What's the best way to annoy phishers?

[Borris]

Like most of us, I receive the occasional spoofed email, purporting to be ebay or paypal, and I also like to have a little fun with them.

I'll always go to the spoofed sites (provided they don't have identifiers in the link to show that my email address is reasl), and type little messages to the scammers, either to give them the false impression that they have been successful, or just to insult them with as much venom as the english (and a few other) language permits.

Another thing I have tried, when the page coding allows, is to have a username / password combo that is a few pages in length.

Does anybody else bother to taunt them, or is it just me?

 

[DannyDan]

i write abuse to them too

 

[taliesyn]

The best way to annoy them is just to ignore them.

 

[Arcade Fire]

On a tenuously related note:

Wasn't there a guy who kept getting junk through the mail with freepost stickers on it, who opened all the envelopes, mixed up the contents and sent them all back? That sounds vaguely amusing.

 

[fatiain]

On a tenuously related note:

Wasn't there a guy who kept getting junk through the mail with freepost stickers on it, who opened all the envelopes, mixed up the contents and sent them all back? That sounds vaguely amusing.

Been there, done that.

Fun with junk mail.

Dog ends are funny.

 

[Arcade Fire]

You could send them paving slabs.

Well, you could if you thought they'd be worth the effort it would take to send a paving slab through the post.

 

[gib786]

You could send them paving slabs.

Well, you could if you thought they'd be worth the effort it would take to send a paving slab through the post.

thats a damn good idea! next time i get annoying freepost envelope thing i'll fill it with gravel and send it back

 

[dirtydog]

Been there, done that.

Fun with junk mail.

Dog ends are funny.

The trouble with that is that junk mail can be subcontracted, so the people who receive all the crap back are not the ones who are responsible for choosing to send it to you. I used to work for a mailing company which sent out circulars on behalf of lots of companies (BA was one) and the return address was our address, not BA's.

 

[fatiain]

The trouble with that is that junk mail can be subcontracted, so the people who receive all the crap back are not the ones who are responsible for choosing to send it to you. I used to work for a mailing company which sent out circulars on behalf of lots of companies (BA was one) and the return address was our address, not BA's.

Oh, it's suddenly not as much fun now....

 

[Capt Doufos]

Surely if EVERYONE who got these mails gave them duff infomation, they would never be able to sort through it all to find anything that is correct.

 

[MrMoon]

The trouble with that is that junk mail can be subcontracted, so the people who receive all the crap back are not the ones who are responsible for choosing to send it to you. I used to work for a mailing company which sent out circulars on behalf of lots of companies (BA was one) and the return address was our address, not BA's.

the companies that send this on behalf of others are just as bad imo

 

[Jake 2.0]

what i do is i put a real name (not mine obv) and a password.. do this couple of times and then start abusing saying i am not gullible and swearing blah blah!! atleast i get some satisfaction out of it!

 

[Aliboy]

I've been tempted but then realised that they are just not worth the effort

 

[dirtydog]

the companies that send this on behalf of others are just as bad imo

I'm not sure how you work that out.. but put it this way. The people who work in the warehouse for minimum wage dealing with the returned envelopes with fag ends or abusive messages written on/in them, aren't the people to blame The people who are really "to blame" don't see that stuff.