Unsolicited Commando is a FREE distributed software system that fights Unsolicited Commercial Email(UCE), commonly known as 'spam'. Unsolicited Commando is not a defensive system like an email filter. It is unique in that it is purely offensive. It works by filling out the forms on websites that have been advertised by UCE with bogus data, data that is 'real' enough to pass a cursory inspection, but not 'real' enough to have any value to anyone.
Unsolicited Commando is specifically designed to fight spams that advertise sites that are trying to gather information about you. These often include sites that offer to refinance/eliminate your debt or sign you up with some sort of get rich quick scheme. These UCEs are rather lucrative, generating about $20 per valid lead from loan companies. If the good data is burried under the mounds of believeable BS that Unsolicited Commando provides then the mass-mailer must work harder to validate the data by placing thousands of phone call to false numbers. If the data is sold without verification then the mass-mailer's reputation is ruined. Either way, Unsolicited Commando generates casualties.
Because voluntary cooperation is required from the general public I need to gain your trust that my software won't explode your computer. For this reason the source code will be made open to the public and the Java bytecode will not be run through any sort of Java-obfuscator. I want all willing participants to be able to understand exactly how my software works if they so choose.
Unsolicited Commando does NOT engage in placing false orders, using false credit card numbers, using false bank routing numbers, or false social security numbers. Unsolicited Commando does NOT engage in identity theft. Unsolicited Commando is NOT used for flooding, mailbombing, or other deliberate attempts to overload or crash a host or network. Unsolicited Commando ONLY fills out forms on websites that have been advertised by UCE(unsolicited commercial email), forms which I have been authorised to use by virtue of the fact that emails have been sent to me requesting that I use them.
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