From: "Dallas L. Engelken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Craig McLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hey folks, I was having a thought about phone numbers in spam
messages, and the old brain pinged an idea at me. I'd really
appreciate any feedback!
It occurred to me that I get a fair amount of spam which
includes phone/fax numbers. It also occurred to me that given
a string like "Number:+447031916662" (from real spam), then
we could strip out the phone number and do a lookup thus:
mail# host 447031916662.evilnumbers
447031916662.evilnumbers has address 127.0.0.2
(real dns lookup to a specially created "evilnumbers" zone)
And hey presto, it would work just like a URIBL would.
I'm no perl hacker, so what are the odds the current URIDNSBL
code could be re-used to perform this? Would any of the SURBL
guys be interested in hosting the back-end if it's worth doing?
Comments welcomed. Thanks for your time!
We had this discussion at uribl.com - RE: phone number/email address
contacts zone... for those spams that try and have you contact them
without using uris. We just never took any action on it, because it
would take a lot of manual feeding of the zone file.
If it were a bigger problem, we may take action, but most hardcore
spammers don't want anything to do with land line. Now email address
contacts may be another story, where they could then set up an
autoresponse system to feed their message back to the people who
actually email the contact address.
<< Actually there is (at least) one chain of phone numbers well known
in the 900 number industry for scams. Parsing off area code "419" and
posting a warning about it or adding points for it would be a really
good thing. Many of the islands served by that areacode indulge in
phone scams associated with VERY high per minute connection rates.
{^_^} Had a 900 number for awhile - gave up on it. If it ain't
fortune telling or sex it makes no money.
