#spamtraps — Public Fediverse posts

I added a few more translations of the phrase "The rest is trash" to the spamtraps at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml (see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_rest_is_trash.html or https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-rest-is-trash.html).

If you want further translations added, please let me know (with translation in your message).

#spamtraps #greytrapping #spamd #openbsd #freebsd #antispam #imaginaryfriends #localization #cybercrime

The list without wrapper text is available as https://www.bsdly.net/~peter/sortlist.txt (BIG! -- 22975800 entries as of right now, will increase)

I added a few more translations of the phrase "The rest is trash" to the spamtraps at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml (see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_rest_is_trash.html or https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-rest-is-trash.html).

If you want further translations added, please let me know (with translation in your message).

#spamtraps #greytrapping #spamd #openbsd #freebsd #antispam #imaginaryfriends #localization #cybercrime

The list without wrapper text is available as https://www.bsdly.net/~peter/sortlist.txt (BIG! -- 22975800 entries as of right now, will increase)

I added a few more translations of the phrase "The rest is trash" to the spamtraps at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml (see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_rest_is_trash.html or https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-rest-is-trash.html).

If you want further translations added, please let me know (with translation in your message).

#spamtraps #greytrapping #spamd #openbsd #freebsd #antispam #imaginaryfriends #localization #cybercrime

The list without wrapper text is available as https://www.bsdly.net/~peter/sortlist.txt (BIG! -- 22975800 entries as of right now, will increase)

I added a few more translations of the phrase "The rest is trash" to the spamtraps at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml (see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_rest_is_trash.html or https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-rest-is-trash.html).

If you want further translations added, please let me know (with translation in your message).

#spamtraps #greytrapping #spamd #openbsd #freebsd #antispam #imaginaryfriends #localization #cybercrime

The list without wrapper text is available as https://www.bsdly.net/~peter/sortlist.txt (BIG! -- 22975800 entries as of right now, will increase)

I added a few more translations of the phrase "The rest is trash" to the spamtraps at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml (see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_rest_is_trash.html or https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-rest-is-trash.html).

If you want further translations added, please let me know (with translation in your message).

#spamtraps #greytrapping #spamd #openbsd #freebsd #antispam #imaginaryfriends #localization #cybercrime

The list without wrapper text is available as https://www.bsdly.net/~peter/sortlist.txt (BIG! -- 22975800 entries as of right now, will increase)

The update you have been waiting for:

"Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html)

now has the complete 2025 data in place. #openbsd #spamd #greytrapping #spam #antispam #cybercrime #spamtraps #blocklists

The update you have been waiting for:

"Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html)

now has the complete 2025 data in place. #openbsd #spamd #greytrapping #spam #antispam #cybercrime #spamtraps #blocklists

The update you have been waiting for:

"Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html)

now has the complete 2025 data in place. #openbsd #spamd #greytrapping #spam #antispam #cybercrime #spamtraps #blocklists

The update you have been waiting for:

"Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html)

now has the complete 2025 data in place. #openbsd #spamd #greytrapping #spam #antispam #cybercrime #spamtraps #blocklists

The update you have been waiting for:

"Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html)

now has the complete 2025 data in place. #openbsd #spamd #greytrapping #spam #antispam #cybercrime #spamtraps #blocklists

Hm. log entries like

Sep 30 00:54:41 skapet spamd[83364]: (GREY) 171.4.7.241: <[email protected]> -> <[email protected]>
Sep 30 00:54:41 skapet spamd[83004]: new entry 171.4.7.241 from <[email protected]> to <[email protected]>, helo ns3000605.ip-37-59-46.eu

have me suspect they are actually reading my stuff such as https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html #spamtraps #greytrapping #antispam #cybercrime #spamd #openbsd

Hm. log entries like

Sep 30 00:54:41 skapet spamd[83364]: (GREY) 171.4.7.241: <[email protected]> -> <[email protected]>
Sep 30 00:54:41 skapet spamd[83004]: new entry 171.4.7.241 from <[email protected]> to <[email protected]>, helo ns3000605.ip-37-59-46.eu

have me suspect they are actually reading my stuff such as https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html #spamtraps #greytrapping #antispam #cybercrime #spamd #openbsd

Hm. log entries like

Sep 30 00:54:41 skapet spamd[83364]: (GREY) 171.4.7.241: <[email protected]> -> <[email protected]>
Sep 30 00:54:41 skapet spamd[83004]: new entry 171.4.7.241 from <[email protected]> to <[email protected]>, helo ns3000605.ip-37-59-46.eu

have me suspect they are actually reading my stuff such as https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html #spamtraps #greytrapping #antispam #cybercrime #spamd #openbsd

