Are you tired of receiving spam? Do you wish there was some techniques you could use to to get revenge on those mealy-mouthed punks? Here’s five ways I present to have fun at screwing with spammer’s heads:
5. Respond with false interest
Here’s something to try, if someone just sent you an email claiming you need Viagra, tell them you would like to place an order on 100 subscriptions to it. And have them send it to a false address, preferably somewhere offshore and remote, so by the time they send it out, it’ll be to late.
But make sure you don’t use your real name, credit card numbers, etc. There’s no way you’d want them to gain hold of that information.
4. Spam them back
What is the primary reason spammers choose to spam? For money and business reasons. So if you concoct a plan to re-spam them back. Here’s what to do:
- If someone places a “Visit My Website” Comment on your blog or forum, first get a hold of their IP addresses to make sure it’s really the site owner or admin spamming you.
- Next, do some brief research on what their site is all about
- Then, visit their site and do the exact same thing, maybe even double the effort.
You should have a ball watching them work fast enough trying to clean everything up.
3. Mock them
Sometimes you may receive spam in a public place on the internet (such as a discussion forum, for example) promoting their product or website. Most of these spam messages will probably contain incoherent phrases in blog plugin posts or traffic generation posts.
Note however that this only works with the moderately intelligent spammers, as some just decide to spam and never return.
2. Locate and Destroy Social Manipulators
John Alexander uses this method on StumbleUpon and it guarantees to get some pretty nasty replies.
Some people like to spam social media sites for their own benefit with offers like “Stumble You, Stumble Me” (Which are against their Terms of Service, BTW). So why not have some fun and uncover their evil intentions to the rest of the social community?
1. Expose the Spammers for what they are
Take one of Adam’s blog posts for example. He captures the spammer’s information and finds some sick, twisted way to turn the tables on them.
This is an excellent way to obtain great thoughts on what to write about on his blog. So its a win-win situation for him, he gets to screw with spammers and have great website content at the same time.
Most often it’s not a good idea to “Piss Off Spammers” as often most “Spammers” don’t like to deal with little punk asses like Adam. I know I own more websites then the kid, more SERPS and .. you know I spam because that’s how you gain a quick community. SpamThePlanet!
You don’t think there’s a better way to build a community than spamming?
And what’s wrong with the tactics Adam uses?
Our old friend Varsity aka B God! Sort of like B Real of Cypress Hill, but without the talent.
Spammers don’t like to deal with smart punks like Adam because, well, spammers aren’t smart enough to keep up. Or even always know when they’re being made fun of.
So, BGOD, you claim to “own” “more SERPS [sic]” - does that mean you finally got that issue where your site was banned from Google taken care of?
Well John, it doesn’t look like he’s going to respond to our inquiries. I wonder why though?