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It seems a potentially effective approach to phishing scams would be to set up a huge network of honeypots and do automatic responses to the phishing servers wi
by marze 17y ago
It seems a potentially effective approach to phishing scams would be to set up a huge network of honeypots and do automatic responses to the phishing servers with bogus information.
At that point, you could try to swamp the real account info with the bogus, or you could also inform the financial institutions what the bogus info was so they could watch for it and set up sting operations.
Does anyone know if this type approach is used, and if not why?
- alextp 17y agoThis is very hard to do; you'd probably have to write a bot to feed reasonable but false data into random forms, and then coordinate it. You'd also be wasting a lot of bandwidth; in this sense it is as useless as those "let's DDOS them back!" approaches to fight spam.
- ars 17y agoBlue Security did exactly that with it's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Frog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Frog program. It was very very effective. So effective that spammers got together and DOS'd them, to the point that they were forced to shut down. No one (currently) is willing to try it again. A P2P version designed to handle a DOS was attempted, but never went anywhere.
- wmeredith 17y agoWhat a story! Thanks for the link. If they really did find the solution to Spam and were killed for it, it's a wonder that someone with deep pockets, think Google or MSoft doesn't do this again with monstrous bandwidth and power behind it. It would be costly, but imagine the PR win for removing spam from the internet.