I *WANT* to receive spame

Discussion in 'Software' started by adamlange, Oct 16, 2008.

  1. adamlange

    adamlange Private E-2

    That's right... I want to receive spam. I'm doing a school project that involves me setting up a free email account somewhere and trying to receive spam.

    Does anyone know of a quick and easy way to receive tons of spam?

    Thanks!
     
  2. musksnipe

    musksnipe Guest

    Post your email address all over the internet.
    Do this by registering for all of those internet offers.
     
  3. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi

    As well as signing upto newsletter and the less savoury websites on the net, setup this dummy email account with a real name ( common user names ), eg. Billbloggs @ ....... com or similar when posting your email on a webforum or blog as the spam harvesters pick these up and also the random spam email generators pick real names easily.

    Once you have some spam or friends have some, get them to forward the emails to you and as Muskie said above register at those sites.

    Also post your email address on Usenet/Newsgroups as in the likes of alt.hacker alt.warez etc
     
  4. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    addendum to above


    Before I forget, in any spam emails your sent or forwarded to you, remember to click the Unsubscribe option in them if available as this is just like saying to a spammer, "hey this email address is real, please forward it to all your spam buddies"
     
  5. duckfeet

    duckfeet Corporal

    Just be real careful, that yours is the *only* email address on your "mail" program...cuz eventually, if yer going unprotected--as you might very well be...one of those "spammers" is going to have more malicious intent, and when you open--or even look--at one of those "BESTBUY VIAGRA!!!" or "YOU HAVE MALWARE, DOWNLOAD ANTIVIRUS2008 FREE VERSION!!!!" etc., what they really will be wanting, is all the *other* email addresses in your account...and anything else they want, including--if yer not careful--to use your computer to send spam to all the rest of the world--including yer pals--while you are unaware...or sleeping...or whatever...

    So anyway, sounds like fun, and best wishes to you, just remember, there are some slick, very savvy, internet robots, just waiting to get into unprotected computers, and tho "spam" is something we all sort of deal with, there are other things that can piggyback on it, if I'm not careful...so I'd make sure, that in effort to get *spam*, I didn't leave my computer open to worse critters...
     

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