14 DAY TRIAL // Craigslist can be a treasure trove of email addresses and spammers are well aware of it. Cybercriminals are currently offering a wide range of DIY email-address-harvesting tools, developed especially for the popular classified advertisements website.
Webroot presents a list of tools currently being commercialized on the underground market.
Experts say the applications are particularly interesting because they allow users to customize searches. Spammers can also benefit from a wide range of features, including outsourcing the CAPTCHA solving process, proxy support, and searches based on specific keywords.
They can also find out how to avoid the collection of anonymous Craigslist emails.
Check out the gallery to see what the email address harvesting tools look like.
The best way to protect your email address against such tools is to utilize Craigslist’s “email anonymization” feature.
