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#1 2013-02-17 11:36:53
Attracting forum spammers to honeypot
A while ago, I ran a forum, but then I decided to shut it down. However, I kept the software running, and soon found the dead forums plagued with spambots. However, I decided to take advantage of that and report the IPs of the spammers to anti-spam sites. I currently catch like 50 spammers a day. Does anyone have any advice on how to attract even more?
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#2 2013-02-18 00:08:01
Re: Attracting forum spammers to honeypot
give them incentive! (and then backstab them)
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#3 2013-02-18 00:40:35
- nathanprocks
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- Registered: 2011-04-14
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Re: Attracting forum spammers to honeypot
I noticed that they seem to attack inactive forums.
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#4 2013-02-18 00:41:40
- jji7skyline
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- Registered: 2010-03-08
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Re: Attracting forum spammers to honeypot
That's awesome! Are these spammers real people I wonder... or just robots 
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#5 2013-02-18 00:45:48
- nathanprocks
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- Registered: 2011-04-14
- Posts: 1000+
Re: Attracting forum spammers to honeypot
jji7skyline wrote:
That's awesome! Are these spammers real people I wonder... or just robots
I ran a forum board on my website once and it got attacked by spammers. I don't think it would be possible for a human to create so many accounts and posts... but they were from different IP addresses. Maybe they use bots that create new accounts and post through a proxy server.
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