Re: Article - A solution to phishing

[Joseph Miller <joseph () tidetamerboatlifts com>]

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Exon,
Would you happen to have that script available?  If many people had access to 
this script it could possibly cause DDoS and severely limit spammers.  I 
would, of course, not necessarily recommend this particular action because of 
the legal implications, so I must say, "We could use this as a possible 
threat to illegal spammers".  Thanks for the info.

- -Joseph

On Thursday 16 December 2004 11:47 am, exon wrote:
> Ian wrote:
> > On 14 Dec 2004 at 13:43, Adam Tuliper wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > Personally, I like stringing them on and giving them false information
> > > and wasting their time. Its fun, I recommend all of you try it : )
> >
> > You make have stumbled across a solution
> > here ;)
> >
> > Why not code an automated system that fills
> > in their bogus log in screens with false
> > information?
> >
> > There are only a limited number of banking
> > web sites around so a template could be
> > created for each.
> >
> > If enough people join in these phishers
> > would get swamped with information and
> > wouldn't know the good from the bad.
> >
> > Thoughts ?
>
> This is known to be effective against spammers which use href-links in
> email to verify 'live' email-addresses. It's usually highly effective if
> you find something that looks like
> www.some-site.com/remove_me.asp?m=email () somewhere org
>
> I used to get around 400 spam emails a day, so I wrote a quick script to
> connect to a couple of these urls a couple of million times with
> auto-generated email-addresses. Sometime during the second night of
> running I kept getting connection refused and spam dropped down to
> around 40 / day.
>
> Another anti-mischief act was when some organisation (can't remember
> which) found out the IRL address of a spammer who had used their
> mail-server and signed him up for every free hard-copy snailmail ads and
> catalogues they could find. As it turned out, the spammer received some
> four tons of advertising papers and leaflets through his mailbox in a
> week, effectively causing a DoS on his own apartment. Retaliation can be
> so fun. ;)
>
> /exon
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