darkfusion
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Hmm, I've had my current free hotmail address for about 6 months now and have no junk/spam filters on, yet I've never recieved one spam E-Mail.
Spam emails getting really disgusting
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RYCeT
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Strange, I got a hotmail address and I've used it for years. I noticed that in the last 3 months, I received less spam than what I've got before. I used to received 80 spams per day but now it's down to around 15 spams.
Just a suggestion. I used inbox protector feature on my hotmail address and set it on exclusive so only emails from my address books goes to my inbox, the other goes to junk mail. That way it's easier to scan my email.
Just a suggestion. I used inbox protector feature on my hotmail address and set it on exclusive so only emails from my address books goes to my inbox, the other goes to junk mail. That way it's easier to scan my email.
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About which individual are you talking? The spammer or the spammed? Or the young girls?
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We've been getting alot of this penis enlargment spams lately too. Been wondering if there are people who see these ads and go buy penis enlargers by the spammers.
Btw Mick. Put back the Bender avatar. It was cooler.
| It sickens me that this material is being sent to me. Potentially some of this material could be of under age females and that causes me great concern. The consequences for an individual could be quite dire. |
About which individual are you talking? The spammer or the spammed? Or the young girls?
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| All this and not to mention the continuous onslaught of adverts for viagra and breast/penis enlargements. |
We've been getting alot of this penis enlargment spams lately too. Been wondering if there are people who see these ads and go buy penis enlargers by the spammers.
Btw Mick. Put back the Bender avatar. It was cooler.
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I was referring more to the receiver of the spam. In the UK if you can't prove where the images came from then you are deemed to have created it yourself and the repercusions are quite grave. The legal age for this type of material is 18 in this country (UK) but other countries are more lax on ages and some countries allow girls of 14 to perform in this way.
Of course it's also pretty bad that these girls are being exploited to this extent.
| Originally posted by marios_mar About which individual are you talking? The spammer or the spammed? Or the young girls? We've been getting alot of this penis enlargment spams lately too. Been wondering if there are people who see these ads and go buy penis enlargers by the spammers. Btw Mick. Put back the Bender avatar. It was cooler. |
I was referring more to the receiver of the spam. In the UK if you can't prove where the images came from then you are deemed to have created it yourself and the repercusions are quite grave. The legal age for this type of material is 18 in this country (UK) but other countries are more lax on ages and some countries allow girls of 14 to perform in this way.
Of course it's also pretty bad that these girls are being exploited to this extent.
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I think I got a spam mail yesterday.
That's the only one in a very long time.
I checked at my isp site, and I didn't have the filter turned on until a month ago or so.
Nobody ever sends me pictures of nekkid girls
I have an address at NRA that got spammed a few times, but nothing like the levels you guys are talking about.
That's the only one in a very long time.
I checked at my isp site, and I didn't have the filter turned on until a month ago or so.
Nobody ever sends me pictures of nekkid girls
I have an address at NRA that got spammed a few times, but nothing like the levels you guys are talking about.
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My accounts get about nothing as spam. I must be lucky.
Btw, didn't you know that spam cost about 30 billions US$ to the world economy last year ?
Btw, didn't you know that spam cost about 30 billions US$ to the world economy last year ?
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Bender's back!
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NEVER give your "real" address when doing internet buying or if you are using any EBay type accounts. when you sign up for that other EBay auction site you'll notice that there is no "do not receive spam" type of checkbox or turning off emails. if you only have 1 isp type of email account (Qwest basic DSL doesn't even have an email server and therefore clients), use a yahoo, netcape, msn email address.
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If you run a website it's essential that you obfuscate your e-mail address otherwise the spam harvesting bots will pick it up no bother.
To obfuscate your email address try an online obfuscator like http://alicorna.com/cgi/obfuscator.cgi
Hope this helps webmasters
Pinkie.
To obfuscate your email address try an online obfuscator like http://alicorna.com/cgi/obfuscator.cgi
Hope this helps webmasters
Pinkie.
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Just to give you an idea of the scale of problems for me --
over the past 45 days, I received 2987 messages classified as spam (with 1 false positive)
and I received 968 messages not classified as spam of which 388 actually were spam.
Total spam: 3374
Total non-spam: 580
So, roughly 6/7 of all my incoming mail is spam, and I catch about 85% of it with spam filters.
over the past 45 days, I received 2987 messages classified as spam (with 1 false positive)
and I received 968 messages not classified as spam of which 388 actually were spam.
Total spam: 3374
Total non-spam: 580
So, roughly 6/7 of all my incoming mail is spam, and I catch about 85% of it with spam filters.
