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 What happens here once a spammer is caught?
Author: R.Lund   (10 Oct 09 2:26pm)
Hi,
I managed to install a honeypot on my site, and it finally caught a comment spammer.
A few days later I checked the IP address in more detail and noticed that it is not in any blacklist or known by any other anti spam site.
Does Project Honey Pot report any caught IP addresses at all, or is there a threshold that has to be passed before a report is filed?
Or should I as the "victim" file a report with anti spam sites?
Thanks!
 
 Re: What happens here once a spammer is caught?
Author: M.Prince   (11 Oct 09 1:27am)
Project Honey Pot publishes http:BL and feeds data to a number of anti-spam organizations. If there are particular places you'd like us to feed data, let us know and we will consider it.
 
 Re: What happens here once a spammer is caught?
Author: R.Lund   (18 Oct 09 12:57pm)
Thanks for your answer (sorry, I only saw it today).
In your experience, does it take a while for these anti-spam organizations to pick up on your feed? I'm just confused why the first comment spammer that I helped catch does not appear on the black lists under the lookup links you provide on your IP lookup page. Am I missing something? Does the http:BL data go to different sites and NOT to Spamhaus or Spamcop? Does it take multiple offenses before the anti-spam sites pickup?

Please note, I am not in any way trying to be rude (and I hope I don't appear rude), I am just wondering what I'm missing and trying to understand the topic in more detail.

Thanks!
 
 Re: What happens here once a spammer is caught?
Author: R.Lund   (20 Oct 09 11:43am)
I was also wondering if spamvertised sites are reported to the server and domain owners and registrars for removal (like Complainterator does).
I just caught my third comment spammer, and all the domains spamvertised by the offender are random letter domain names - reporting all these to the registrar who hosts the domain names and asking for removal supposedly is the best way to slow the spammers down, right?
 
 Re: What happens here once a spammer is caught?
Author: M.Prince   (21 Oct 09 1:05pm)
Many ISPs use our Monitor service in order to check when IPs the control are serving as a platform from which to launch attacks. We don't actively push reports on people who do not ask for them. Friends of ours at abuse desks tell us that sending automated reports will often just get those reports deleted. Instead, we try and make Project Honey Pot a resource that the abuse desks will actively ask to receive and take seriously.

As for registrars and their domains, that's not something we currently do but is a potentially good idea. The challenge is whether spamming a website is actually a violation of the terms of service of a domain's registration. Generally we're of the mindset that pushing something on abuse desks just makes an otherwise extremely difficult job harder and, therefore, is likely to just get deleted. However, if there are registrars that would like to receive such information, we'd be happy to make it available to them.
 
 Re: What happens here once a spammer is caught?
Author: R.Lund   (22 Oct 09 10:59am)
Gotcha, and that makes perfect sense to me.
Thanks for clearing that up!



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