Spamnesty - How To Waste A Spammers Time The Smart Way
An interactive email service that will answer spam emails for you and drive the scammer nuts until they quit.
I have a very exciting offer for you...
...I am a managing director on an important bank, I have $1,200,000 in a frozen bank account but unfortunately I cannot access them right now. If you can provide me with your bank details we can make a transfer and you receive $800,000 as a reward to keep for realizing this business opportunity.
Or something like that.
I'm pretty sure that most of us have received at least a hundred emails from these angel investors and Nigerian princes with extremely lucrative business offers.
Most times these attempts come to fruition only if a really gullible person is on the receiving end, however we all become suffer by wasting our time on these annoying scammers.
Wouldn't it be nice to pay back some and waste their time for a change?
Introducing Spamnesty
This developer felt the same way. He developed a super fun service that is meant to waste spammers time. If you receive a spam mail, you can forward it to [email protected]. The software will remove your email address and pretend to be a human. Then it will start to reply to the spammer convincing him that he is ready to enter a business partnership. It will also give you link so you can watch the conversation unfold in real time.
This is helpful in two ways: Firstly it will waste the spammers time and perhaps make him reconsider his line of work. Secondly, while the spammer is busy talking to a bot he won't be using the time on a real victim.
Check out the replies
Here are some screenshots of what Spamnesty will do. It's hilarious to read knowing that it's a bot answering the spammer.
Well, you get the picture. You can read some more here or here and here.
Visit the original website: https://spa.mnesty.com/
Spamnesty is not a finished product yet, so you should use it bearing in mind it might act funky. Looking forward to it's completion and trying it out on the next piece of junk that lands in my inbox.
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- Nick ( @cryptonik ) -
LOL reminds me of this guy here James Veitch, he is a funny guy who replied to spammers
Haha, right on ;)
That sounds like it is right up my alley. Now if only we could get one to keep the IRS and Revenue Canada busy....
The tax man steals a lot more of my money then the low level scammers do.
Haha, now that would be something, they are the real experts in daylight robbery...
A good idea. Can I get a bot that can talk with a porn bot?
We should build one :P
Will probably use it next time. Thanks for the info :) have a great year!
Haha cheers! You too
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This is awesome! I find that Gmail does a pretty good job of not letting those spam emails through anymore, but I'll consider this tool the next time it happens ;)
You totally should - it's good fun ;)