Spamnesty: Waste spammers' time

In plain words

Spamnesty is a tool designed to waste spammers' time by engaging them in lengthy, pointless conversations. Launched in 2016, it automatically responds to spam emails and messages with absurd, time-consuming requests that keep spammers occupied without providing any useful information. The project is intended for anyone who receives frequent spam and wants to turn the tables on scammers through automated frustration rather than simple deletion or blocking.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Have you ever received a spam email? If not, I would definitely recommend getting your own email address, the positives usually outweigh the negatives. For the rest of us, who have had an email address for more than two minutes, spam is a real problem. I’ve found myself wanting to reply to spam messages many times, just to see what would happen, and to waste spammers’ time a bit. That’s why reading Brian Weinreich’s post Two years spamming spammers back resonated with me. The summary is that he built an app for his personal use which would reply to spammers and engage them in a dialog of canned responses, trying to string them along for as long as possible, leading…from stavros.io

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