Pick your poison:
Spammer Cost Escalation:
The SpamVampire operates on the principle that bandwidth consumption costs the spammers money, and a lot of bandwidth consumption costs the spammers a lot of money. Aims to make spamming unprofitable by increasing the costs of spamming.
NOTE #1:
This is a high-bandwidth-consumption method, so if you are on a limited bandwidth or pay-per-byte connection, it might not be what you are looking for.
NOTE #2:
While most smaller spammers can be data-drained directly, the professional spammers will quickly block your IP address, so if you really want to run up their cost of doing business, you'll need to chain your browser through anonymous proxies (see the SpamVampire intro page for more information).
Spammer Income Reduction:
The Refi Retaliator II operates on the principle that feeding bogus leads to the spammer causes their income to go down... if those leads are resold to otherwise legitimate businesses, they will discontinue doing business with the spammer when they discover the leads are mostly bogus, and if the spammer uses the leads himself, he'll quickly discover that there are so many bogus leads that finding the legitimate ones is an exercise in futility.
This tool is targeted at Alex Polyakov right now (who is responsible for almost all the mortgage refinancing spam, the HealthSuite pharmaceuticals spam, the Longz penis enlargement spam, the SPUR-M male enhancement spam, the Fast Track Diploma spam, several investment scams (Dornstetten Deutsche, ww.w-e-gold.com, Ryan Kelly Jungle Ventures, solidinvestment.com), has a large credit card theft ring in the US, has a large money laundering operation in the US, has paid for domain registrations with stolen credit cards, and runs a botnet... to name just a few of his illegalities), but can be reconfigured for any spamvertised website with a feedback form, if you know Javascript.
NOTE #1:
The data arrays for building the fake personas that will be submitted to the spammers' sites are large, so enable your browser cache in order to save our bandwidth.
NOTE #2:
It is best to run this in Firefox, with the RefControl extension set to strip out the Referer. Otherwise, your submissons will be blocked.
NOTE #3:
This is a low-bandwidth-consumption method, but in order to trick the spammers into thinking the bogus submissions are coming from a lot of different people, you will need to chain your browser through anonymous proxies (see the SpamVampire intro page for more information).
NOTE #4:
If you want to set up your own Refi Retaliator II (either on a web server, or run from your own computer), you can get the files here .
Spamvertised Domain Reporting:
The SpammerSlammer is a semi-automated reporting VBA tool for MS Outlook 2000, allowing a person to report spam to any number of spam reporting entities (including SpamCop) with just a couple clicks. This code originated with other authors, was greatly expanded by myself and Leon Mayne working together, and was later turned into OLSpamCop by Leon Mayne.
Email address obfuscation:
To ensure that spambots don't harvest your email addresses from your website, you can utilize this innovative email address obfuscator. Full instructions are on the page.
Spammer Cost Escalation:
The SpamVampire operates on the principle that bandwidth consumption costs the spammers money, and a lot of bandwidth consumption costs the spammers a lot of money. Aims to make spamming unprofitable by increasing the costs of spamming.
NOTE #1:
This is a high-bandwidth-consumption method, so if you are on a limited bandwidth or pay-per-byte connection, it might not be what you are looking for.
NOTE #2:
While most smaller spammers can be data-drained directly, the professional spammers will quickly block your IP address, so if you really want to run up their cost of doing business, you'll need to chain your browser through anonymous proxies (see the SpamVampire intro page for more information).
Spammer Income Reduction:
The Refi Retaliator II operates on the principle that feeding bogus leads to the spammer causes their income to go down... if those leads are resold to otherwise legitimate businesses, they will discontinue doing business with the spammer when they discover the leads are mostly bogus, and if the spammer uses the leads himself, he'll quickly discover that there are so many bogus leads that finding the legitimate ones is an exercise in futility.
This tool is targeted at Alex Polyakov right now (who is responsible for almost all the mortgage refinancing spam, the HealthSuite pharmaceuticals spam, the Longz penis enlargement spam, the SPUR-M male enhancement spam, the Fast Track Diploma spam, several investment scams (Dornstetten Deutsche, ww.w-e-gold.com, Ryan Kelly Jungle Ventures, solidinvestment.com), has a large credit card theft ring in the US, has a large money laundering operation in the US, has paid for domain registrations with stolen credit cards, and runs a botnet... to name just a few of his illegalities), but can be reconfigured for any spamvertised website with a feedback form, if you know Javascript.
NOTE #1:
The data arrays for building the fake personas that will be submitted to the spammers' sites are large, so enable your browser cache in order to save our bandwidth.
NOTE #2:
It is best to run this in Firefox, with the RefControl extension set to strip out the Referer. Otherwise, your submissons will be blocked.
NOTE #3:
This is a low-bandwidth-consumption method, but in order to trick the spammers into thinking the bogus submissions are coming from a lot of different people, you will need to chain your browser through anonymous proxies (see the SpamVampire intro page for more information).
NOTE #4:
If you want to set up your own Refi Retaliator II (either on a web server, or run from your own computer), you can get the files here .
Spamvertised Domain Reporting:
The SpammerSlammer is a semi-automated reporting VBA tool for MS Outlook 2000, allowing a person to report spam to any number of spam reporting entities (including SpamCop) with just a couple clicks. This code originated with other authors, was greatly expanded by myself and Leon Mayne working together, and was later turned into OLSpamCop by Leon Mayne.
Email address obfuscation:
To ensure that spambots don't harvest your email addresses from your website, you can utilize this innovative email address obfuscator. Full instructions are on the page.
Below are the links to the various anti-spam tools.
SpamVampire
Refi Retaliator
SpammerSlammer
Email Address Obfuscator
28Jan2006
I reworked the antispam pages so more than one tool can be picked. Please see the tool descriptions to the left, and the links above.