Spamming the spammers

Occasionally, I will spot a live e mail address when one of these cretins is trying to put one across and I take great pleasure in causing them a little inconvenience.

Yesterday, I decided to play a little trick on a bunch of spamming clowns named clash-media.com

I signed up for the shite they were hawking (I think it was the "chance" to win a day out at Alton Towers (a place I wouldn't be caught dead at).  I knew that once I entered my e mail address (which was a variant of one of my domains), I would be deluged with spam for other stuff.'

Then, using that variant, I set up a filter to stop the spam from landing in my inbox, but to be forwarded to: info@clash-media.com

Aren't I a scamp, especially as within 10 minutes of signing up, I received 5 mails all addressed to that variant, before I had set up my little redirection mechanism.

The sad thing is we're never going to close these arseholes down.  It would be nice to go burn down their offices and hack their websites, to cause them as much inconvenience as they cause us.

If a web site or mail server received so much traffic, it shuts down, that's known as a DOS or Denial Of Service.  Maybe if everyone sent their junk mail on to info@clash-media.com it would cause a DOS on a spammer's server.  Wouldn't that be fun?

Comments

[PZR]

You're not a scamp, you're a GENIUS!