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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
by joelthelion 10y ago
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.
- StavrosK 10y ago1) Yeah, there's support for multiple domains, but I have no domains right now :) If anyone wants to donate one, please open an issue! 2) Exactly, they're so desperate for leads that they will spend lots of time chasing someone who doesn't appear to make lots of sense.
- joelthelion 10y agoAnother important one: I just had to delete a conversation because my email was still in there. You should probably make the email stripping more aggressive, and make it look throughout the whole email. Edit: just noticed I get a chance to edit the conversation. That's pretty cool, although of course it would be even better if I didn't have to :-D
- fiatjaf 10y agoI have inputs.space expiring on Feb 17, do you want it?
- StavrosK 10y agoI was going to say yes, but then I realized it needs a bunch of MX/etc settings on your end, so let me streamline the process a bit more (and possibly add something to the README). Thanks for the offer! EDIT: Opened https://gitlab.com/stavros/Spamnesty/issues/7 https://gitlab.com/stavros/Spamnesty/issues/7 to track this.
- cryptarch 10y agoI have a few domains you could borrow? I can at the least offer you 5 domains for half a year, shoot me an email if you're interested.
- StavrosK 10y agoWill do, thank you! I need to get the process ironed out with a second domain first, then I'll contact you.
- oneeyedpigeon 10y agoI've now read so much spam, I can't help but see it everywhere! ;-)
- cryptarch 10y agoYou too can be the proud borrower of 5 domains! Just shoot me an email at cryptarch+employee-us-bigcorp-com@gmail.com. jk
- compurocker 10y agoBesides multiple domains you could also make different companies for each domain and randomize which one shows.
- StavrosK 10y agoYes, each domain will have a different company name. They'll all probably have maritime shipping homepages, though.
- tyingq 10y agoI would also suggest giving the spammers more intense work to do. Like a pdf form for new suppliers that they have to download, fill out, sign, scan back in, and return. Or maybe submit to a form page with a horribly difficult captcha.
- adrianN 10y agoSubmit a form page with an impossible captcha.
- benbristow 10y agoOuch. That's evil. Make it count how many times they've attempted. Every-time clear random fields and randomise fields to make auto-filling neigh-on impossible.
- puddintane 10y agoNot just clear the fields but change the field names using server side scripting to keep track of the changes that way auto-fillers such as RoboForm can't be used. edit Also re-order the form locations, placeholders so it's nearly impossible to script automation for the page!
- tyingq 10y agoThis kept me amused for several minutes: https://www.google.com/search?q=impossible+captcha&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=impossible+captcha&tbm=isch
- slig 10y agoBut make the impossible captcha appears after they filled all the form.
- conjectures 10y agoIFL this. Someone please make this happen. '[country] rules mean we need you fill out the attached pdf. Please complete and upload to [... IP logging website]'
- oelmekki 10y agoI love the randomness :) Just followed this one : https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/rqtunkps/ https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/rqtunkps/ > - 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?"
- StavrosK 10y agoWait, how did you follow that one? Isn't it unlisted?
- oelmekki 10y agoWhat do you mean by unlisted? I forwarded it, then received a mail from smannesty containing direct link to the thread. EDIT : oh, I also removed the private key from url param before posting it here. EDIT 2 : typo in my initial message: by "followed", I meant "forwarded" (in french, we say "faire suivre", which translates word by word to "make follow")
- StavrosK 10y agoOh, okay, I thought you saw it on the front page, but the latter only shows conversations with more than two emails.