Responding to Spammers — The Internet Strikes Back
“More specifically, spamming is dependent on the presumption that 99.99% of spams that get tossed out are simply and silently tossed out. However: what would happen if instead of silently ignoring all of the spam we received, we simply chose a very small percentage to respond to with red-herring data?
Pretty simple — they’d have the same problem that SPAM causes with E-Mail … a bad signal-to-noise ratio. If the success rate on calls for people interested in mortage renewals fall below 1%, mortage companies currently buying from spam clearing houses might as well turn back to cold calling.”
From Kuro5hin. A brilliant idea. Except you’d get into an arms race: for every spam you opened, your email address would be sold to yet another spammer. Still it’s better than hiding and deleting and cursing silently as people steal your address and make a profit off it.
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