How do spammers harvest your e-mail address?

By Jeff Huang
Backed by Ben Chestnut, Alex Vaschillo, Mike Longwell, Anukul Veeraraghavan, Audrey Roy, Dustin Chang, Dan Knox, Thibaut Labarre, Kristy Katzenmeyer, Bo Lu, and 5 other backers
University of Washington
Sammamish, Washington
Computer Science
Tax Deductible
DOI: 10.18258/0009
$5,191
Raised of $900 Goal
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Funded on 5/31/12
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Update #10: Understanding the obfuscation techniques used!
March 27, 2013
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Update #9: Some charts and finding
January 11, 2013
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Update #8: Behind the scenes
November 11, 2012
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Update #7: 3333 Spam emails received!
November 2, 2012
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Update #6: 500 Emails posted
October 25, 2012
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Update #5: New milestone
September 27, 2012
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Funding Success!
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