Lets Post Our Email Address In Public

#trolling #phishing #education #scam

You're suffering an ever so crucial task, something you just don't have the time to tinker with and think "I know what I'll do, I'll report to the internet."  Ah such a valiant effort, jumping on Facebook, Google+, oh why not Yahoo Answers, nothing EVER goes wrong there right?  The little twist is this though, you don't have the time, nor the care to ever waste your precious minutes and return to said query and think your second most brilliant of thoughts, "lets post my email address."  Smart.

Oh sorry, scratch that, what the hell is wrong with you?  For some unknown reason there is a mentality and a belief that the internet is safe.  It is if you're not stupid of course, and it made me think, why do people do this and what can be done about it?  To start off the internet is safe within a certain level of error, sharing your personal information no matter who you are is ill advised.  If you're speaking with Blizzard customer support on the phone, which you called them, and they want to mail you something that's sensible.  If someone calls you, don't do anything ya moron.  Why is it though that in hacking forums, or IT professional forums people post this sort of information?  You all should know better, and shame on you.  Let's assume you did share your email address with the world in a moment of complete judgement failure, what could happen?

MailBait.info

For starters a little tool known as MailBait can completely fill up your mailbox in minutes, with the option of sending email twelve times a minute, up to sixty times a minute.  Before we disclose fully what and how this works, lets talk about a small disclaimer first.  MailBait is designed and purposed for testing out firewalls filtering techniques and their ability to block phishing, virus, and scams.  If there is a desire present for an influx of reading material for your own personal uses and you can't exactly pick something.  These are legitimate uses for MailBait.  As for the non-legitimate uses, its ill advised as your ip address is not hidden in non-encrypted traffic, that's what something like TOR is for, encrypting ip traffic.

Cat Facts Emailing List

Cat Facts is for legitimate use as well, for the individual who wants to learn something new about cats monthly, if not daily.  It sorts a plethora of completely useful data to the recipient.  Once again though this can be used for evil, which for the life of me I can't exactly figure out why anyone would do this.  Signing up a victim for cat facts can result in them getting an influx of cat information that you could personally use.  But hey it is a mailing list, so maybe its best you don't sign anyone up for it.  Mailing lists can get annoying, especially email ones.

DigiCrime/Spam

Strictly malicious uses, there is no good to be had here, unless of course you treat it like mailbait and are just trying to test your firewall.  The creators don't really cut corners, they say it's for someone you hate.  I don't know the validity of this service, I've never seen it in action, it could be a satirical site with no real back end to it, but in all safeness it could be used to spam someones mailbox.

Falsified Advertisements

We're going to use craigslist as an example here, suppose someone wants to prove a point, they can make a false ad on craigslist, use someone elses email address, and laugh their way to the bank with how many people will inadvertently spam the living hell out of an unknowing victims email.  It's truly tragic, you don't have a 55" plasma for sale listed at only $30 are you crazy?

Conclusion

Don't post your email address on the internet, EVER.  Someone could use any of the services listed above to come at you in horrible ways.  This post is strictly for educational purposes and the author does not condone their uses for anything other than their intended purposes.  So as a rule of thumb, just don't post your email address, simple as that.  And as always, be safe my goblins.

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