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Post by Original Admin on Sept 14, 2004 15:29:42 GMT -5
I get about 3000 spam mails per month on a mail account I value highly - as everyone knows its me and thats what they use.
These 3000 spam mails make it hard for me to see the important ones, and every day I have to spend time trying to get rid of the junk.
What I'd like to know is how this compares to you guys. Do you get junk mail, and if so, in what volume.
I thought it was illegal one way or the other to spam people via email these days.
When I click the "unsubscribe" button (I never subscribed in the first place anyway) - all I get is page not found or some other junk page.
Whats the score with this email - seems like one big scam to me.
Andy.
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Post by hermatite on Sept 14, 2004 15:44:13 GMT -5
Hi Andy, First, never click on the unsubscribe link. It's just a scam to let them know that what they've reached is a live address. Second, I get at least 20 spams a day. I've set up all sorts of spam filters here...I work at a major technical university on the east coast of the US...the biggest users of broadband in the world I'm told...and the institute doesn't even TRY to deal with spam. It may be illegal (I'm not sure it is actually) but tracking the spammers down is next to impossible. It's a pain indeed. Have you tried the filters? I've heard yahoo filters are also pretty good. My usual email is hotmail...spam heaven...I just check it regularly and delete delete delete. And, if you're clicking on the unsubscribe link you may just be compounding the problem.
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Post by sandsman1 on Sept 14, 2004 15:58:25 GMT -5
hi andy i use aol and once you click the little box on the bottom of the email,, it says report spam i never get another email from that same address again ---but the prob is they just keep changing there email addys so it can sneak in again but after awile it starts picking up words from the emails and starts blocking them that way i have used it for awile now and it has realy helped i usta get about 75 unwanted emails a day now i get around 5 i can deal with that hahaha
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JKowalski33
spending too much on rocks
Member since August 2004
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Post by JKowalski33 on Sept 14, 2004 16:09:18 GMT -5
yeah, sortof what sandman said, I would block the email address of whoever sent the spam, and keep doing to each one. Eventually they should slow down or stop coming in such volume.
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Post by rockyraccoon on Sept 14, 2004 16:26:45 GMT -5
i have a dsl connection through the cable co. and they have a spam filter and a program that catches any viruses and none of this ever reaches me. i can log-in to their site and see what has tried to reach me and remove it myself or after so many days it will be removed for me. i think mcafee offers an antispam program too.
kim
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Emerald
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Member since August 2004
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Post by Emerald on Sept 14, 2004 16:35:46 GMT -5
Andy, It also has alot to do with webpages where your email address might have the mailto:link embedded in the code. Bots go out and search the net for the mailto: code and snatch your address from there. Many of the different forums also leave our email addresses vulnerable. When you code the website, you might want to see ways you can mask your email address from being shown. I use this site to create the code for my email address on all my webpages. wonderwinds.com/JavaScripts/anti-spam.htm(I still get alot of spam...but it's much better since I started protecting my email address on websites I do) Sure hope this helps some....SPAM...I hate it!
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Post by Cher on Sept 14, 2004 17:18:10 GMT -5
Andy, Spam even gets through the coded email addresses. They've "rebuilt" the bots to decode them too. I've had my main email addy for 9 years now and have the same problem you do, thankfully my isp has set up a spam filter and I can forward emails that they miss which they add to the filter. Now that I have my domain, I can set up different email addys so I change periodically so they become dead ends. I would suggest you get a hotmail, caremail, yahoo, whatever you can find email addy and put that on the web page for contacting you. Your spam will slowly start to subside and with the use of filters things will get better. With a web-based email such as hotmail, you can change them once in awhile when the spam gets too bad. Most spam is "supposedly" illegal but they use that loophole that's works just like the one telemarketers use. That is true too, don't ever click on the unsubscribe link, it just verifys your email as active. [glow=red,2,300] ~ Cher ~[/glow] pages.prodigy.net/bestsmileys1/signs/RockOn.gif [/img]
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bcbunny
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by bcbunny on Sept 14, 2004 17:22:38 GMT -5
Yes my cable company has a spam filter now too, and oh well worth the 1.99 a month for that and virus filter they have too.
I used to get between 400-600 spam emails a day, got to the point I didnt even want to collect my mail anymore. Now since I have the filter I get maybe 4 or 5 a day. Best 1.99 i spend every month that is for sure.
Bunny
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Post by docone31 on Sept 14, 2004 17:34:20 GMT -5
Andy. When I first started using the silicone brained anti-thistical antichrist, I knew nothing about spam. When my wife and I moved from Portland Oregon to Punta Gorda, the moving company held us hostage and it was four months untill I got any ability to get back on line. I had e-mails from sources that to this day I have never found again. The spam was going directly into my inbox. I learned, unscribe generated three more e-mails per unscribe. Anything like unscribe does the same thing. I have my filter set to maximum. I have hotmail and everything that comes to me has something that makes it stand out from all the spam. I can go from 1% in my inbox to 99% in five days with the spam. Even with all the mail hitting junk first it still gets saturated. I scan junk first, looking for any letters to me from someone I know, or someone who knows to stand out. These I will send to inbox and send a reply to get them on safe. If I have any question on a mail, I will hit Read as Unread, then open in the inbox. My antivirus and anti spyware clear all inbound open letters. I used to block but my block box filled up quickly. If there are too many and I miss one for me, the sender, usually sends another e-mail sooner or later. A couple of people from the forum tried to e-mail me and I missed it over and over. They contacted me through the forum. Spam is a nuisance. I think, however it is the price of semi instant letter writing. I also use spyware programs, and spy ware blockers. These have cut down on a lot of spammers who are generated from spyware.