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How does this work? Is this a redirector like www.tinyurl.com?
Or is a simple code scramble that spambots cannot read?
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| Originally posted by PinkFloyd If you run a website it's essential that you obfuscate your e-mail address otherwise the spam harvesting bots will pick it up no bother. To obfuscate your email address try an online obfuscator like http://alicorna.com/cgi/obfuscator.cgi Hope this helps webmasters Pinkie. |
How does this work? Is this a redirector like www.tinyurl.com?
Or is a simple code scramble that spambots cannot read?
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Oh boy. I've been using my real address at Ebay ever since I signed up. I wonder why I'm not getting spamed. I did use Verizon's alias system, so if I get too much I just change the name I picked and the name I used goes dead.
But, like I said, I don't get spam.
| Originally posted by wallijonn NEVER give your "real" address when doing internet buying or if you are using any EBay type accounts. when you sign up for that other EBay auction site you'll notice that there is no "do not receive spam" type of checkbox or turning off emails. if you only have 1 isp type of email account (Qwest basic DSL doesn't even have an email server and therefore clients), use a yahoo, netcape, msn email address. |
Oh boy. I've been using my real address at Ebay ever since I signed up. I wonder why I'm not getting spamed. I did use Verizon's alias system, so if I get too much I just change the name I picked and the name I used goes dead.
But, like I said, I don't get spam.
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Sometimes it doesn't matter how careful you are with your address. If it gets into the hands of one person who is less careful than you, then your address will be out in the wild very soon. There are so many ways for that to happen; for example, your contact signs you up for an e-mail newsletter, signs you up for an online contest, sends you an eCard from some site, forwards a joke to everyone in his/her addressbook with your address in the clear (i.e. not BCCed), gets a virus that hijacks his/her addressbook, etc. etc. etc.
That last one is becoming a very big problem now that spammers are routinely joining forces with virus authors to compromise machines. Reportedly, 40% of broadband users who don't use anti-virus apps and/or firewalls have had their machines hijacked by such things as 'MyDoom'. These people have no clue that their computers are now spam relays (AKA "zombie machines")... that is, until their ISP cancels their service for unwittingly breaching their TOS. In the meantime, your address has already been harvested and added to some spammer's database, all ready to be included on the next CD of a million confirmed addresses.
So, you can follow all the security procedures that you want -- it's only a matter of time before you or someone else trips up and the spam floodgates are opened.
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This would be a perfect way for someone to harvest addresses. After all, we're going to this site and freely providing them ourselves! (Don't mind me... just a bit paranoid.
)
Personally, I'd rather just put my address in a GIF image referenced by a mail script (generated with JavaScript, DHTML, etc.). Perfectly legible to humans and clickable to send e-mail, but invisible to bots (unless they somehow develop OCR abilities).
D.
| Originally posted by wallijonn NEVER give your "real" address when doing internet buying or if you are using any EBay type accounts. |
Sometimes it doesn't matter how careful you are with your address. If it gets into the hands of one person who is less careful than you, then your address will be out in the wild very soon. There are so many ways for that to happen; for example, your contact signs you up for an e-mail newsletter, signs you up for an online contest, sends you an eCard from some site, forwards a joke to everyone in his/her addressbook with your address in the clear (i.e. not BCCed), gets a virus that hijacks his/her addressbook, etc. etc. etc.
That last one is becoming a very big problem now that spammers are routinely joining forces with virus authors to compromise machines. Reportedly, 40% of broadband users who don't use anti-virus apps and/or firewalls have had their machines hijacked by such things as 'MyDoom'. These people have no clue that their computers are now spam relays (AKA "zombie machines")... that is, until their ISP cancels their service for unwittingly breaching their TOS. In the meantime, your address has already been harvested and added to some spammer's database, all ready to be included on the next CD of a million confirmed addresses.
So, you can follow all the security procedures that you want -- it's only a matter of time before you or someone else trips up and the spam floodgates are opened.
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| Originally posted by wallijonn To obfuscate your email address try an online obfuscator like http://alicorna.com/cgi/obfuscator.cgi |
This would be a perfect way for someone to harvest addresses. After all, we're going to this site and freely providing them ourselves! (Don't mind me... just a bit paranoid.
Personally, I'd rather just put my address in a GIF image referenced by a mail script (generated with JavaScript, DHTML, etc.). Perfectly legible to humans and clickable to send e-mail, but invisible to bots (unless they somehow develop OCR abilities).
D.
i get 100 junk mail for yahoo a day, ughn
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