SpamFryer reloaded
p2pnet.net News:- SpamFryer is a tiny Java application written by William Keeley.
It works along the lines of the famous, but discontinued, Lycos Make Love not Spam‘ screensaver that allowed disgruntled spam recipients to counter-spam websites touting goods and services mentioned in junk-mails.
But SpamFryer isn’t the end of it – at least, not as far as Keeley is concerned..
“I don’t want spammers to profit from harassing us so I’m going to become more and more pro-active in the fight against spam,” he says.
Now he’s working on a way for people to be able to post valid-looking, but fake, information to the order pages of websites advertised in spam junk-mail, but, “I need help.”
Keeley says he’d appreciate hearing from people in the banking industry because, “I need more test credit card numbers that pass validation checks but don’t actually deduct money from an account."
For the moment, p2pnet has SpamFryer here, or get it from Keeley’s site here.
You’ll probably already have the free Java virtual machine, but if you don’t, get it here and install it.
Then, download SpamFryer, drag it onto your desktop, double click the SpamFryer icon to open it, type in a spam-site url and number of times you want it visited.
If all else fails, move it to your c: drive root directory, open a (DOS) command window (by running ‘command’)
and type in:
- c:
- cd
- java -jar SpamFryer.jar
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See:-
Java application - Meet SpamFryer, p2pnet, December 10, 2004
Make Love not Spam – Spam the spammers: Lycos, p2pnet, December 2, 2004
December 14th, 2004 at 7:46 pm
This will also be good for spyware sites.
December 14th, 2004 at 9:42 pm
“post valid-looking, but fake, information to the order pages of websites advertised in spam junk-mail” + “test credit card numbers that pass validation checks but don’t actually deduct money from an account”
Could there be any problems with violating fraud laws here?
December 15th, 2004 at 1:57 pm
Yes there would be if an actual attempt was made at depriving the seller or credit card number holder of money. However this is not the case here. Test numbers are used to check a piece of equipment to make sure that the equipment is communicating, accepting credit card entries, and that its validation routines are working. Since the credit card test number is designed to be declined, no money is ever intended to change hands. It is my understanding that fraud is meant to protect a victim from having money stolen by deceit.
July 6th, 2006 at 5:02 pm
Also, the spammers are *criminals*. If they came out into the open to try to prosecute for fraud, they could get hit with thousands of lawsuits for spamming. Criminals can’t rely on the law to get them out of trouble!
“Is that the police? Somebody just stole my weed!” …doesn’t work, does it?