Forward your spam to sp@mnesty.com and a bot will waste the spammer's time

Firefox Focus is built on a different rendering engine, not quite fully HTMl-compliant. If your phone can handle it, full FF Mobile works well, and supports both uBlock Origin and ViolentMonkey (great for using the mute script).

https://github.com/tinoesroho/discourse_repo/raw/master/scripts/bbs_mute.user.js

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Seems to work so far?

I would swear I saw, “Asian Lady Dating” ads here. But I didn’t take a screencap.

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What do when see rampant Moosogyny?

Isn’t BoingBoing where we heard about rescam.org ? Which does the same thing?
Forward scams to "me@rescam.org", and waist their time…

https://www.cnet.com/news/this-chatbot-will-tackle-scammers-by-wasting-their-time/

Serious question, for once: if I forward a mail, from a pseudonymous acc (like this one, for instance), and spoof the alleged sender’s address - isn’t this going to be full circle? Everyone looses?

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The domain “mnesty.com” is a maritime logistics company in Mongolia. This spam service doesn’t seem like it would be a core competency.

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Absolutely. The telemarketer/scammer keeps thinking he’s just at the point of hooking this big, lucrative fish-- but, then, it wriggles off again. But not too far off. So he tries again. And again. And again.

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Just FTR, current media reports speak about scam calls asking questions like “Can you hear me? Hello? Can you hear me?” to get a clear “Yes!”. This is used to subscribe you to overpriced subscriptions of magazines and suchlike.

Confused works both ways, apparently. :frowning:

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That’s just their cover…

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How many marine ports are there in Mongolia?

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My thoughts exactly…

That is part of the point:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/spamnesty-waste-spammers-time/

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I’ve done it. I’ve finally achieved the brain-level ad-block. I don’t use an ad blocker, but I’ve never seen these, or most, ads on BB.

Oh, sure, my subconscious mind probably has a field day with all the imagery, but at least on the surface - nirvana.

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