[Mimedefang] How to best populate a spamtrap?

[Kevin A. McGrail]

I would say that anything other than simply letting the spam come to you is
a bad idea and would risk tainting your results.  Things you can do to
increase the spam coming in that I can think of:

Use the email address on the public whois data.

Capture all the firstname at domain.com emails since a lot of dictionary
attacks work that way.

Put the spam trap up on a fairly popular website.

Post using the email address to public mailing lists and usenet.

OOh, and here is an important one.  Make your MX record  mail.domain.com.  A
lot of spammers have picked up on that convention and email to it with only
A records defined (i.e. sales at mail.domain.com).

That's all I can think of at the moment.

KAM



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <WBrown at e1b.org>
To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] How to best populate a spamtrap?


> mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com wrote on 02/26/2004 02:25:03
> AM:
>
> > Ok, unusual request - I'm looking for ways to get MORE spam sent to
> > a new email account: I'm setting up a spam-trap to hopefully help
> > filtering for the other accounts. Obviously, the more spam address
> > lists etc. this trap is on, the better.
> >
> > Any ideas how to best get this address used by spammers?
>
> Ask for information about credit cards and other financial services
> online.  Visit a few dating sites.
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