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and kept all other agents except for faxobot out.
sure enough, within 2 hours, i recieved my first piece of fax spam.
nobody else knew my fax number, and i had just set it up 2 days prior.
it's a fax number collector.
[edited by: pendanticist at 6:28 pm (utc) on Feb. 1, 2005]
Can you definitively say that your fax number wasn't discovered by an autodialer doing sequential calls?
You said you got a fax in two hours. Did you see Foxobot in your access_log files?
I admit the timing is in your favor and in retrospect, the term sure does fit the bot.
Got lots of coding on their homepage too...
<html></html> :)
70.243.153.100 - - [08/Feb/2005:16:20:38 -0500] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 162 "http://www.faxo.com" "Faxobot/1.0"
70.243.153.100 - - [08/Feb/2005:16:20:40 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 28799 "http://www.faxo.com" "Faxobot/1.0"
70.242.147.28 - - [18/Feb/2005:09:53:12 -0500] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 196 "http://www.faxo.com" "Faxobot/1.0"
69.150.87.183 - - [18/Feb/2005:09:53:28 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 13072 "http://www.faxo.com" "Faxobot/1.0"
Whats with the changing ip's I wonder? Being stealthy or using several ISP's dhcp numbers... i.e. being insignificant.
68.94.95.150 - - [21/Feb/2005:15:23:02 -0500] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 162 "http://www.faxo.com" "Faxobot/1.0"
68.94.95.150 - - [21/Feb/2005:15:23:05 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 28879 "http://www.faxo.com" "Faxobot/1.0"
Set up a load of premium rate phone numbers, cloak a page on your website that only faxobot will see and list the phone numbers in a way that makes faxobot think they're fax numbers. :-)
