the HoneySpam project is now live

I would like to thanks Subdriven & Panaman from the Pauldotcom.com irc channel for volunteering to help with this project.

The basic goal honeyspam.com is to find out why people click on links in spam and develop better training. I started this project less than 24 hours ago (at time of posting) and I am pleased to have others showing interest. Stay tuned.

-- Tim Krabec
Kracomp.com

No Patch for Human Stupidity

Situation:Email
Sender: Not recognized
Subject: Nonsense
Body: Link only

Pop Quiz:
A. Click the link
B. Delete the Message
C. Send it to Spam
D. Adjust the Spam filters on the server

If you picked anything but A you are smarter than Bob's co-worker.

What makes people do stuff like this? Why? Would they walk up to a building in a strange neighborhood and open the door and walk in, just because? Are these the same people who go to the wrong address and wonder why the people who they are looking for are not there?

Well to answer those questions I got the brilliant Idea to start a new Honey project. www.honeyspam.com Coming soon. I envision this project as a collection point for surveys where fake spam is sent to co-workers or clients to find out why people are clicking on links in spam, so that we can develop better methods of training.

Tim Krabec
Kracomp.com