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Date: Thu Jun 15 01:06:53 2006 From: michaelslists at gmail.com (mikeiscool) Subject: Phishing and Spammers On 6/15/06, Geo. <geoincidents@....net> wrote: > I would appreciate hearing a little feedback on this idea. > > It strikes me that phishers and spammers have a vulnerability that we have > not yet exploited. They collect information, granted the returns are small > but since email is cheap they send out tons and those tons net them a > profitable return. > > Why not encourage everyone to reply to phishers and spammers with fake > information? Get a spam, order it using a fake name and credit information. > Get a phishing mail, go login to change your ebay/paypal password with fake > credentials. > > GIGO, you know? I mean if they are getting a 1% or 2% return then if the > same ratio were to respond with bad information it would make a lot of work > for the folks profitting from these activities. blue security ... -- mic
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