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HoneytokensHoneytokensPosted Jul 31, 2003 17:00 UTC (Thu) by jimwelch (guest, #178)Parent article: Honeytokens The first I heard of this idea was decades ago when a Junk Mail hater fought the resell of his info by using different First and Middle names (initials) for each subscription (smail) then he would sue them when this set of info showed up on a piece of junk mail. Still works!
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Honeytokens Posted Aug 2, 2003 2:31 UTC (Sat) by jmason (guest, #13586) [Link] BTW, this is common in the anti-spam world as well; create "spamtrap" aliases, seed likely areas with those addresses -- such as embeddingthem in HTML comments on webpages -- then wait for the spam to arrive. Any mail to those addresses is virtually guaranteed to be either spam or a virus, since no human being should know they exist. Any direct marketing mail to those addresses is especially likely to be spam, since they would never have "signed up" to a list.
Honeytokens Posted Aug 2, 2003 23:53 UTC (Sat) by simonl (subscriber, #13603) [Link] So this is what you mean: ?- Set up a few spam target emails, and spread them around. This would probably be the most reliable spam killer. Are any spam filters using this yet?
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