 Spam harvester tracking
Monday, 30 June 2008
Stumbled on this today, while investigating dodgy user agent strings:
“Project Honey Pot is the first and only distributed system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from your website. Using the Project Honey Pot system you can install addresses that are custom-tagged to the time and IP address of a visitor to your site. If one of these addresses begins receiving email we not only can tell that the messages are spam, but also the exact moment when the address was harvested and the IP address that gathered it.”
A distributed service which tracks and prosecutes spammers who scrape email addresses from websites?
Looks very promising and definitely worth looking into.
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