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eukrobert
20-11-2008, 10:32
Hello,
You don't understand the hatred i have for such people lol :) its a group of people that disgust our world with filth & steal from people, the laws should be tougher.
I certaintly have no problems passing information onto authorities of spammers and would love to see alot more convictions.
Bring back the old skool medieval stretch devices and make these people pay!
lol :D
bedotnet
20-11-2008, 11:54
Im sensing someone just sat and sorted through his morning email :)
I have to agree, but I do use gmail to field most of my traffic and it does do a very good job. Never seen any legitimate email being stopped by it and it fields around 1000 a day into my spam box -- which I every now and then pop on and "delete all"
What concerns me more -- is people stupidity when it comes to email
"it says its from my bank, they must want me username, password and pin cause they forgot it" :) Sadly I work in an office where this is common.
eukrobert
20-11-2008, 12:34
Im sensing someone just sat and sorted through his morning email :)
I have to agree, but I do use gmail to field most of my traffic and it does do a very good job. Never seen any legitimate email being stopped by it and it fields around 1000 a day into my spam box -- which I every now and then pop on and "delete all"
What concerns me more -- is people stupidity when it comes to email
"it says its from my bank, they must want me username, password and pin cause they forgot it" :) Sadly I work in an office where this is common.
lol yep its a pain...AVG is what i use which is pretty good use it on low settings as im scared incase an important email gets transferred to spam instead.
forums, comments, emails, guest books.....grr they get where dust can't get! :D
DPS Computing
20-11-2008, 13:13
lol yep its a pain...AVG is what i use which is pretty good use it on low settings as im scared incase an important email gets transferred to spam instead.
forums, comments, emails, guest books.....grr they get where dust can't get! :D
AVG is very good - especially at detecting viruses with attachments - 100% success rate for me :-). Used in conjunction with SpamAssassin I've found it extremely effective with only a few bits of spam getting through. Like you Robert, I am worried about missing an important genuine e-mail due to it being filtered so I have also set the settings to be reasonably modest.
eUKhost.com
20-11-2008, 13:53
Spammers won't stop as they get superb response to their spams. One of our staff member came to me with some of his relatives from a Village area and they asked me to look at some documents. I started reading one of those documents and stopped when i came across "£650 Million" lol lol lol :D
They were upset with me as I continued to laugh at that document. My next question to them was "did you communicate with these people?" and their answer was "Yes, we've sent our passport, driving license & bank account documents to them".
It was mentioned in that email(printed) that their relative expired in UK and they were asked to send documents to an address in Nigeria. These people sent all their documents to the Nigerian address and wanted me to help them get "£650 Million" which was left by their relative. ;)
Spammers won't stop as they get superb response to their spams. One of our staff member came to me with some of his relatives from a Village area and they asked me to look at some documents. I started reading one of those documents and stopped when i came across "£650 Million" lol lol lol :D
They were upset with me as I continued to laugh at that document. My next question to them was "did you communicate with these people?" and their answer was "Yes, we've sent our passport, driving license & bank account documents to them".
It was mentioned in that email(printed) that their relative expired in UK and they were asked to send documents to an address in Nigeria. These people sent all their documents to the Nigerian address and wanted me to help them get "£650 Million" which was left by their relative. ;)
lol. There's nothing without stupidity ;).
bedotnet
20-11-2008, 14:35
Spammers won't stop as they get superb response to their spams. One of our staff member came to me with some of his relatives from a Village area and they asked me to look at some documents. I started reading one of those documents and stopped when i came across "£650 Million" lol lol lol :D
They were upset with me as I continued to laugh at that document. My next question to them was "did you communicate with these people?" and their answer was "Yes, we've sent our passport, driving license & bank account documents to them".
It was mentioned in that email(printed) that their relative expired in UK and they were asked to send documents to an address in Nigeria. These people sent all their documents to the Nigerian address and wanted me to help them get "£650 Million" which was left by their relative. ;)
OMG they must be in the same place as my dead nigerian relative :) and they won the same amount of money lol.
A real life example - albeit clever:
The company I work for has a website with our Vat number on -- a spammer used that and sent in an email possing as the inland revenue. Which was expected communication coming up to audit time.
It had the inland revenue images, layout seems normal and a buttons to login.
So you click the buttons -- appears to take you to the right place and login and it fails then redirects you to the real website (second login goes in fine)
They have however now captured the login. Ony suspicious thing I noticed first was that when you hovered over the image it was hosted on a free chineese image site.
Hello,
You don't understand the hatred i have for such people lol :) its a group of people that disgust our world with filth & steal from people, the laws should be tougher.
