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So i devised this trap, basically i create a new e-mail account, pass it on to a single suspect, and see what happens, then i do the same for each shady character, and i keep them marked
As time goes by i notice that i am receiving thousands of emails at some addresses, so i know who the leak is, then i try to figure out are they passing off this virus intentionally or are they unsuspecting victims of someone else’s wrong doing.
And then i sit here and wonder what i should do about it
A few of these gambling sites are totally guilty of being the weak link, scammers everywhere i guess, WTF i used to get excited about reading mail, now i’m afraid to open my inbox
These Spam Catcher crapper sites are useless, without the Spam they would have no purpose for even existing
Somebody give me a gun
:flamer::spam4:
I do the same thing… I typically have an email for each account I sign up for (forum, affy program, casino, blog, etc…)
It’s easy to find out who is spamming from that.
I was doing something like this too, for a while. I had a “catch all” email feature set up so that “anything”[at]choicegambling.com would come through. That worked quite well, UNTIL….
One day I started receiving hundreds of emails to random email addresses [at]choicegambling.com. For example 3h8gh[at]choicegambling.com, r9jg9a[at]choicegambling.com. Of course, none of these email addresses truly existed, and if I created them ‘officially’ with the intention of blocking everything that came to them, I’d have to create hundreds of addresses. Not feasible.
So, unfortunately I had to put an end to the “catch all.” I had to change a bunch of my affiliate email addresses back to my primary email address, which meant I would no longer be able to see if they sold my address to anyone else. I did manually create some new accounts for a couple of programs that I don’t trust, and that I haven’t worked with in a long time — i.e. 888.com, Cpays, Casino Partners, and most other Playtech programs.
I switched to a gif image for my email address and this cut spam down considerably. Plus I always use the same email address unrelated to my sites when I join programs, add links, join forums if I can.
A couple of months ago I received an email from marketing for an affiliate program that I never joined. I do remember checking out their site a while back. The funny thing is the email had my full name and mentioned my states pro football team. (My domain is registered as private.)
I RE’d and asked how they got my personal info as I’m not in their program and they just spun it saying I may have signed up for more information which I clearly didn’t.
Cheers,
SlotplayerI’ve used this method before too, like incomeaccess[at]mysite.com and so on.. then you see who’s putting ur stuff up for sale. . .
LadyH
PS, income access was off the top of my head, not meant to be an example of a site that ACTUALLY sells or abuses email addys.
@Engineer 131724 wrote:
I was doing something like this too, for a while. I had a “catch all” email feature set up so that “anything”[at]choicegambling.com would come through. That worked quite well, UNTIL….
One day I started receiving hundreds of emails to random email addresses [at]choicegambling.com. For example 3h8gh[at]choicegambling.com, r9jg9a[at]choicegambling.com. Of course, none of these email addresses truly existed, and if I created them ‘officially’ with the intention of blocking everything that came to them, I’d have to create hundreds of addresses. Not feasible.
So, unfortunately I had to put an end to the “catch all.” I had to change a bunch of my affiliate email addresses back to my primary email address, which meant I would no longer be able to see if they sold my address to anyone else. I did manually create some new accounts for a couple of programs that I don’t trust, and that I haven’t worked with in a long time — i.e. 888.com, Cpays, Casino Partners, and most other Playtech programs.
catchall was great until the spammers realized that most hosting providers had it enabled by default, and than the great spam flood began.
I have noticed a recent trend, by some affiliate companies, to use remailing services to get by blocked addresses. Shady MoFo’s
As far as posting contact addresses on a website, I’ve always used contact forms. If you choose this route, just make sure the email address is in a seperate included file and not in the hidden form variable…spammers will never have access to your email address….until they hack your server :sarcasm:
