How can I become the spammers I detest?

June 13, 2004 9:53 PM

Seems like I ran across a website a long time ago that you could enter someone's email address, and it would send them a billion emails. Anyone know of a site like that? I feel like getting some revenge against some very persistent spammers.
posted by maceo to Computers & Internet (13 answers total)

Many spamers fake their email addresses.
posted by rudyfink at 10:22 PM on June 13, 2004

if this exisited on the web, then it would have been over-run by spammers long ago.
posted by Hackworth at 10:23 PM on June 13, 2004

Many spamers fake their email addresses.

Indeed, many spammers use other e-mail addresses from their ill-gotten databases as falsified senders. I've been receiving dozens of bounce messages on a daily basis from spam I never sent because of this practice.

In other words, don't. You'll just as likely end up punishing someone who has already fallen victim to the spammers.
posted by Danelope at 10:33 PM on June 13, 2004

You could put them on phyrewerx's friend's list...
posted by five fresh fish at 11:46 PM on June 13, 2004

Isn't that illegalish?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 1:50 AM on June 14, 2004

Illegal? Illegal?? This is the internet! Everything is legal here!

Or so I'm told.
posted by reklaw at 2:34 AM on June 14, 2004

One of the domains I own has been used repeatedly in a joe-job spamming campaign over the last fortnight. I get about twenty delivery failed messages an hour... pain in the neck. I'm just grateful they didn't use a domain which I actually use to send a lot of email myself. So if you'd sent one of those email addresses a million emails, I'd not be best pleased...
posted by humuhumu at 4:37 AM on June 14, 2004

humuhumu: Same thing is happening to me with one of my domains. I've heard about less-tolerant domain hosting companies cancelling a person's hosting account due to this happening on a much larger scale (and subsequent complaints from spamees to the hosting provider about the apparent spammer domain).
posted by Meridian at 5:37 AM on June 14, 2004

Somebody co-opted one of my domains for spamming as well. They don't use any of my hardware to spam so there's nothing I can do on my end to prevent it. Instead they forge the reply to address to appear to come from my domain including [e-mail].

I'd not only be displeased with being the recipient of a few million email subscriptions I'd be downright litigatious.
posted by substrate at 5:45 AM on June 14, 2004

Ack. Same experience here... That's why I don't even pay attention to the addresses I see on spam. I really don't think some guy at blahblah.edu is trying to sell me pills to enlarge my nonexistent penis.
posted by taz at 6:37 AM on June 14, 2004

Probably better revenge to complain to his upstream providers, providing specifics.
posted by theora55 at 6:40 AM on June 14, 2004

Response by poster: I see. I would hate to flood an innocent person's inbox. Thanks. I guess I will just have to get over it. But it sure is darn frustrating.
posted by maceo at 8:08 AM on June 14, 2004

Crap.

Stay away from my email please. (pandora's box, right?)

http://www.emailrevenge.tk/
posted by filmgeek at 12:15 PM on June 14, 2004