The SpamBox Experiment
Everyone hates spam. It wastes your time. It takes up your bandwidth. It annoys us by trying to sell us products we don’t want. And I want to fill my inbox with it!
That’s right! You read that correctly! I want spam! Essentially, I want to find out what find out more about the type of spam that is out there these days. Who is sending it. Where it is coming from. Tactics they are using to get into your inbox. All kinds of stuff.
So, here is what I’ve done. I have created new e-mail account and I will be posting that e-mail address once and only once. I will then monitor my new inbox to see what comes in.
I ask that anyone who reads this post to not copy the e-mail address or send e-mail to it. This will skew the results.
So, here goes! All spammers! Please send as much spam as possible to spambox@dailycupoftech.com!
I’ll keep you posted as things progress.
5 Responses to “The SpamBox Experiment”
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Stefan Says:
April 6th, 2009 at 10:45 amQuick annotation:
I would use a mailadress with a typical firstname and lastname or something like that in it, but not one with the word “spam”. I’ve already heard of spambots filtering out these mail addresses because spammers know that they will only get to a spam account… -
David Says:
April 8th, 2009 at 12:51 amIf that’s true it may be a good idea to make your real email with the word spam in it although it may look a little funny
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Von Says:
April 10th, 2009 at 2:23 pmSuggestion: create another mailbox at the same time with a similar address, but don’t advertise so that it acts as a control.
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appsbyaaron Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 7:09 amInteresting experiment. The sad thing is that I often read some article that an anti-spam company has discovered that a large portion of spam is coming form a single IP address but either can’t do anything about it because it’s in Russia (or somewhere we have no legal authority) or won’t.
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Spam Me! Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 8:18 pmSend Me Spam!
