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After another 40 spam emails in my junk folder today and one phishing email that go through my filter, i was so upset about all those internet criminals that i started to fight back this one phisher that got through. Its of course another banking phishing email containing spoofed informations from a german bank. In fact they even hit the correct day for the announcement because this bank really changes its security mechanism from TAN to iTAN today. Anyway. I know its childish and i know its most likely totally useless but i just programmed a 20liner thats spawns 11 threads where each of them filling out the phishing form with pseudo data every second. Of course i also tried some SQL injection thingies with this phishing PHP script butt unfortunately i couldnt hack this thing. Sadly i am using allways the same input data (a non-real person with all its non-real postal data and some TANs) so it will be easy to wipe all my records out with one "delete" statement. It would be definitely better to randomly create good looking addresses and to insert them instead. But if he records the IP, even this is useless. Anyway, i can hope for some DB overflow or something ;-)

All in all its quite useless but most of you should know this feeling when you realize how much spam arrives in our mailboxes. All in all its a ridiculous situation. SMTP will be our death sooner or later.