New Spam Retaliation Tool

[SickofSPAM]

To SPAMisLAME: Whilst looking for some way to stop receiving SPAM from Herbalking and My Canadian Pharmacy, I ran across this site. After reading your post, I registered so I could contact you. I would absolutely LOVE to retaliate against those disgusting "companies". I receive 20-30 SPAM a day from Herbalking -- always disguised with some person's name but always the same link to a geocities site then to Herbalking. I have tried unsubscribing (yeah, right), sending nasty messages about how I don't even need/want their product (I am a woman! lol), and filing complaints with the FTC. Nothing works. I am not all that savvy with the computer, but I CAN follow directions. Please help me to give some SPAM back to them or at least make them stop! Thanks! PS. What is TOR?

[Red Dwarf]

Complainterator Version 10 is now available from the same links as above.

The latest version has more in-built checking and more Registrar contacts.

This tool has been responsible for making life a misery for many of the major spamming operations, getting their sites shut down in the midst of a spamming run.

There have been recent examples where one spam complaint for one spam has resulted in the removal of over 200 spammed sites.

It runs under Windows, with Mozilla / Firefox / Internet Explorer / SeaMonkey as supported browsers.

[SqueekyGeek]

Thanks, Herbalist, for giving that Bank of America site a good runaround! I was going to post about that one tonight -- very authentic looking -- they need to be wiped out!

Love this site and all the info/help y'all contribute

Squeeky down South

[Bethrezen]

hi all

is there any automated tool to retaliate against forum spammers ?? see i volunteer over at the spyblocker forum as a mod and lately we have been getting spammed and its becoming rather tedious continually cleaning up after these idiots every time i log in that's not what i signed on for

i'm simply there trying to do my bit to help where i can but lately all i been doing is removing spam and as the owner of the site paul kurtland seems to be unable to do anything to stop these idiots i figured turn about is fair play and id like to ram there garbage virus porn link back down there throat

so is there anything i can do or am i just going to have to suffer till paul eventually does something about this

[Wildman oh yea]

Hit them where it hurts, they have to pay search engines, for inquiries for every spam email, search them through google or yahoo and connect through these engines.

[Red Dwarf]

Version 11 of the Complainterator tool is now available - April 11, 2007

See the EU Spam Wiki Downloads page at
http://www.spamtrackers.eu/wiki/inde...omplainterator

See the support forums at
http://thecarpcstore.com/phpbb2/viewforum.php?f=4

New in version 11 -
A new complaint message is prepared for the registrar of the spammed domain name. Previous versions prepared complaints to the regisrtrars of the name servers only.

Now the Complainterator fully complements the Spamcop tool.

With Spamcop, one spam can generate complaint messages to

* the ISP where it originated,
* to the ISP where the spammed site is hosted

In addition, with Complainterator,

* to the registrar where the spammed site domain name is hosted, and
* to the registrars who supply the registration of the name servers that sponsor the access to the spammed site

Now that is going the full nine yards.

[mhex99]

what if a company purposefully begins to spam a competitor's site in order to have that site be retaliated against by this utility? is there potential for abuse in such a way at all? because that would be rather bad.. just a thought..

[Red Dwarf]

Complainterator simply automates a process that anyone can do manually. It looks up the registrar of a spammed site chosen by the victim of a spam. It also looks up the registrar of its name servers. It prepares messages to the registrars asking them to take action. Then it lets the user decide whether to send the messages it has prepared.

That is very similar to how Spamcop works. The only difference is that Complainterator addresses complaints to the registrar, instead of the Internet Service Provider (ISP) who owns the IP address where the web site runs. In both cases, the decision to send is in the hands of the user.

If a web site is the victim of a "joe-job" style of attack, there will always be situations where complaints go in to the various providers, whether submitted manually or via a semi-automated tool. In the end, the decision to send the complaint is made by the user.