SPAM Fighter

Opt-in email is mail that you either requested or agreed to receive. Think about online newsletters you subscribe to, emails from companies with whom you do business, breaking news emails from CNN.com, or personal email from family and friends. That's legitimate email.
Opt-out email is completely unsolicited mail that appears in your inbox offering you "services" like university diplomas, easy credit, or mail order medicines guaranteed to jump start your personal life. To get off these lists, you have to petition the sender to remove you, hence the term "Opt-out." Of course, sometimes even that doesn't work: it just tells the spammer that your email address is valid.
Many people wonder how they possibly get on these lists. Often, the culprit are email spiders. They search through the HTML code of websites and save to a file everything that looks like an email address. They crawl through message boards, Web sites, and any online forum that might contain email addresses. The spiders search the Web until they have extracted a certain number of email addresses. Then they triumphantly crawl back to their evil masters with a list of victims.
SPAM Fighter generates a list of around 100 fake email addresses. When the robot adds the fake addresses to the list and sends out SPAM, the SPAM sender will receive around 100 return email addresses. Because of this the spammer will get discouraged since he has to search for the fake email addresses.

Limiting the spam sent to your email address: (http://www.cluelessmailers.org/info/index.html#for_email_users)
»Here are a few suggestions for keeping spam out of your inbox:
+ Don't post your email address on a web page. Use a mail form to get feedback from website visitors, and "hardwire" your address into the script, instead of adding it as an input variable in the page's form. Spammers use automated software to harvest addresses found on the Web, and Usenet, so...
+ Don't post your email address on a message board or newsgroup. Get a free "disposable" email account and use it for posting. Or, use an "aliasing" service to create a disposable address that automatically forwards to your real address. Spammers also use automated software to harvest addresses found in Usenet news groups and Web-based message boards.
+ ALWAYS read the privacy policy on a website before submitting personal info like an email address. If the policy says something about retaining the right to share your address with "our marketing partners" and/or "affiliates", be extremely cautious. You have no idea who those partners are or how many, nor do you know what those partners may do with your information once it's shared. This is one of the problems that the Clueless Mailers site deals with: the unauthorized propagation of email addresses. You may be giving permission to share the address once, but unless there's language stating exactly who will get the information, and what they are allowed to do with it -- sharing and otherwise -- we recommend that you don't submit an address or other information that you want to keep spam-free/private. And we recommend that you don't submit info if there is no privacy policy.
In fact, we recommend that you only submit a permanent email address or personal information to companies you are very familiar with. But as the Spamdemic Map shows, even these companies may have policies that allow the sharing of some or all of your info. If in doubt, use a disposable address.
We also recommend that you do not surrender your email address to a spammer for "removal" from their mailing lists. There are several reasons:
• Spammers are notorious for selling addresses to each other. When you reply to a spammer, you verify that your email address is "deliverable". This makes your address more valuable to the spammer, since deliverable addresses sell for a higher price. So, you might (or might not) stop receiving spam from that particular spammer, but there's a possiblity that you may start receiving spam from countless other spammers.
• Spammers are well-known for retaliating against those who complain about their activities. They sometimes attack a spam victim through mail-bombing— the sending of hundreds or even thousands of messages to a victim's mailbox in a very short time, filling the mailbox and making the victim's account unusable. They are also known for committing "Joe jobs", in which they impersonate you and forge your email address and/or website URL into countless spam messages. Abuse reports are filed by the recipients of those messages, and your account may be terminated for spamming, even though you never spammed.
• You have no obligation to surrender your address to a spammer. The burden of proof of permission lies solely on the shoulders of the sender... not yours. If a mailer can't positively prove they have your permission, they have no right to send you email. If the sender were using a closed-loop confirmed opt-in subscription system, they wouldn't be spamming you in the first place.
• And the spammer has already violated your trust by sending you unsolicited commercial email. Why would you want to enter into a transaction with or even communicate with someone who has already proven themselves to be unethical, or at the very least, irresponsible?
All of this is why we also recommend thoroughly removing all references to your address and identity from a spam mail before forwarding it as part of a spam report.«

Um E-Mail-Adressen für den Versand von Massen-E-Mails zu erhalten, durchsuchen viele Firmen mit Suchmaschinen den HTML-Code von Websites und speichern alles, was auf Grund des Codemusters "href='mailto:username@domainname.suffix'" als E-Mail-Adresse erkennbar ist.

Oftmals werden bestimmte Spam-Mails an zufällig generierte oder systematisch aus Namen und Ziffer (z.B Christian01@xyz.de) gebildete Adressen gesandt. In dieser E-Mail ist dann ein sogenannter "Unsubscribe"-Link enthalten. Es wird in der Mail darauf hingewiesen, dass man auf diesen Link klicken soll, wenn man keine weiteren E-Mails des jeweiligen Absenders erhalten möchte. Der Trick: Sobald der Nutzer diesen Link anklickt, wird dies auf Seiten des Versenders registriert, wodurch dieser weiß, dass die betreffende E-Mail-Adresse gültig ist. Andere Arten von E-Mails enthalten sogenannte "Web Bugs". Das sind kleine, für den Nutzer nicht sichtbare Grafiken, die beim Öffnen der E-Mail von einem Webserver nachgeladen werden. Im Logfile des betreffenden Webservers kann der Versender der E-Mail dann erkennen, dass eine E-Mail geöffnet wurde und auf diese Weise die Adresse verifizieren.
Je mehr Spuren der Anwender im Netz hinterlässt, desto wahrscheinlicher ist es, dass er Opfer von Spamming wird. Mit spezieller Software scannen Spammer E-Mail-Adressen aus öffentlichen Chat-Foren ab. Zu nennen sind hier auch bestimmte Gewinnspiele. Vielfach dienen diese Angebote lediglich der Sammlung großer Mengen von Adressen, die dann weitergegeben oder für andere Zwecke genutzt werden. Spam-Info, Web.de

Wie kann man die Spam-Flut eindämmen?

E-Mail-Adressen mit einem Alias aus wenigen Buchstaben vermeiden.
Niemals auf eine Spam-E-Mail antworten.
Verlinkungen in Spam-E-Mails ignorieren.
Virenwarnungen oder Ketten-E-Mails nicht weiterleiten.
Verzichten Sie auf all zu große oder ganz auf Verteilerlisten.
Nutzen Sie einen E-Mail-Dienst mit Spam-Schutz.

Weitere Informationen zum diesem Thema hält die WEB.DE Redaktion in einem Spam-Special bereit.

Hier ist eine Liste mit 100 Scheinadressen. Wenn diese zu der Adressliste des Spam-Automaten hinzugefügt sind und E-Mails an sie gesandt werden, wird der Absender 100 Rück-E-Mails mit einer Fehlermeldung erhalten. Dies wird sicherlich nicht zu seiner Ermutigung beitragen, mit dem unerwünschten Adressenfang fortzufahren.

Eine ähnliche Wirkung erzielt die Software "Sugarplum", die man als Webmaster serverseitig implementieren kann (empfohlen von DrWeb: Treten Sie den Spammern in den Hintern).
Eine Anwendung dieses Nonsense-HTML-Seiten-Generators habe ich selbst ins Netz gestellt: Bookmarks & E-Mail Addresses. (Außerdem erfreue ich mich selbst beim Lesen von GreissNet_latestnews.html.)
Endlich arbeitet auch YourCGI.com wieder und dient als Host für sein vortreffliches Spamfighter-CGI-Skript solchen Webmasters, die serverseitig selbst nix verändern können.

Weitere Vorschläge bitte an den Webmaster senden.

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