[Air-L] Setting Up a Honeypot

[Brian Dear]

Gmail's spam detection is indeed good, but it routinely gets 4-5 false
positives per week just from messages to this AoIR list, so I have to sift
through my spam folder regularly and click "Not Spam."

- Brian

On Friday, May 12, 2017, Maurice Vergeer <m.vergeer at maw.ru.nl> wrote:

> I don't think that's a good idea. I just checked a gmail account I set up
> over a year ago, without using it. And no spam turned up. Google has one of
> the best spam detection software there is. Most of it will not even reach
> your spam folder. On a daily basis, my regular gmail account only shows 4
> to 5 spam emails.
> The best think might be to setup a emailserver without a spam filter. Then
> make sure to publish your email on a webpage and maybe in some discussion
> groups and wait.
>
> Another more sophisticated option seems to do the job you want:
> https://github.com/shiva-spamphttps://github.com/shiva-spampot/shiva I
> have
> no experience with the software but you might want to setup a VM and try it
> out.
>
> hope that helps.
> Maurice
>
> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 7:44 PM, Richard Forno <rforno at infowarrior.org
> <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > A better way to collect spam would be to either setup a GMail account and
> > subscribe it to anything and everything you can -- and then wait for the
> > spam to roll in. LOL      Or, you could play with some of the spam corpus
> > collections out there perhaps.  (ie http://csmining.org/index.php/
> > spam-email-datasets-.html)
> >
> > -- rick
> >
> > > On May 12, 2017, at 14:33, Roderick Graham <
> > roderickshawngraham at gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > >
> > > AOIR List:
> > >
> > > I am interested in collecting spam emails for analysis.  Does anyone
> know
> > > of a "how to guide" or website that gives a tutorial on setting up a
> > > "honeypot"?  I know that the basic idea is to create fake emails...but
> > > after that I am kind of in the dark.
> > >
> > > Rod Graham
> > >
> > > Roderick Graham
> > > Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
> > > Old Dominion University
> > > 6012 Batten Arts and Letters
> > >
> > > Norfolk, VA 23508
> > >
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