Project Honeypot
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Project Honey Pot is a system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from a website. Using the Project Honey Pot system you can install addresses that are custom-tagged to the time and IP address of a visitor to your site. If one of these addresses begins receiving email the system can tell that the messages are spam.
Harvesting email addresses from websites is illegal under several anti-spam laws, and the data resulting from Project Honey Pot is vital for finding those breaking the law.To participate in Project Honey Pot, webmasters need only install the Project Honey Pot software somewhere on their website. Project Honey Pot collates, processes, and shares the data generated by the site involved with the web masters. The project also works with law enforcement authorities to track down and prosecute spammers. The project recently filed a billion dollar law suit against known spammers.
