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(, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 12:45)
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When I'm bored at work...
We all know about the phishing emails you get from the supposed bank, with a link to an identical looking website asking for your login details? And we never ever open these emails as we all recognise a scam by now, right? RIGHT??

Not me. I open Notepad, and copy and paste something like fuckyoufuckyoufuckyou about 1000 times. Now you go to the friendly phishing website, and as they do not have a limit on the input fields, you paste this nice lenghty message in to both the username and password fields, click login. Click back, repeat a few times.

I like to think someone on the other side scrutinising the logs will find it amusing / annoying, or feel at least caught out.

Sometimes I'm a bit of a bastard...
(, Wed 30 Sep 2009, 21:22, 3 replies)
I went through
A phase of filling in those with combinations of extreme obscenities and what I perceived that the scamers got upto behind closed doors with members of their close family.

Extra points for tailoring it to the country domain in question.

I just delete with extreme prejudice these days
(, Wed 30 Sep 2009, 21:31, closed)
Hehe :)
Careful with vigilantism though. If you spam their forms too heavily I suspect it might be seen as a DoS attack, which could get *you* in trouble with your ISP. I do like your idea otherwise!
(, Thu 1 Oct 2009, 0:27, closed)
Hmmm.......
I was told never to reply to them because then they know your email
address exists and will keep targetting you.
(, Thu 1 Oct 2009, 9:31, closed)

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