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What's the best way to screw over SPAMMERS ???

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Hey, I have a bit of a problem with a particular SPAMMER. They got my e-mail address of my Website so I foolishly( I know better now) sent them a polite e-mail asking them to remove me from their mailing list. Since then I have been getting SPAM from them anything up to an e-mail every 10mins !!! Needless to say I'm pretty pissed off, I can't even block them with McAfee because every couple of e-mails they change their addresses and Subject matter. Does anyone know how I can get an e-mail address totally anonymously as in not needing to have a primary e-mail account or without your IP being able to be traced ?? That way I could go to THEIR Website and return the favour, the only difference being I would let them know I am one of their Bullshit SPAM recipients !! Any reasonable, and easy for me to put into play, advice would be much appreciated.
 





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abadcaffeinetrip said:
Lots of spam is sent from compromised machines.  Attacking them would really be useless.  However, you may want to search for "spam vampire" on Google....

Essentially, it takes images hosted on spammers servers and downloads it millions of times.  It runs up the bandwidth cost for them and screws the economics of sending spam.

Hey Brian, you know you were the person I was thinking of when I wrote this Post. I knew i'd get the answer I was looking for here !!! LPF really does ROCK !! It dosn't seem to come from another machine, according to the sent from address at least, though that dosn't mean that it didn't as I don't totally understand exactly how it works. I will definately search for "Spam Vampire" and implement it as soon as I get home. Though since writting this Post it has slowed right down as I joined SpamCop, and I have to say I think i'm pretty impressed with them. I will post here again when I know more about how well they do their job. I will still do the Spam Vampire thing though because they did decide to target me after asking nicely for them to stop. I always ask nicely first, but after that it's on. Oh one other question, when going to a Website under a Proxy is there anyway at all that you can be found out ?

Thanks again Brian.
 
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That sounds like the best form of retribution I've ever heard regarding spammers! Maybe that explains why a third of the daily noise I get contains attached images. :p Other than that, everyone's already said what's going on. It's hard to take action against them when they're victimizing others to spew their filth across the net.
Plus, once you get on a list, it's impossible to get off of it. They expect you'll reply or use the so-called required opt-outs. Half of the opt-out options confirm you have an address so they can send more spam, and the other half don't work. Either way, it gets sold again and again to other net creeps looking to blast more mail to boxes that may or may not exist.
Best way to avoid spam to an important address is to use a junkmail provider every time you need an e-mail for some website or such. If your important address isn't posted except to those who need it, you're less likely to be spammed.
 
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Attacking a botnet is useless, unless its really small. Mega-D sends out the most Viagra ads, and theres no point in trying to attack it.
 
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try switching to GMAIL, it blocks almost 100% of the spam i receive everyday (i get like 130 spam each day)
 

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A DoS attack would be pointless if you stop your ping response ::) It would be cool if you could find their location through whois, ask their ISP for a full address, so some more investigating to see exactly who is behind it , show up on his doorstep and break his F***** teeth :D That'll show them.....It would probably cost a lot of money and effort but would be totally worth it. ;D
 
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We seriously need to start a "smash the SPAMMERS" crusade. Everyone picks the worst spammer they would like to see taken down and we all do what we can to make it happen. Maybe spend a week or so on each one, as long as we are able to let them know they where targeted for being a$$wipes, loosers and neanderthals !!! Maybe via anonnamous E-mail ? Can it be done ??? Or do they continue to win by dictating to us, invading our right to privacy and seemingly being untouchable ??? I can't beleive that NOTHING can be done to F@#K these lowlifes over. I personally have had these pricks sending me their cheesy crap !!!! I WANT SOME RETRIBUTION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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I dunn if it works will all clients, but if you put the email address seperated by a comma multiple times, it send the email a few times. Like spammer@idiots.com, spammer@idiots.com. I dunn if it will work though.
I used to prank my friends with a form to mail php script. It was like a website contact form, so I could type whatever I wanted into the message box and hold down enter. It would crank out about 30 emails a second, it was great for annoying friends. I would just put a rock on enter to hold it down to send emails, and I would leave for a few minutes. When I came back the victim would have 20,000 or emails in his/her inbox all with the same message. All you have to do is go to http://www.thesitewizard.com and use the form to mail wizard, type in the spammers email, upload the scripts to your site, and you can do some re-spamming.
 




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