°Û °Û ÞÜ ±Û °Û °Û ÜÛÛ ÛÜ ±Û ²Û°ÛÛÛÛß°Û ÜÜÜ ±Û ÜÜ ÜÛÛÛÜ°ÛßßßÛ°Û °Û ÛÛ ° ÛÛ±Û ±Û ÛÛ ±ÛÛßßßÛܱÛÛßß°ÛÜÜÜß °Û°ÛÛÛ ÛÛ ° ÛÛ±Û ±Û ÛÛ ±Û °Û±Û °ÛÜ °ÜÛßßÛ°Û °Û ßÛ ÛÛß °ÛÛÛ ßÛÛÜ°ÛßÛÛÛÛß±Û °ÛÛÛß°ÛÜÜÛ²°Û °Û Outbreak Magazine Issue #10 - Article 13 of 18 '~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~' ========================================= Some More Ways To Get Revenge On Spammers ========================================= By: kleptic http://www.kleptic.tk AIM: kl3ptic ========================================= Phone call flooding, fax bombing, and magazine subscription harassing --------------------------------------------------------------------- Unlike dropcode's text in Outbreak #10 about fighting spam. Here are some "physical ways" to get revenge. --- Most spam is designed to sell you a product. If the spammer strips out a return e-mail address, the only way to contact the spammer maybe through a phone or fax number or an ordinary mailing address. Because spam usually lists a way to contact the spammer, many people choose one of two hostile (and illegal) methods of exacting revenge on a spammer. One is phone call flooding, wherein your computer repeatedly dials the spammer's phone number, thereby preventing real customers from getting through. The other is fax bombing, which involves sending multiple faxes (usually numbering in the hundreds) to jam a spammer's fax machine with useless messages, giving them a taste of their own spamming. Both ways cost you money, but the rewards in emotional satisfaction may be worth it. Here's how you do it: Just as spammers use bulk e-mailing programs to send mass quantities of e-mail, you can use war dialers to dial numbers over and over again. You type in the phone number and how often you want to call it, then the program dials that number over and over until you tell it to stop. You can do this for voice and fax phone numbers just as well. (But beware: if you overuse this tactic, your target can get the police and phone company to trace the calls back to you. So if you fear Ma Bell, use tactics to keep yourself hidden.) For a safer but slower way to get your revenge against a spammer, copy down the spammer's postal address. Then fill out the postage paid subscription forms that come with every magazine and mail them in. Pretty soon the spammer will get flooded with magazines and a bill for each one of them. Canceling each magazine subscription will waste the spammer's time and possibly wreck their credit rating too, once multiple magazines start reporting the spammer as delinquent in paying their subscription bills. For a more automated solution for tracking down a spammer, search for a copy of SpamShot, Spamicide, or SpamHater. SpamShot lets you filter spam automatically from your e-mail account so you don't have to bother deleting it yourself. SpamHater automates the process of retrieving a spammer's real e-mail address and provides you with polite or nasty letters that you can mail back to them. Forging a spammer's messages ---------------------------- If a spammer really gets on your nerves, here's a sneaky way to make his or her life difficult. Open an Internet account (such as AOL) using a credit card (how you get that CC is your own problem). Send messages to certain Usenet newsgroups pretending to advertise products or services, using the spammer's telephone or fax number. Then cancel your account. For example, visit the social.religion.christian news-groups, leave a message advertising hardcore child pornography CD-ROM's or devil-worshipping books for sale to any "interested" parties, and leave the spammer's phone number or mailing address. You're sure to infuriate news-group members, who will retaliate by sending the hate mail to the spammer. Of course the spammer won't have any idea why so many people are suddenly calling or sending hate messages to him. Spammers are likely to continue haunting the internet, so you might as well have fun with them at their expense. Wether you decide to use hate mail, phone call flooding, e-mail bombing, or any other vengeful tactic to retaliate against spammers, as long as you're happy, who cares how the fucking spammers feel? ============================================================== Shout Outs: jenny <3, lexi, dropcode, gr3p, rambox, joja, turbo, timeless, the enigma, radioactive raindeer, everyone on #outbreakzine on dalnet, and #outbreak on irc.spasm.org. If I forgot anyone. I'm sorry. ==============================================================