Getting REVENGE on email spammers?

Question

About twice a day I receive junk email in my inbox. I get so angry that I want to get revenge on these spammers. So lately I have been taking their email addresses and signing them up for every possible daily email newsletter. I know that their emails are probably just "decoys", but still, maybe I'll get lucky and actually annoy one of them.

Is there any other good revenge out there? Any special websites or what?

Answer 1

I agree, unfortunately, that your most commendable efforts are for naught. I, too, understand the sense of utter helplessness when I have to endure unwanted email showing up in my account. Yahoo does a pretty good job sending most of it to the "bulk" folder, but there are still a couple that weasel their way in.

What I fantasize about is some small group of "Super-Hackers" working in earnest to rack up a good head-count on the people most responsible for spam - the people/businesses who pay to have their messages sent. The "Cy-Cops" could maybe flood their computers with spam and see how they like dealing with it.

Then maybe the "CyCops" could track the spammers down and remove them from society. Ahhh, I can see it now. You could jail them in cells where there is a constant stream of spam flashing on the walls and ceilings. You could give them access to a closed intranet where they could spam each other to their heart's content. Or, mwah-ha-ha-ha... you could put little code phrases in daily emails that would enable access to food, water, toilet paper, etc.. They would have to find these codes in emails sent to them daily. Of course, if they can't find them amidst the tens of thousands of spam messages, too bad, try again tomorrow. They would have the benefit of knowing they could enlarge their pee-pee's with a single dose of this, or enlarge their breats with some of that, whatever. If only....

Answer 2

Well all you are doing is signing up innocent people to receive more junk. Spammers use real email addresses (not theirs) to hide their true identity. If you want to see where spam is coming from, take a look at the entire email headers. I think in yahoo, there is an option to see full headers and you will have to take a look at the 'received headers' to find out the originating IP address. Once you have that, you can locate it by typing it in 'www.ip-adress.com' and it will tell you which city/country it originated from. Most likely it will be from outside of US. You really can't do anything about it besides clicking on 'spam' in yahoo mailbox. I work in email security so feel free to shoot out any questions you may have about email and such. Also take a look at 'spamcop.net'.

cheers!

Answer 3

Sadly

What you are doing is pointless. The email address of the "spammers" that are contacting you are computer system, not a real person. The spam you receive is sent on mass scale daily and is not posted by a person.

The email address are programed to not allow any emails to be received. All you are doing is wasting your time, as the emails are never delivered.

Simply report all emails of this nature as spam, and they will be blocked from further contact.

All the best

Moose

Answer 4

Quiet frankly, you are wasting your time and risking getting infected with malware. The best way to handle spam is to delete it. NEVER OPEN SPAM EMAILS!! Another reason for not opening spam mail is that once you do that, they will know you have opened it and they will know they have a "live one". Spammers do not read or receive your responses. The majority of spam is sent by computers whose owner doesn't have a clue that their computer is being used and the sender's address is spoofed.

Answer 5

A waste of time the source address is likely spoofed or he
is pumping his junk out through innocent users systems.

Answer 6

Your revenge is useless. Most spam is sent out by botnets, innocent users computers that have become compromised by malware placed there by organized internet crime gangs.

I suggest that you research (google) the word botnet as your frontier-type "revenge" is only harming and annoying innocent people!

Answer 7

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Answer 8

You're completely wasting your time. No spammer uses their real address as the sending address.

Answer 9

SPAMer's use fake addresses to send emails from, so you aren't doing any good. I like the thought though.

Answer 10

Go Girl!