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              Outbreak Magazine Issue #10 - Article 13 of 18
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Some More Ways To Get Revenge On Spammers
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By: kleptic <kleptic@grex.org>
http://www.kleptic.tk
AIM: kl3ptic
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Phone call flooding, fax bombing, and magazine subscription harassing
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Unlike dropcode's text in Outbreak #10 about fighting spam. Here are some 
"physical ways" to get revenge.

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Most spam is designed to sell you a product. If the spammer strips out a 
return e-mail address, the only way to contact the spammer maybe through 
a phone or fax number or an ordinary mailing address.

Because spam usually lists a way to contact the spammer, many people choose 
one of two hostile (and illegal) methods of exacting revenge on a spammer. 
One is phone call flooding, wherein your computer repeatedly dials the 
spammer's phone number, thereby preventing real customers from getting 
through. The other is fax bombing, which involves sending multiple faxes 
(usually numbering in the hundreds) to jam a spammer's fax machine with 
useless messages, giving them a taste of their own spamming. Both ways cost 
you money, but the rewards in emotional satisfaction may be worth it. 
Here's how you do it:

Just as spammers use bulk e-mailing programs to send mass quantities of e-mail, 
you can use war dialers to dial numbers over and over again. You type in the 
phone number and how often you want to call it, then the program dials that 
number over and over until you tell it to stop. You can do this for voice and
 fax phone numbers just as well. (But beware: if you overuse this tactic, your 
target can get the police and phone company to trace the calls back to you. 
So if you fear Ma Bell, use tactics to keep yourself hidden.)

For a safer but slower way to get your revenge against a spammer, copy down 
the spammer's postal address. Then fill out the postage paid subscription 
forms that come with every magazine and mail them in. Pretty soon the spammer
will get flooded with magazines and a bill for each one of them. Canceling each 
magazine subscription will waste the spammer's time and possibly wreck their 
credit rating too, once multiple magazines start reporting the spammer as 
delinquent in paying their subscription bills.

For a more automated solution for tracking down a spammer, search for a copy of 
SpamShot, Spamicide, or SpamHater. SpamShot lets you filter spam automatically 
from your e-mail account so you don't have to bother deleting it yourself. 
SpamHater automates the process of retrieving a spammer's real e-mail address and 
provides you with polite or nasty letters that you can mail back to them.


Forging a spammer's messages
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If a spammer really gets on your nerves, here's a sneaky way to make his or 
her life difficult. Open an Internet account (such as AOL) using a credit 
card (how you get that CC is your own problem). Send messages to certain 
Usenet newsgroups pretending to advertise products or services, using the 
spammer's telephone or fax number. Then cancel your account.

For example, visit the social.religion.christian news-groups, leave a message
advertising hardcore child pornography CD-ROM's or devil-worshipping books 
for sale to any "interested" parties, and leave the spammer's phone number or
mailing address. You're sure to infuriate news-group members, who will retaliate 
by sending the hate mail to the spammer. Of course the spammer won't have any 
idea why so many people are suddenly calling or sending hate messages to him.

Spammers are likely to continue haunting the internet, so you might as well have 
fun with them at their expense. Wether you decide to use hate mail, phone call
flooding, e-mail bombing, or any other vengeful tactic to retaliate against 
spammers, as long as you're happy, who cares how the fucking spammers feel?


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Shout Outs: jenny <3, lexi, dropcode, gr3p, rambox, joja, 
turbo, timeless, the enigma, radioactive raindeer, everyone on
#outbreakzine on dalnet, and #outbreak on irc.spasm.org. 
If I forgot anyone. I'm sorry.
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