Make money off Spammers

Discussion in 'General Business' started by ronburgundy, Sep 26, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hey i have a phpbb forum and i have crazy mad spammers all over it.

    Is there a way to make money off these leeches? :)
     
    ronburgundy, Sep 26, 2007 IP
  2. cycloneuk

    cycloneuk Guest

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    #2
    Sell there email addresses lol apart from that then probably not.
     
    cycloneuk, Sep 26, 2007 IP
  3. Ocean Storm

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    #3
    most of their email addresses are fake or set up purely to spam they can use hundereds of email addresses.

    i had this same problem with spammers in my forum mostly putting up adult links.

    Making money from them? I dont think so!
    if it becomes to much of a problem best thing to do is set admin to approve accounts. and screen them yourself before approving them
     
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  4. thewird

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    #4
    You can't make money from them since they are bots. They don't view any of your ads at all. They're e-mail address's aren't even real, they only exist for the spam and then are gone. You can't make money from them.

    thewird
     
    thewird, Sep 26, 2007 IP
  5. ronburgundy

    ronburgundy Guest

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    #5
    A problem I have an epidemic! doscervezas.com/forum
    I even started organizing them in hopes of making money off these buggers.
     
    ronburgundy, Sep 26, 2007 IP
  6. ronburgundy

    ronburgundy Guest

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    How about the traffic driven to my forum from surfers. I can make money off of them!
     
    ronburgundy, Sep 26, 2007 IP
  7. JH86

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    Hard to do,but if you find out, notify me! hahah
     
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  8. KingofKings

    KingofKings Banned

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    #8
    I don't think you can make money off forum spammers.
     
    KingofKings, Sep 27, 2007 IP
  9. sudarshannus

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    LOL no way,you cannot make money of them!! get a good moderator to get them off
     
    sudarshannus, Sep 29, 2007 IP
  10. richy11

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    #10
    Hire someone 24/24 and find some good plugins.
     
    richy11, Sep 29, 2007 IP
  11. gurumoorthy88

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    You cant make a single cent out of them spammers.I havent met the fate yet.Im thankful for it.:)
     
    gurumoorthy88, Sep 29, 2007 IP
  12. ScottHughes

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    #12
    The only way would be to track them down and sue them. Unfortunately, you won't be able to track them down and they are probably in some backwards country where you can't pursue them legally.
     
    ScottHughes, Sep 29, 2007 IP
  13. tushardhoot1

    tushardhoot1 Active Member

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    Well, if its all spammers, redirect them to some shit site or porno or something. They're bots anyways.
     
    tushardhoot1, Sep 29, 2007 IP
  14. Timby

    Timby Well-Known Member

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    Would be cool if you could make money off them :D I'd be rich by now if you could, I get like 10 fake accounts a day, not to mention the guest posters :)
     
    Timby, Sep 29, 2007 IP
  15. latino_heat

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    #15
    hack emails and become rich as fast as you can
     
    latino_heat, Sep 29, 2007 IP
  16. webmasterlabor.com

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    Hmmm maybe mod the posting sequence so they have to look at ads first?
     
    webmasterlabor.com, Sep 29, 2007 IP
  17. primeelite

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    You need to change you captcha from the default one they give as well as make a button to put I am human or I am not human and the bots are made to go through phpbb default sign-ups and will leave your site alone.
     
    primeelite, Sep 29, 2007 IP
  18. easterwolf

    easterwolf Well-Known Member

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    #18
    People saying you can't make a single cent from spam is simply ignorant. I have made money off of spam in my inbox, in fact it paid for about 15% of a new SUV last year with adsense. So yeah, you can, I don't know about forums, but for inbox emails, oh yeah, lowly but surely.

    You can actually make money from everything lol it just depends on where/how you are marketing it.
     
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  19. affordnow.com

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    If you have a problem with spammers. Make those special questions on sign up. It should prevent about 60% of spammers.
     
    affordnow.com, Sep 30, 2007 IP
  20. Winagain

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    #20
    the best thing to do would be to add a captcha.
    that way you stop all bots.
    You can spot the others easily
     
    Winagain, Sep 30, 2007 IP