I certaintly have no problems passing information onto authorities of spammers and would love to see alot more convictions.
Bring back the old skool medieval stretch devices and make these people pay!
lol :D
Looks like me n DPS are gonna be banned :P
TBH I get about one spam a week through spam assasin on eUK's servers. On my old email addy that I got from the ISP it was about 200 a day :S
DPS Computing
20-11-2008, 16:23
Ah thats nothing. I have at least 4 nigerian relatives whove named me in their will every week ;).
Lucky man, drinks are on you!
Ah thats nothing. I have at least 4 nigerian relatives whove named me in their will every week ;).
lol...that already makes you a multi millionaire :clap:
DPS Computing
21-11-2008, 11:16
Lucky man, drinks are on you!
lol...that already makes you a multi millionaire :clap:
The checks always bounce after they've stolen my identity ;).
The checks always bounce after they've stolen my identity ;).
hmm... must be some type of banking problem? :hammering::biggrin:
Lord of the Teapot
22-11-2008, 14:27
For what it's worth... Over the years I have noticed that the longer your e mail address, the less spam you receive.
For what it's worth... Over the years I have noticed that the longer your e mail address, the less spam you receive.
I tend to agree with you on this. Apparently spam bots generate email IDs that make sense, so they use names and surnames which are quite common.
Keeping a primary email address private and getting a free email address for general purpose cut down too much spam to private email address, ( example: for directory submission I have created a seperate free email address ) which is not used for other purpose, also creating email add with combination of numbers, letters and other characters is difficult to track down by spammers. Also while buying stuff online, or signing up for a membership or something remember to ( Uncheck ) the pre-selected check boxes, these are few method by which you can minimize spam.
DPS Computing
24-11-2008, 08:22
hmm... must be some type of banking problem? :hammering::biggrin:
Yes I assume so... I mean they won't have conned me.... right?
For what it's worth... Over the years I have noticed that the longer your e mail address, the less spam you receive.
Yes I agree. But then theres the flip side that this addresses are less valuable, catchy, in demand and also harder for you and your friends to remeber.
I tend to agree with you on this. Apparently spam bots generate email IDs that make sense, so they use names and surnames which are quite common.
Wow. David and Smith - guess I'm screwed. I've always fancied being called David MooVache though ;).
Wow. David and Smith - guess I'm screwed. I've always fancied being called David MooVache though ;).
Well that would atleast make you less susceptible to be spammed if not completely immune ;)
DPS Computing
24-11-2008, 21:14
Well that would atleast make you less susceptible to be spammed if not completely immune ;)
I'll get the documents prepared now ;).
I'll get the documents prepared now ;).
:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:
lol
DPS Computing
25-11-2008, 19:35
:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:
lol
Any suggestions for a new first name to make me even more immune? ;)
Any suggestions for a new first name to make me even more immune? ;)
How about Darian MooVache or Declan MooVache? :D
DPS Computing
26-11-2008, 19:42
How about Darian MooVache or Declan MooVache? :D
Darian MooVache is probably the most immune sugestion so far :).
So thats the leader at the moment - any advance on that? ;)
I used to get loads of spam everyday... since I added spamassin I get roughly upto 5 a day now.
Some very intersting one recently was where they spelled Viagra etc downwards with non spamable words in a colour the same as the background e.g
[Very]
[Intelligent]
[Apple]
...
..
I have activated both akismat and spam karma2 plugin for my blogs, spam is under control in some extent but yet could not get rid from potential spammers those posing as genuine users. They use reputed site url such as google.com/live.com in website address while commenting to avoid getting filtered by antispam tools and leaving bunch of spammy links in comment. :-x
DPS Computing
27-11-2008, 13:11
I used to get loads of spam everyday... since I added spamassin I get roughly upto 5 a day now.
Some very intersting one recently was where they spelled Viagra etc downwards with non spamable words in a colour the same as the background e.g
[Very]
[Intelligent]
[Apple]
...
..
That is a reasonably intelligent trick for the stupid people that spam! :spam:
I get around 20 a day across all my addresses that arn't flagged as spam. Which is very good. I don't get them to auto delete as I'm always worried that one time a really important e-mail will get tagged accidently and then auto deleted and I'll never know :(.
I have activated both akismat and spam karma2 plugin for my blogs, spam is under control in some extent but yet could not get rid from potential spammers those posing as genuine users. They use reputed site url such as google.com/live.com in website address while commenting to avoid getting filtered by antispam tools and leaving bunch of spammy links in comment. :-x
Yes, I know what you mean, I've experienced things like this on my forums / blogs also. At the end of the day spam can never be eliminated in these cases without restricting the actions of genuine users. Its a fine balance.
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