Hm. log entries like

Sep 30 00:54:41 skapet spamd[83364]: (GREY) 171.4.7.241: <[email protected]> -> <[email protected]>
Sep 30 00:54:41 skapet spamd[83004]: new entry 171.4.7.241 from <[email protected]> to <[email protected]>, helo ns3000605.ip-37-59-46.eu

have me suspect they are actually reading my stuff such as https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html #spamtraps #greytrapping #antispam #cybercrime #spamd #openbsd

Hm. log entries like

Sep 30 00:54:41 skapet spamd[83364]: (GREY) 171.4.7.241: <[email protected]> -> <[email protected]>
Sep 30 00:54:41 skapet spamd[83004]: new entry 171.4.7.241 from <[email protected]> to <[email protected]>, helo ns3000605.ip-37-59-46.eu

have me suspect they are actually reading my stuff such as https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html #spamtraps #greytrapping #antispam #cybercrime #spamd #openbsd

Now 8024921 imaginary friends (and counting), at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml, mainly exhumed from logs.

For the bored but not restless, https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html (also https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html) #greytrapping #spamtraps #spamd #openbsd #spam #cybercrime

heh. with another 70 weeks of log data to sift through, the count of imaginary friends at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml just rolled past seven million (also see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html or tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html) #spamtraps #imaginaryfriends #spamd #smtp #cybercrime #openbsd

Eighteen Years of Greytrapping Retrospective Published https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250812064257 #openbsd #spamd #greytrapping #antispam #security #cybercrime #spamtraps

In 2013 I wrote up "Maintaining A Publicly Available Blacklist - Mechanisms And Principles" (also https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2013/04/maintaining-publicly-available.html) . TL;DR: blocklisting is a kind of public shaming, be sure your process is verifiable and transparent.

Minor edits today, links to resources and #eurobsdcon inside. #blocklists #spamtraps #antispam #smtp #spamd #openbsd #freebsd #security #cybercrime

The symptoms of what I take to have been a #phishing campaign aimed at users in #japan are no longer that visible in the backscatter.

But they will be visible as new #imaginaryfriends in the published #spamtraps list we user for our our #openbsd #spamd #graytrapping, see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml and https://nxdomain.no/~peter/spammers_believe_in_300k_imaginary_friends.html (with the total now inching in the direction of the 5 million mark)

Welcome new imaginary friends [email protected] and [email protected] to the cast of millions at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml (served up to us today by [email protected] and [email protected], respectively).

My favorite new imaginary friend (aka spamtrap) today was however [email protected], a faked sender address.

Logs for the interested at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/blogpix/new_imaginary_friends_20250306.txt

#spam #spamd #spamtraps #greytrapping #imaginaryfriends #cybercrime #antispam

The other horribly nonsensical thing I saw during the last 24 hours was the error messages GNU Emacs emits when it is faced with a file of a size that exceeds its expected per-buffer memory allocation.

Fortunately a sane solution was found for that particular problem (split that big hand generated log into smaller pieces) - search for "this log directory" in https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml #spamtraps #greyptrapping #spamd #antispam #cybercrime #imaginaryfriends

I can report that it actually rolled past 400,000 this Tuesday.

Fun or interesting in its own way, but not quite blogworthy. The sentiments expressed in the article about the 300,000 mark are still valid, though.

See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml for latest updates. 408357 and counting.

#spam #spamtraps #spamd #greytrapping #traplist #cybercrime

For some reason I just looked up my now just over 2 year old piece "The Things Spammers Believe - A Tale of 300,000 Imaginary Friends" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/spammers_believe_in_300k_imaginary_friends.html (prettified, tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-things-spammers-believe-tale-of.html) and realized that number will soon roll past the next big round marker. #spamtraps #traplist #spam #antispam #openbsd #pf #spamd #cybercrime #bottomfeeders #imaginaryfriends

This morning had me notice a new episode of the type described in "The Despicable, No Good, Blackmail Campaign Targeting ... Imaginary Friends?" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/despicable_no_good_blackmail.html (or prettified, tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-despicable-no-good-blackmail.html), the first in quite a while, I might add.

Data so far to be perused at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/wankstortion/20241009/ (now refreshed & gzipped).

#spam #scams #wankstortion #sextortion #cybercrime #imaginaryfriends #spamtraps

331133 is a truly bizarre number in this context (https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml) also https://nxdomain.no/~peter/spammers_believe_in_300k_imaginary_friends.html or tracked with nicer formatting https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-things-spammers-believe-tale-of.html but will likely change (increase) soon #spamd #spamfighting #spamtraps #imaginaryfriends #openbsd