Where does CTScleanmail get spam for analysis?
To guarantee that we always have a generous supply of spam to analyze, we do all of the following (and more) to ensure a steady flow of spam: (WARNING: The following actions are guaranteed to generate spam. We strongly suggest you don’t try them yourself.) We ALWAYS “unsubscribe” using links found in spam emails that arrive at our traps. Phony unsubscribe pages are one of many techniques used by spammers to harvest email addresses. We ALWAYS open our spam email, so spammers can confirm that they reached a valid email address and will send more. We ALWAYS visit the links found in suspicious email. We ALWAYS browse the web on a computer with all its ports unprotected so the website can easily interrogate us and determine which domains to send mail harvests attacks against. We ALWAYS checkout everybody’s “webcam”. We ALWAYS sign-up for giveaways, contests, freebies, mailing lists, and anything else we can find on every website we visit. We ALWAYS use common first and last names as the mai
