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(#4) A 77-Year-Old Man Beat His Spammers At Their Own Game
When 77-year-old Herman Marmon received an email from someone calling themselves Davidson Boone, purportedly a representative of Budweiser, he was instantly suspicious. Boone had a business proposal for Marmon, saying he could get paid if he agreed to cover his car in Budweiser advertisements. Marmon ignored the email, but a short while later, he received a similar pitch from "Samsung" that offered him $350 a week for up to three months.
Marmon decided to play along, and soon enough this spammer was sending him false checks for a hefty sum of money. Marmon did his best to waste as much time as possible, and eventually called the spammer out on the scheme.
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(#8) A Redditor Managed To Take Control Of Their Spammer's Car
Not all spammers are trying to get money out of you. Take the case of Redditor /u/F3nman, who discovered that someone was using their email address to sign up for spam. The Redditor was fed up with the spam emails, but had little to no means of counteracting them. That is, until the spammer signed up for a Sirius XM radio service, not knowing they had just given the Redditor access to their car's horn.
F3nman started honking the horn whenever other Redditors requested it, before eventually leaving a note in the app: "stop using my email."
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(#9) Brian Weinreich Made A Bot That Never Stops Asking Spammers Questions
If your goal is to waste a spammer's time, you probably don't want to waste too much of your own in the process. Luckily, Brian Weinreich worked out the perfect solution. He created an automated system that's designed to waste time by sending the spammers an unending series of questions. This encourages the spammer to keep in contact and protects the time you might have wasted replying to them.
The Sp@mLooper, as it's called, is an open source program with which anyone can tinker. It sends a series of questions every time it receives an email. Some examples are:
"Hmmm... I like what you're saying, but can you provide me with just a little more information? Looking for specifics."
"Very nice! Where abouts are you located?"
"Wow! This sounds like an awesome opportunity. Can you tell me a little more about it?"
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(#10) A Redditor Led On A Spammer For A Month
If spammers are to be believed, Nigerian princes are in constant need of financial assistance. One former Redditor detailed their attempt to "help" one such spammer. They admitted to keeping the spammer occupied for several months as they strung them along.
The spammer asked for money orders through Western Union, and the Redditor was happy to oblige. They would tell the spammer that they sent the money to the account number provided, but the spammer would insist they never received payment. When the Redditor responded with the account number they supposedly sent money to, it was always off by one or two digits.
The Redditor continued to make the same "mistake" for a month before the spammer realized what was happening.
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(#6) A Redditor Apparently Got A Spammer Fired
Redditor /u/sledge-oatmeal-deer claims to normally ignore spammers, except on one special occasion. The man asked them to sign up for some account with a referral code, and the Redditor reacted by getting the spammer fired.
Apparently, the spammer was using his company's servers to engage in fraudulent activity, and the Redditor managed to track down the business. As it turns out, the spam messages they were being sent were far from legal, and the spammer could be fined up to $750 per message.
The Redditor emailed the company about what their employee was up to during work hours, and a little while later the man's picture was removed from the company website.
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(#11) New Zealand Web Developers Created A Tool To Frustrate Scammers
Netsafe stops spammers every day. The New Zealand-based company developed Re:scam, a service that allows you to get some sweet revenge against spammers. The program is designed to waste as much time as possible and anyone can use it.
Just forward your next spam email to [email protected]. Once they receive the email, a bot will start conversing with the spammer and pretend to be a gullible mark for as long as possible. The bot will go as far as dealing out fake information. For instance, it will send the spammer a fake bank account number, but only one digit at a time.
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With the rapid development of the Internet, e-mail has made our life more convenient, while also allowing more spammers to find opportunities to profit from spam. For various purposes, spammers will bombard the target mailbox, which would affect normal communication and cause a lot of trouble to the owner of the mailbox. More and more witty people have come up with creative ways to retaliate against spammers.
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