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in thread Enough is Enough - Taking the fight back to the Internet scammers

The idea was not so much DOS just to 'hide' the real data in a sea of rubbish. The idea of the sleep was so say you ran it for a day or two every 60 seconds (load and bandwith use is very small so it does not annoy you). Even if target analyse the logs all they see is a steady trickle so all data becomes suspect over an extended period. If lots of people did just a few there would also be lots of IPs.

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Re: Re: Re: Enough is Enough - Taking the fight back to the Internet scammers
by Hena (Friar) on Oct 28, 2003 at 14:04 UTC
    Not taking sides here. But if you want to make it harder for them to spot it in logs, add some random element (included tachyons fixes as well).
    #!/usr/bin/perl

use LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua  = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $MAX_SLEEP = 5;     # max seconds to sleep
my $DEBUG = 1;
my $LOG_FILL = 20000;  # how many entries will we add to the scam log?

while(1) {
    my $IE   = sprintf "%.1f", ( 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.1 )[rand(5)];
    my $WIN  = sprintf "%.1f", ( 4.0, 4.1, 5.1 )[rand(3)];
    my $bs   = join '', map{ ('a'..'z')[rand(26)] }1..(rand(5)+3); 
    my $agent = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE $IE; Windows NT $WIN; $
++bs)";
    $ua->agent( $agent );
    $DEBUG && print $agent, $/;
    my $user = sprintf "%08d", rand(99999999);
    my $pass = sprintf "%05d", rand(99999);
    my $name = ucfirst join '', map{ ('a'..'z')[rand(26)] }1..(rand(5)
++3);
    my $word = join '', map{ ('a'..'z')[rand(26)] }1..(rand(3)+5);  
    my $url = "http://barcl.pisem.net/obr2.html?name=$name&user=$user&
+pass=$pass&word=$word&go=hm&loginButton=%20%20Verify%20%20";
    $DEBUG && print $url, $/;
    my $request = HTTP::Request->new( 'GET', $url );
    my $response = $ua->request( $request );
    $DEBUG && print $response->content;
    sleep (int(rand ($MAX_SLEEP))+1);
    $LOG_FILL--;
  die "Done!\n" if $LOG_FILL == 0;
}

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