BULK EMAIL HARVESTING

BULK EMAIL HARVESTING

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How do spammers harvest email addresses?
Several methods are described.

Most directories prohibit email address harvesting by spammers, but as those databases have a large databases of email addresses + names, it's a tempting target for spammers

someone harvesting email addresses from UseNet and sells the list either to a company that wishes to advertise via email (sometimes passing off the list as that of people who opted-in for emailed advertisements) or to others who resell the list



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Website set up to deliver almost infinite numbers of bogus email addresses to
email harvesting bots.

To link to this page, just use this simple code: Text : <a href='http://english-74365933126.spampoison.com'>Fight Spam! Click Here!</a> Blog Sticker : <a href='http://english-74365933126.spampoison.com'></a> These links will redirect email harvesting bots to trap sites that will feed it with an almost infinite loop of dynamically generated fake email addresses, mostly on known spammer owned domains! This will render their harvested lists pratically useless and of no commercial value

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Address Munging FAQ: Spam-Blocking Your Email Address
How to spam-block ("munge") your email address.

Most address harvesting software used by junk emailers does not discriminate; anything with an '@' sign is considered an address


Securityfocus: Fighting Spammers With Honeypots
This paper evaluates the usefulness of using honeypots to fight spammers.

Another example of harvesting addresses may be through the use of poorly configured mailing lists that give out the list of its subscribers

Figure 1: Harvesting email addresses You may also want to read [] other documents to get more detailed explanations about the harvesting of email addresses

2.1 Honeypots and harvesting One of the first phases of a spammer is the harvesting of email addresses

Here we will focus on the harvesting through Web pages, which may be the easiest case to solve for those trying to defend against spam

During automatic harvesting of valid email addresses on the Web, spammers may sometimes be recognized because of the tools they use by checking the User-Agent field sent by their browser []

And more than that, you know that this address was a spam harvesting source


Email Protector
Hides email addresses from the spambots by using encryption and Javascript.


Address Munging Considered Harmful
A paper arguing against the practice of spam-blocking on Usenet by using an
altered email address.

Others have begun to munge their addresses to prevent spammers from harvesting them for use in their lists of spam targets

You might find that as spammers and those who sell lists of targets become more sophisticated, those lists will be ``de-munged'' by increasingly intelligent harvesting software

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Stopping Spambots: A Spambot Trap
Neil Gunton describes his experiences with software programs browsing websites
looking for email addresses, and the techniques he developed to stop them.


Sales Leads from bulk email can help you increase sales.
Offers video production and editing, streaming internet technologies, CD-ROM
authoring, and web design.

We specialize in harvesting the information you need to make sales


Know your Enemy: Phishing
This white paper aims to provide practical information on the practice of phishing
and draws on data collected by the German Honeynet Project and UK Honeynet ...

Examples of the malware used by phishers to automate harvesting of email addresses and sending of spam email are reviewed, and we also present our observations on network scanning techniques and how compromised machines are used to spread phishing emails and other spam

The term phishing ("password harvesting fishing") describes the fraudulent acquisition, through deception, of sensitive personal information such as passwords and credit card details by masquerading as someone trustworthy with a real need for such information


Honeynet.org: Tracking Botnets
Paper on the use of honeynets to learn more about botnets. Covers uses of botnets,
how they work and how to track them.

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Wikipedia - Spamming
Provides a general overview of the spamming phenomenon. Links to articles which
discuss the techniques of spammers on particular media: Internet e-mail, ...


Foiling Spam With Email Password System
Describes a procedure that allows foiling SPAM effectively by using a password
system that uses procmail filters and a Bourne shell script.


Federal Trade Commission
Information from the FTC on E-commerce and the Internet. Includes anti-fraud tips.

by a Pyramid Scheme Campaign [] Don't Want Your Email Address Harvested? [] [] Dot Cons: FTC's Top 10 Dot Cons [] [] Electronic Check Conversion [] [] Electronic Banking [] [] Email Address Harvesting: How Spammers Reap What You Sow [] [] Entertainment Ratings: Pocket Guide [] [] "Free" and "Low-Cost" PC Offers


Other Ways to Fry Spam
The Chickenboners and the Lumber Cartel are waging a war over your email box. [Wired]


Junk E-mail and Spam
Information on deciphering spam, complaining about it, and filtering e-mail.

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