They make a lot of money. Normally there's some url hidden in the crap, and if people go there they make 2 cents from google adverts. If they spam 2 million per day, and the turnaround is 0.1 percent, then they get a good income. Sometimes they also harvest email replies, and working email addresses can also be sold to other spammers and scammers for about 5-10 cent per piece.
On 7 Mar 2011, at 12:05, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > Hi, > what I would like to know is what intention do have bots (the humans behind > the bots) to make useless entries into blogs or - in my case - in signing > on to get a newsletter with non existent nonsense email addresses. The only > sense in that behavior I can think of is that there must be any kind of > forms where robots _do_ have any advantage from and all the other entries > (like in my newsletter) are just "collateral damages" > But up to now I couldn't imagine any sense behind that and couldn't find > anyone who could tell me. But I am sure you can! > Tiemo > >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode- >> boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Keith Clarke >> Gesendet: Sonntag, 6. März 2011 21:39 >> An: How to use LiveCode >> Betreff: Re: On-Rev antispam (& reCAPTCHA) >> >> ...I concur, what great ideas: >> a) language-independent, random simple maths questions that humans need to >> understand; >> b) deliberate hidden password field to capture bots; >> c) obscure names for login fields to confuse bots; >> d) simple validation repeat fields. >> >> I've learned so much about programming and logic from the creative bunch > of >> people on this list! >> Best, >> Keith.. >> >> On 6 Mar 2011, at 13:54, Medard wrote: >> >>> Medard <liste.r...@medard.on-rev.com> wrote: >>> >>>> What are your thoughts about that? >>> >>> Thank you for all your responses! >>> >>> Me too, i dislike Captchas, and I am glad of your suggestions! >>> >>> Medard >>> >>> -- >>> lectures.medard.on-rev.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription >> preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
