Traveling of my mailing address in spammers databases
This wonderful story began in December last year, when my wife asked my advice about one interesting promotion on the coupon site. In order to view the history, it was required to specify an email address.
Since I immediately suspected how this would end, I entered my old unused box on mail.ru. Wrote and forgot. When I checked this box in six months, the result exceeded all my wildest expectations. In the tenacious paws of the couponers, my abandoned box healed with its stormy life. Now, using this mailbox, you can trace where and how my address was later moved.
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Unfortunately, I deleted part of the letters, so it’s impossible to reliably find out the starting point - from which site it all started. It seems that it was bonusmag.ru - the first surviving letter came from them and dated 11/27/2011:
Two months I regularly spammed bonusmag. Then they were either renamed or burned out and the base was sold, but since February, instead of the bonusmaga, Bigcoupon started spamming me:
On April 9, bigcoupon was joined by Vigoda.ru:
April 18 MegaKupon.ru:
On April 25th, some MyFant wrote to me:
Further, my address has just gone hawking.
April 27 - a letter from Chevrolet (!):
May 24 - joint action by WeClever and Luxale:
May 29th - some noname-coupon with the simple title “Elena”:
Finally, on July 6, a double blow was struck - Quelle and Otto catalogs came to me:
The breeding of the coupons is still ongoing. Today, I wrote another one who wanted to easily cut the dough in the heated market:
In addition to the coupon spam shaft, there are still some ordinary spammers in the mail (literally two or three letters in the last couple of years).
Apparently, all these stillborn and newborn coupon projects are buying / tying up the bases from each other, as a result of which in just six months my box went to the bases of 11 projects. As an experiment, I tried to unsubscribe from their mailings by the links in the letters - I managed to do it only to bigcoupon, all the others said that the address to which they had just sent spam was not in their databases, or they even entered 404:
Curiously, absolutely all letters offer “female” products and services (spammers never knew that I was a man :)).
Apparently, the life cycle of such a govnostartapa is short, spam stops after a while. Only three still continue their partisan activities to increase the parasitic traffic on the Internet.
Here is a story about the circulation of spam databases on the Internet. Without any moral, just for fun.
Since I immediately suspected how this would end, I entered my old unused box on mail.ru. Wrote and forgot. When I checked this box in six months, the result exceeded all my wildest expectations. In the tenacious paws of the couponers, my abandoned box healed with its stormy life. Now, using this mailbox, you can trace where and how my address was later moved.
')
Unfortunately, I deleted part of the letters, so it’s impossible to reliably find out the starting point - from which site it all started. It seems that it was bonusmag.ru - the first surviving letter came from them and dated 11/27/2011:
Two months I regularly spammed bonusmag. Then they were either renamed or burned out and the base was sold, but since February, instead of the bonusmaga, Bigcoupon started spamming me:
On April 9, bigcoupon was joined by Vigoda.ru:
April 18 MegaKupon.ru:
On April 25th, some MyFant wrote to me:
Further, my address has just gone hawking.
April 27 - a letter from Chevrolet (!):
May 24 - joint action by WeClever and Luxale:
May 29th - some noname-coupon with the simple title “Elena”:
Finally, on July 6, a double blow was struck - Quelle and Otto catalogs came to me:
The breeding of the coupons is still ongoing. Today, I wrote another one who wanted to easily cut the dough in the heated market:
In addition to the coupon spam shaft, there are still some ordinary spammers in the mail (literally two or three letters in the last couple of years).
Apparently, all these stillborn and newborn coupon projects are buying / tying up the bases from each other, as a result of which in just six months my box went to the bases of 11 projects. As an experiment, I tried to unsubscribe from their mailings by the links in the letters - I managed to do it only to bigcoupon, all the others said that the address to which they had just sent spam was not in their databases, or they even entered 404:
Curiously, absolutely all letters offer “female” products and services (spammers never knew that I was a man :)).
Apparently, the life cycle of such a govnostartapa is short, spam stops after a while. Only three still continue their partisan activities to increase the parasitic traffic on the Internet.
Here is a story about the circulation of spam databases on the Internet. Without any moral, just for fun.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/147977/
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