Project Honey Pot Traps Billionth Spam 118
EastDakota writes "Project Honey Pot today announced that it had trapped its 1 billionth spammer. To celebrate, the team behind the largest community sourced project tracking online fraud and abuse released a full rundown of statistics on the last five years of spam. Findings include: spam drops 21% on Christmas Day and 32% of New Year's Day; the most spam is sent on Mondays, the least on Saturdays; spammers found at least 956 different ways to spell VIAGRA (e.g., VIAGRA, V1AGRA, V1@GR@, V!AGRA, VIA6RA, etc.) in mail received by the Project; and much more."
ok (Score:4, Funny)
So approximately one out of every 7 people on earth is a spammer?
Re:ok (Score:5, Funny)
And thats only the ones they've caught.
In fact, almost everyone on the net is a spammer. It's kind of a secret club, where you have to pass a secret trial, to gain your secret right of entry. It's so secret, I shouldn't even be divulging this secret information. If the secret spammers found out, I could get
Re:In the terribly elegant words of... someone? (Score:5, Funny)
Yes you can. Smith&Wesson released their first debugging tool for it over a century ago. The application remains illegal for some odd reason I don't really understand.
Re:In the terribly elegant words of... someone? (Score:5, Funny)
Yes you can. Smith&Wesson released their first debugging tool for it over a century ago. The application remains illegal for some odd reason I don't really understand.
Ah yes, the original 'point and click' interface for remotely managing stupid.
And it is illegal now you say? My apologies but from the place I hide to avoid stupid, we don't get many updates on all these new fangled laws.
Re:Spam = spy chatter? (Score:5, Funny)
My favorite theory is that spammers are making money by selling spamming services to suckers, not by actually selling a product in the spam.
I guess there is also some chance that there is some botnet out there set to verify that mail reaches addresses, and it is just running out of control.
Re:ok (Score:4, Funny)
Nice of them to hit the Submit button for you though, though it does seem to defeat the purpose of killing you for trying to send it.
Re:Thanks for the info on misspelling Viagra (Score:3, Funny)
Cost-benefit (Score:5, Funny)
If you total up all the productivity lost to fighting spam and time wasted getting spam, it's probably cheaper to just put the spammers out of business by giving every male on earth free Viagra.
Re:In the terribly elegant words of... someone? (Score:5, Funny)
Yes you can. Smith&Wesson released their first debugging tool for it over a century ago. The application remains illegal for some odd reason I don't really understand.
Ah yes, the original 'point and click' interface for remotely managing stupid.
And it is illegal now you say? My apologies but from the place I hide to avoid stupid, we don't get many updates on all these new fangled laws.
It probably violates Amazon's one-click patent.
956 ways? (Score:3, Funny)
viagra can be misspelled many ways
in an email message.
all of them not as direct as
going and using this way of
routing the word around filters,
and not even misspelling it
Re:ok (Score:3, Funny)
In fact, almost everyone on the net is a spammer. It's kind of a secret club, where you have to pass a secret trial, to gain your secret right of entry. It's so secret, I shouldn't even be divulging this secret information.
Order your copy of the Secret Guide to Membership NOW. Only 19.99$, for 29.99$ you get the extra DvD and you own genuine signet ring!
It's not easy being a Viagra spammer... (Score:1, Funny)
They face a lot of STIFF competition!
Re:In the terribly elegant words of... someone? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Cost-benefit (Score:3, Funny)
I hope they start spamming "Meet hot and horny girls!" more then.
Re:Cost-benefit (Score:1, Funny)
But how would you contact them? via e-mail? Then how would they know it was legit? Damn spammers!
Re:Spam = spy chatter? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:ok (Score:3, Funny)
I used to be into sado-necro-bestiality, but then I realized I was just beating a dead horse.
I wonder (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder how many of those Viagra spelling variations are valid Perl code...
Re:People fall for spam? (Score:2, Funny)
..your link doesn't work :(
Re:It's not easy being a Viagra spammer... (Score:3, Funny)
Depite all that, they still try to stand up and deliver, with their heads held high.