OT: Interesting Emails - Page 3

Electrum · #1 January 11th, 2005, 09:59 PM

I usually recommend to my friends that, when they get their main E-mail account from their ISP, give it ONLY to immediate freinds & family, telling them not to pass it on w/o talking to them first. Then I suggest that they open a free accout like yahoo or hotmail & use it when asked by Online sites for an address. That way when it fills w/ junk, they can dump it & start a new one easily.

Fyron · #2 January 11th, 2005, 10:44 PM

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Baron Munchausen said:
Yep...

Now that I use Mozilla for my email instead of Outlook Bug-Express I have set it to NOT load images and other URLs in emails. You are just telling the spammers that they have a live one when you look at the email unless you deliberately disconnect before viewing it.

I generally get several spam Messages a day but nothing like what most people get. I managed to keep my email address very private/restricted for a long time so I didn't get much spam and was still using OE out of habit/inertia. But I got a 'phishing' attack email that loaded some sort of automatic script (invoking IE despite my default browser being Mozilla) and tried to send me to a website in China a few months ago and that was it for OE. Now I'm using Mozilla and Mozilla mail exclusively. No more Ieeee or Oeeee problems for meeee!

I tend to have Iexplore.exe blocked by my firewall.

Kamog · #3 January 11th, 2005, 11:06 PM

I get those strange cryptic Messages too that seem to be just a collection of random words. I also get Messages with mystery attachments that I immediately delete.

Baron Munchausen · #4 January 12th, 2005, 03:36 PM

Yeah, I also have taken to blocking the 'Windows default' browser in my firewall. Only when I need to visit Windows Update do I unblock it.

tesco samoa · #5 January 11th, 2005, 07:48 PM

i get none as well.

geoschmo · #6 January 11th, 2005, 09:09 PM

I used to get 50 - 75 a day at work. Changing isp or email wasn't an option. Someone here mentioned a product called "IHateSpam" and let me tell you the difference is amazing. I get just a few a day now and they are quickly dealt with by one click. Some mornings I open my email and there are no spam emails in my inbox. It's so nice.

Ragnarok · #7 January 12th, 2005, 01:22 PM

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geoschmo said:
I used to get 50 - 75 a day at work. Changing isp or email wasn't an option. Someone here mentioned a product called "IHateSpam" and let me tell you the difference is amazing. I get just a few a day now and they are quickly dealt with by one click. Some mornings I open my email and there are no spam emails in my inbox. It's so nice.

I believe that was me that suggested IHateSpam. We love that product here at work as NO spam makes it to our inbox. One user gets about 200+ per day in his spam list but none gets by the system.

Baron Munchausen · #8 January 11th, 2005, 10:38 PM

I've had a degree of success in reporting scammers to their email providers, btw. When you get those 'give us your bank account number so we can transfer funds out of the country' Messages just view source (to get the real point of origin in the headers) and send them to abuse @ <source> -- BOTH the email reply-to address (because that's the pickup/contact point) and the actual source for the email. It only takes seconds and lots of ISPs will respond by at least closing the account(s) involved. I have substantially reduced the amount of this sort of spam that I am getting by being persistent with this counter-measure.