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Where oh where are the spammers hiding?

Posted in Tech by Derek at 7:00 pm
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Curious to know where in the world some of the email spam originates from? Complements of Mailinator.com:

This map shows (in semi-realtime) ip addresses that are currently sending the most spam to Mailinator. Note: Spam counts are rounded to the nearest hundred and the map is updated every three minutes.

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Other related disposable email addresses: dodgeit, spamgourmet, and pookmail.

On a less serious note, instead of handing out one of the aforementioned disposable email addresses at the bar, why not pass out a PaperNapkin rejection address?

3 Responses to “Where oh where are the spammers hiding?”

  1. Anonymo says:

    It happened again! the next story will be about Comcast!

  2. Derek Punsalan says:

    You know I was about to say something about the spam originiating from Comcast in the screenshot… I didn’t think anyone would notice. Maybe the two stories are connected? Comcast offers free software to protect it’s own customers from other Comcast customers?

  3. Ryan B says:

    It would be cool if you could somehow see an archive and that archve is like a daily summary.

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