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January 14th, 2005 by Kelson. Posted in Spam

Three days ago I created a bunch of new spamtrap addresses at work and posted them in hidden places on websites where no one would actually see them. Today, two of them received requests for help moving large sums of money out of Nigeria.

Yesterday afternoon, I signed up a couple of sites with Project Honeypot. One of them has already been spidered 6 times (though two of those were Yahoo).

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