The Froums have been spam harvested

[Glich]

I use dispoable email adreess and the one i gave only to anandtech has now started reciving spam. anyone else goten this?

 

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[lizardboy]

I got one today for the first time.

 

[Injury]

No more than a day after I made my email visible in my profile, I started getting spam to that account. That email account was 2 weeks old and I hadn't used it for anything but paypal.

 

[Jason Clark]

Guys, there is really nothing we can do about this. You put text in the emails to try and stop the spammers they just adjust their scripts. The only solution is proper spam detection on the client end of things, and there are tonnes of solutions out there.

If you think there is a solution, post it please.

 

[lizardboy]

Not complaining, I use spambayes so this ended up in my spam folder. I just happened to be checking the folder before emptying it (I like to see what addresses are getting spam so I can blacklist any if need be), just thought you guys might like to know about it.

 

[Kyteland]

I just checked and I have one too.

The only other email I have gotten there was from the Mods when I changed my email address.

Oh well, time to register a new gmail account.

 

[MrBond]

Jason, what about one of those "Jumbled code word" images like they use at Ticketmaster/hotmail/etc to prevent automated signups? Maybe insert one into everyone's profile who has email enabled and have a box where someone can type in the code. Upon successful entry either the profile could refresh with the email address or a window could pop up with it.

I don't know how hard that'd be or how well they work. I know Network Solutions used them for a while on WHOIS lookups, but recently they stopped for some reason.

It wouldn't stop someone you annoyed from signing you up for spam, but it might slow the bots down.

 

[kamper]

How 'bout this: don't link the emails and instead putting a random word in them (like REMOVE) you put meaningless tags in:

f<span>o</span>o<span> a</span>t <span>b</span>a<span>r</span> d<span>o</span>t<span> c</span>o<span>m</span>

Which would read "foo at bar dot com" on the web page which any human can read but bots would have alot of trouble with. Or, better yet, only write the email address into the page with javascript while the page loads. Obviously you'd have to obfuscate it in the javascript a bit but that could be easily automated and then spammers would need to run a javascript engine to properly retrieve the address.

I guess, though, with all the users here, as soon as one spammer figures out what you've done this site alone is worth a new method of harvesting

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: Jason Clark
Guys, there is really nothing we can do about this. You put text in the emails to try and stop the spammers they just adjust their scripts. The only solution is proper spam detection on the client end of things, and there are tonnes of solutions out there.

If you think there is a solution, post it please.

YGPM