Now this is a great idea! Include email addresses on your website which are invisible to the naked eye, but
which machines can read. Specifically, machines instructed by spammers to harvest email addresses from websites,
to which they then send spam. And which they then sell.
This is the idea behind "Project Honeypot", the brainchild of Matthew Prince and others behind Unspam LLC.
Because each invisible email address is a unique email address tied and forwarding to the Honeypot project, it become
easy to track who is scraping addresses, and where they are ending up. Think RFID tags for email.
Ingenious.
Anybody can sign up to take part in this project, so if you have a website, consider doing so today!
You can read more about the project and sign up here.
To Catch a Spammer
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. neet Idea but how do I as a non web or sight master stop the 'pop up' or the spammer from installing the trackers on my comuter. Almost all the anti spam stuff adds to the spam list on my computer. And yes I've tried just about everything.
Spamed out in Vegas
Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Thomas B Carter III
1. Allo!
The Honey Pot is just another STUPID idea.
Their is enough email in the wild to fill many
spammer CD. No need to add more junk.
Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Gilles