Fight back email scams with Rescam

[dantheman]

As per this article, simply forward your spam to me@rescam.org
https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/10/16632724/scam-chatbot-ai-email-rescam-netsafe

Interesting article on this:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/10/new-zealand-chatbots-artificial-intelligence-scam-conversations

Hope it's the beginning of the end for spammers.

[nite_monkey]

I wish I knew about this service sooner. I've always just ignored all the scam emails I get, since they all go straight to my junk mail folder. I've seen a few Nigerian scams in there. The next time I notice a scam email in my junk mail folder, I'm gonna have to try out rescam.

[IainB]

@dantheman: Thanks!
Potentially very useful, me@rescam.org made me smile, but the "Lenny" call had me LOL several times.
Brilliantly simple.
Reminds me of a firewall monitor I once used (called "Blackhawk", or something) that intercepted hackers auto-pinging the modem, logged the sending IP address and started sending a stream of pings right back. Kept them busy for hours.

[dantheman]

A drop of relief in a sea of stupidities...
https://thehackernews.com/2017/11/necrus-scarab-ransomware.html

[tomos]

A drop of relief in a sea of stupidities...
https://thehackernews.com/2017/11/necrus-scarab-ransomware.html

no comprende - where's the drop of relief?

[dantheman]

It's in there!

Reminds me, might need to have my eyes checked.

[tomos]

[Deozaan]

I'm with you, tomos. But this did just give me an evil idea:


Fight back email scams with ransomware.

[dantheman]

Wish there were something similar to do with phone messages.

Sometimes, i wonder if these scammers don't buy a list of phone no. people have canceled and use them as kind of bots.

Be curious though to hear scammer reactions to this re:scam thing.

[Deozaan]

I'm with you, tomos. But this did just give me an evil idea:


Fight back email scams with ransomware.

It seems I'm not the only one who had this idea:

"Infecting a scammer's PC with wannacry"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFiBzHMAkmU

P.S. I haven't watched this video. I just saw the title/thumbnail. I make no claims as to the quality or veracity of the content.