I just found lists of thousands of email addresses...

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by chulium, Mar 5, 2006.

  1. #1
    Hey all,

    Sorry if in wrong forum.

    I don't know if these are real or not; some may be, some may not be; but I DO know that a couple email addresses from my domains are there, and this might be where I'm getting some spam from!

    After exploring a little more, I've discovered at least 25 lists with hundreds; maybe thousands of emails in them... pretty crazy. Now the ones at my domain aren't necesarily real, but I filter all emails to my main account, so I still get the spam.

    It's not linked to on the site as I can see, but www.am-best.com is where the list is. You can find the one where my domain is at... on this list: http://www.am-best.com/honeypot/honey015.htm

    I've been up to honey025.htm - and there may be more.

    What are these emails for? They could be used to be sending spam... anything we can do about this?

    -Matt
     
    chulium, Mar 5, 2006 IP
  2. TheHoff

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    Careful... it might be a trap!


    :D


    (google honeypot)
     
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  3. chulium

    chulium Well-Known Member

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    What's a google honeypot?
     
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  4. chulium

    chulium Well-Known Member

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    ....anybody know?
     
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    Err google search google honeypot?
    Theres over 27,000 emails on that page.
     
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  6. chulium

    chulium Well-Known Member

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    Oh. So it's something that hackers used?
     
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