Richard Giles

What’s the deal with SpamSaver? It seems to be moving itself up the Blogdex ranks without such as a mention in anyones blog entries. Usually this means that they are using comment spam to elevate their standings. I’d normally write this type of activity off, because it has become so common place, except that the idea they are expounding seems so probable.

Within their page they link to randomly generated sites, just like http://www1082922021642.anandteck.com/. These pages contain a collection of what appear to be the randomly generated email addresses. The domains themselves are interesting. Visiting http://www.anandteck.com/ gives you a completely legitimate site. All the domains I investigated are owned by Interlink out of Rio de Janeiro, which itself has a link to SpamPoison at the bottom of the page.

So it seems entirely possible this is a legitimate exercise. If it is, I wish them the best of luck. I’d like nothing more than to cause spammers a large headache with a vast amount of bounced mail. How effective it will truly be, because lets face it, how much of a problem will this cause a spammer, is yet to be seen.