Fighting Spammers With Their Own Goods

[mobo57]

According to my latest calculations, I am now somewhere in the billionaire club, thats 1,000 million for you guys on the wrong side of the world.....
Anyway, lately been collecting the emails letting me know my check is waiting. Gathered them all up, all 100+ of them. Go into Outlook, select all of them, right click, print, out to Acrobat and viola!!! The last one I just received got a 132 page reply from me, letting him know to get in line with my check....
Think he read all of it for ideas?? :D

[Shoreguy]

<noreply@spammer.mobo57.com>
Sorry, but any email you may have sent to this account only justifies that your account is active and therefore subject to further spam or worse.

Have a nice day :)

:t

[herosrest]

The simple way to defeat spam - tens of Billions of non active e-mail addresses - available for farming across the web - so many that it is simple common knowledge to business's that employ spammers that it is a waste of time. It's not even difficult or expensive to do.

Do not open spam - by it's very nature it identifies your address as valid even though set up as junk accounts.

[leprechaun_40]

http://www.forward-moving.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/38197-spam.jpg

[mobo57]

My own personal experience with spammers is they will keep operating regardless. I have another email account that I made the mistake of putting the address on the front page of a website I had. Needless to say within a few days of doing that the trickle started. Soon it was a flood. I deleted all spam or even possible spam without opening religiously. I shut down the website over a year ago but kept the email account.
Recently I checked the account, had not done it in a couple of months. My in box had over 900 messages and my spam box had almost double that. Out of the 900 in my in box, all but 6 were spam. I deleted all. Two days later, another 45 spam.
So not opening a spam may help, but it is really just a very partial fix. Yes I probably did identify my account as active, but I am basically getting it non-stop now.
Besides, maybe my "tool" could be a bit longer... :D