Spamming spammers – with PHP.
September 1, 2006
I have a nasty habit that is born out of my petty and self destructive instinct for revenge: I spam spammers.
I’ve (like many of you,) have been and still am subject to constant spam attack. But not just one ‘style’, I actually get spammed on all fronts:
- Email spam.
- Blog spam.
- Forum spam.
… it seems that the spam world considers me to be a ‘spam-licious’ target.
REVENGE IS A DISH BEST SERVED WITH PHP
Being an ubernerd … I got me some options to reflect the pain back to my assailants: php mail() and a for loop!
Check it out:
$str = “Automated response From: Killersites.com – you (spammer@some_domain.com) have sent us spam messages … not nice.”;
for($i=0; $i < 250; $i++) { $did_send_mail = mail('spammer@some_domain.com','Automated Response From: Killersites.com System', $str); } - Nothing special in the php code here. But it holds a special place in my heart. 🙂 Now whenever I see it as required, I fire off this script to the lil' bastard that spammed me. Their lucky I don't slap another zero or two in the loop count: 250 -> 2500 or even 25000!
DOES IT WORK
Well I tend to get much fewer repeat offenders since I’ve been doing this.
