.5% of load average, you should be able to access this txt file, if my slow connection is allowing you to reach my server :/

Re: A little trick to spam the spammers (2021)

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Post by informalo »

dylan604 wrote: post #97
sacrosancty wrote: post #92

I used to get spam from a Chinese exporter who conveniently included their actual address in the emails. One day I happened to be visiting their city and went to their office and asked them to unsubscribe me in person. The lady was very confused and first thought I wanted to buy something. I showed her the spam on my phone and she agreed but didn't bother actually removing me. Just seemed to think I was a bit stupid…

There's no better motivater than having an upset customer in your presence. I have camped outside the office of someone until a situation was resolved.

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