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Post by krazydiamond on Sept 14, 2004 17:50:09 GMT -5
SPAM, spam. Rat and Spam.....
the older your email address the more you get the cumlative effect too!
KD
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deepsouth
fully equipped rock polisher
He who rocks last rocks best
Member since January 2004
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Post by deepsouth on Sept 14, 2004 20:39:51 GMT -5
Hi Andy , Like many others , I have had Spam too. Until I changed my e-mail address. best thing I could have done. Now with Broadband , my new provider has Spam filters in place and also virus stoppers. I haven't had a virus or Spam in over a year now. GREAT. I still have Norton antivirus just in case Jack
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Post by BearCreekLapidary on Sept 14, 2004 21:30:18 GMT -5
Hello Andy,
I am about the same as everyone else.
My ISP has a spam filter and I am able to scan through suspect emails and either accept or deny them.
I have a dsl (dedicated service line - which is a digital format line that comes in with your telephone cable).
What gets me is the spammers that send their *!#@* and it comes in on my email address ... like I sent it to myself. I still have not figured that one out.
Good luck,
John
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Post by docone31 on Sept 14, 2004 21:41:19 GMT -5
John, I am not a 'puter guru, however when I got the spam e-mails sent to myself from myself, it was a trojan horse that exploited Windows weaknesses. There was no fix for a while. If one was opened, it would load the remainer of the trojan horse and your 'puter automatically was an open port that would bypass the firewall. Also a lot of those trojan horses are bridged to spyware. There is one that reoccurs that I have to cancel the safe point on my program to remove. Back when I first went on line, I did not know about viruses, spam, spyware, cookies, etc. I got hit by SirCam, and another one that wiped out the system for 24hrs and displayed "You cannot play on line today". A lot of my spam mail disappeared with Adaware, Spybot, and Spyware blocker. I have used these for a few years and they are good.
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Post by cookie3rocks on Sept 14, 2004 22:00:39 GMT -5
This is a new computer, and spam is few and far between, but it's just a matter of time. My ISP has a spam blocker, plus it tells me if it believes an email is junk. But anything with an attatchment is junk, so that doesn't really help. Maybe I should consider a spyware blocker, before it's too late. cookie
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RiverOtter
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Post by RiverOtter on Sept 15, 2004 0:18:11 GMT -5
My ISP has a spam blocker too. Unfortunately for me it was considering even emails from family as spam. When I attempted to exclude them as spam it wouldn't do it. I eventually had to have the isp shut down the spam filter on my account. Seems I was the 1 in 100 that had problems with the filter. Figures, it's always me. Now I just use the heck out of the rules wizard in my Outlook. I can usually filter out about half of the spam that way. At least it gets it down to a manageable level.
Otter
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rollingstone
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by rollingstone on Sept 15, 2004 2:18:06 GMT -5
Hey Andy,
3000 spams per month, eh? Let's see, I was up to about 50 per day, which I guess would be half your rate.
Now I get about 2 or 3 per day, certainly manageable. This reduction is in part due to installing some junk-mail filters -- Spamnix and Norton anti-spam, to be precise. But the biggest impact was when my local ADSL provider (TELUS) put in their own spam-filter (at no charge, at least for now). This really wiped out spam to a minimum, and remains very effective after 6 months or so of operation. So maybe you just need to find a service provider that takes the whole spam issue very seriously, and let them block it for you?
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Post by BIRDSEED on Sept 15, 2004 2:45:24 GMT -5
What's the problem? With Yahoo e-mail spam is called "bulk mail" that you can auto-empty each time--takes a nano-second...
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Post by Original Admin on Sept 15, 2004 8:57:47 GMT -5
Tonnes of ideas and solutions in here. Cheers all.
I have the following installed :-
ISP - Uses Yahoo bulk mail filters. The 3000 per month in my outlook is only around 10% of what I actually get. In total there are around 30,000 junk mails sent each month.
I actually got a reprimand of my ISP (like its my fault???) due to mail overusage.
Norton - Checks for virus attachments etc.
Adware 6 - Stops adware and spyware etc.
But yes - Its probably robots trawling the net years ago when I used to put my mail address on things like CV's online thats done it.
Not the end of the world - thanks for the advice throughout though.
Andy.
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Post by Cher on Sept 15, 2004 10:16:57 GMT -5
Andy, You should get "Spy Bot Search & Destroy" also. It will find things that Ad-aware sometimes misses. You probably know this but just in case, make sure you click on the globe in the Ad-aware program and update the reference file. I check for a new ref file at least once a week. [glow=red,2,300] ~ Cher ~[/glow] pages.prodigy.net/bestsmileys1/signs/RockOn.gif [/img]
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