What is a 'spammer robot honeypot'?

Question

Saw this phrase on a website of supposed e-mail addresses whil trying to track down an old friend

Answer 1

First of all, let's go through the words used in your question, not knowing which of them you are already familiar with.

A "spammer robot", can be several things, but is most often a automated system to «spam» messages, often in the form of advertisements, either to e-mail adresses or online fora.

In computer terminology, a honeypot is a trap set to detect, deflect or in some manner counteract attempts at unauthorized use of information systems [from: Wikipeda].

So, in short terms, it's a system to lure attackers or other malicious systems to be less effective, or to stop their activites overall.

In conclusion, the webpage you found were probably filled with fake or non-existent e-mail addresses, in a attempt to stop or redirect "spam robots", that are harvesting e-mail addresses to send messages to.

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Answer 2

Basically it is a fake site containing fake email addresses or a forum etc.

When a bot trawls the internet to find likely email addresses or forums to spam it gets the fake and sends email to the fake addresses or posts to the fake forum.

This information can be used to track down spammers or block the ip addresses spammers work from.