Fighting Fake-Personalized Spam With AI Sinkholes

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · Sep 17, 2026 · 36m

Pseudo-personalized spam is the new inbox tax: messages that scrape your public work, fake a personal connection, and pivot to a one-sided ask. This episode digs into Daniel's two-layer proposal — a classifier agent that flags pseudo-personalized outreach, and a "sinister" second agent that keeps spammers in an endless, never-converting conversation to burn their resources. We walk through what actually goes in the sinkhole agent's system prompt, why scraping artifacts and mismatched specifics are the best detection signals, and the precedent hiding in infrastructure history: Nepenthes-style…