Hmm. Tried it and the email bounced back with: “554 Recipients' domain disabled”
Unfortunately, Mailgun is throttling the domain due to large rates of mail. All we can do is wait the ban out, I'm afraid.
Spamnesty – A Bot to waste spammers' time
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Re: Spamnesty – A Bot to waste spammers' time
#72I once made something very similar, back then it was called an autobaiter by the scambaiting community. It would actually figure out what kind of scam the spammer was pulling and adjust its script in kind to pretend to play along with the scammers script. I should dig that up again.
Spamnesty also has multiple scripts and you select the kind of spam to reply to. There's an MR open for doing this automatically, but it's pretty big and I've put off reviewing it for way too long.
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#73It looks like in many cases [1] it's confusing the threads? Subjects and discussions start changing after a few messages in many threads I looked at. [1] https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/vkeezpyz/
I see this all the time and have assumed it's related to difficulties correlating outbound messages (to the spammer) with responses. Also within a message thread the service sometimes fails to respond to the most recent email from a spammer. An example thread showing both issues: https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/caabzkyg/
The failure to respond is because I set a limit, it stops after a few tens of messages to avoid endless loops with bots. The other messages are because it gets put into a list and just gets spammed, as far as I can tell.
Re: Spamnesty – A Bot to waste spammers' time
#74So it would be hilarious if you connected the spam asking for manuscripts[1] to the fake manuscript generating code [2]. We would end up with bot published journals. [1] https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/cjubnfdx/ [2] https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/
Oh God, I have to do this now.
Re: Spamnesty – A Bot to waste spammers' time
#75Had a good chuckle reading through the chat logs, but it would be interesting to see the results using NLP to formulate new nonsense questions aimed at the spammer. The spammer side seems to also employ some level of bot automation, and its like two bots going at each other with the occasional broken english comment showing confusion and frustration....this is truly golden.
MRs appreciated, but please make them in multiple short, self-contained pieces
Re: Spamnesty – A Bot to waste spammers' time
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use google voice call announce for anyone not in my contact list
Is that a GV setting? Is it available on iOS?
Yes absolutely. I use the iOS app but I configured the whole thing on my laptop using the website.
switch to "legacy google voice" and then go to settings: https://i.imgur.com/wbaV75e.png
Re: Spamnesty – A Bot to waste spammers' time
#77Just read through this one https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/ecfrqrps/ – and was laughing stitches. Great job!
Re: Spamnesty – A Bot to waste spammers' time
#78Just read through this one https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/ecfrqrps/ – and was laughing stitches. Great job!
The whole conversation gives me cringe
Re: Spamnesty – A Bot to waste spammers' time
#79What we really need is something like this for the phone scammers, particularly the "IRS" scam I've been getting regulars calls from most of this year.
Someone made a call bot called "Lenny" to fool telemarketers, which uses recorded messages. They put up their call logs on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduL71_GKzHHk4hLga0nO...
Hahaha, that was hillarious! I wish there was a bit of voice recognition too, because then this bot would be unbeatable! There should also be a few more variations, but then it seems more than enough to get the seller/scammer enganged for quite some time.
Re: Spamnesty – A Bot to waste spammers' time
#80This is the best thing I've seen in a while.
That they host the code in gitlab is a nice touch.