Send Spammers Into A Death Loop
I am always looking for new ways to kill spam. This is a unique solution that creates an endless loop of fake e-mail addresses that the spambot gets trapped in!
Here is what their website writes:
Email harvesting bots, otherwise known as data miners, follow links, grabbing email addresses out of each page it visits. When one of these bots comes to your site, all sites you’ve linked get crawled for email addresses.This site renders these harvester’s lists useless by filling them with invalid e-mail addresses. Once a spammer hits this site, they enter an infinite loop of randomly created email addresses (starting with the ones it generates when it first comes to the site) Once a mailing list has been poisoned with a number of invalid e-mail addresses, the resources required to send a message to this list increases, even though the number of valid recipients has not. This forces the spammer to exhaust more resources to send e-mail, in theory costing the spammer money and time. A best-case scenario would cause the spammer to throw out the mailing lists completely.
If you link to this page, whenever a harvester visits your site, it gets filled up with superfluous email addresses. These email addresses change every time this page is visited.
If you want to add this same feature to your blog or website, simple copy and paste this code onto your site:
P.S. They also have a snail mail version as well!
4 Responses to “Send Spammers Into A Death Loop”
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appsbyaaron Says:
April 21st, 2009 at 11:10 amFinally SOME kind of retribution! muhahahaha
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Andrew Says:
April 21st, 2009 at 11:50 amBRILLIANT! but, eventually this site will be excluded from a spambot’s list. What we really need is an open source project so that webmasters everywhere can host this code on their own domains!
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iso_ Says:
April 21st, 2009 at 3:26 pman open source project might suffer from the same flaw (being blacklisted). just take these couple of php lines and add them somewhere to your page to achieve the real goal:
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David Says:
April 22nd, 2009 at 2:21 amWhat I know about HTML could be written on the back of a postage stamp. Can I please have a layman’s explanation from iso_ comment 3?
I would like to help the cause. I have a simple website for a charity event I am involved with www.darlingbudsclassiccarshow.co.uk
that I put together using MS Publisher’s website builder (a WYSIWYG program). I can “insert HTML code fragment” which I have used to embed a YouTube video, so that works, but I’m a little hazy on what bits I am supposed to use from what I’ve read here and what (if anything) appears on the page.
