Innovation Award
 July 2006
Number 9 |
Spam is nowadays a growing concern for publishers of sites that need to provide contact addresses in their pages.
Spammers use robot programs that crawl Web pages to find and extract those contact addresses.
One way to detect whether robots have crawled and collected addresses from pages to send spam messages is to use spam trap addresses.
Spam trap addresses are not of real people. They can be associated to mailboxes processed by automated programs that can keep track of the sources of spam. Similar messages sent from the same source are very likely to also be spam.
This class can generate pages with spam trap addresses that can be used to later to track spam sources.
Manuel Lemos |
This class can be used to generate pages with e-mail links pointing to spam trap e-mail addresses.
It can be used with mod_rewrite conditions to redirect unwanted crawling bots to a different spam trap domain.
In the spam trap domain the class can be used to serve pages with bogus e-mail addresses either in the form of mailto: links or plain text e-mail dresses.
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