Patent ID: 7970845

Claim:
A system for inhibiting or suppressing delivery of undesirable email messages through vulnerable systems comprising: an emulator that emulates one or more vulnerable systems that can be used by spammers to relay, forward or otherwise send undesirable email messages to target systems; and one or more modules associated with the emulator, the one or more module configured to intercept undesirable email messages that spammers attempt to relay, forward or otherwise send to target systems using one or more of the emulated one or more vulnerable systems, determine whether intercepted undesirable email messages are test messages sent by spammers, prevent at least some intercepted undesirable email messages from ever being relayed, forwarded or otherwise sent to target systems using one or more of the emulated one or more vulnerable systems, and relay, forward or otherwise send to target systems at least some intercepted undesirable email messages that are determined to be test messages sent by spammers, in order to make it appear to spammers that undesirable email messages are successfully being relayed, forwarded or other sent to target systems.