How can I sign up for spam?

John Shedletsky · 2006-11-16T09:39:38

I've spent some time thinking about fun software projects to do in my spare time when I was inspired by the spam flooding my inbox. I think I want to try to make my own spam filter classifier. It probably won't be as good as others you can find online, but I think it might be a good way to learn about bayesian networks. In order to try a classifier, I need a large corpus of spam emails. Does anyone know of a site I can go to to sign myself up for a boatload of spam? I want to set up about 20 honeypot gmail accounts to do nothing but collect the latest spam and then use one of those libraries that lets you use gmail as a disk to get the spams and mount a realtime defense. Probably won't get this far, but I like the idea.

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Started by Telamon November 15, 2006 12:30 PM

13 comments, last by leiavoia 17 years, 5 months ago

Liquid Darkness

498

November 15, 2006 08:39 PM

Try this first, then check this
out.

Happy spamming.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-----I am a signature virus. Please add me to your signature so that I may multiply.

nerd_boy

720

November 15, 2006 10:07 PM

Only on Gamedev....

Andrew Russell

1,394

November 16, 2006 05:49 AM

Quote:Original post by nerd_boy
Only on Gamedev....

Speaking of which - Guess which of my email addresses started receiving spam as soon as it was created, before anyone even knew about it [smile].

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Thevenin

270

November 16, 2006 07:55 AM

A great start is posting your email address on a popular forum. You could even indulge the malicious bots by making multiple links to your email address in all different flavors.

jill@hotmail.com
jill at hotmail.com
jill @ hotmail.com
jill@hotmail.com
jill@hotmail.com
jill [at] hotmail.com
jill at hotmail dot com

leiavoia

960

November 16, 2006 09:39 AM

Try posting a resume with your email addy in it at Monster.com et al. Spambots just eat those up.

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