Mastodawn

📉 Oh, rejoice! 🎉 After 18 painstaking years of chasing virtual bogeymen, we've finally hit the jackpot: more ghostly spamtraps than actual Norwegians! 🧙‍♂️ Because nothing says #success like creating a ghost town for emails. 🤖
https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html #ghosttownemails #spamtrap #Norway #digitalghosts #HackerNews #ngated

Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?

kuijsten Dec 6, 2024

Caught 52 spam messages in the last four days using a couple of spam traps.

https://netsend.nl/opensmtpd-filter-spamtrap/

#opensmtpd #spamtrap #openbsd

kuijsten Nov 17, 2024

Some stats about the number of days it takes for a spammer to return.

days: count
0: 212
1: 20
2: 13
3: 5
4: 4
5: 2
6: 2
7: 3
8: 2
9: 1
10: 1
11: 1
12: 3
16: 2
17: 1
19: 1
20: 1
21: 2
27: 1

#opensmtpd #filter #spamtrap

Peter N. M. Hansteen Mar 19, 2023

Let's take a moment to welcome [email protected], our 310013th #spamtrap, delivered by #password #groping #bot via #ssh https://www.bsdly.net/~peter/traplist.shtml background https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-things-spammers-believe-tale-of.html or trackerless https://nxdomain.no/~peter/spammers_believe_in_300k_imaginary_friends.html

Andy Wenk Feb 26, 2023

Achtung - das ist SPAM. Eine Message von DHL, dass ein Paket wegen fehlender Zollgebühren festhängt …

#spamtrap #spam #cybersecurity

Peter N. M. Hansteen Jun 2, 2022

A data point that is likely of interest only to myself, but the number of imaginary friends at https://www.bsdly.net/~peter/traplist.shtml is now 294294, which is a funny number I think #spamd #spamtrap #openbsd #greytrapping

Peter N. M. Hansteen May 8, 2022

If you're one of the consumers of the bsdly.net traplist (https://www.bsdly.net/~peter/traplist.shtml) it may be useful to know that due to my fatfingering a change in the script that generates the list, you have been fetching unchanged data since 13:10 CEST yesterday. Updates now work again, sorry for the fatfingering. #spam #spamtrap #openbsd

Peter N. M. Hansteen Apr 13, 2022

I missed the exact moment it happened, but it seems that I now have more spamtraps (288,493 - https://www.bsdly.net/~peter/traplist.shtml and links therein) than there are people in my hometown (285,900 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen) and the number of imaginary friends is on a sharp increase. #spam #spamtrap #openbsd #spamd

Peter N. M. Hansteen Mar 5, 2022

272727 entries in my #spamtrap list.

A statistic that's meaningful to me alone, I guess.

See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml or some background https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2018/08/badness-enumerated-by-robots.html

silverwizard Feb 7, 2020

♲ @[email protected]:Conventional wisdom dictates a #spamtrap address should be unused, never a recipient of legit email. So why does #SORBS repurpose old porn spammer domains as spamtraps after the addresses subscribed to many old lists, forums, etc to spam them? It punishes victims, not spammers.

Dixie Flatline on Twitter

“Conventional wisdom dictates a #spamtrap address should be unused, never a recipient of legit email. So why does #SORBS repurpose old porn spammer domains as spamtraps after the addresses subscribed to many old lists, forums, etc to spam them? It punishes victims, not spammers.”

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