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[jeffery]

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[Pop`]

Graham Mayor wrote:

Of course it is: But, what did YOU do about it?

Spam report id 2004579860 sent to: (e-mail address removed)
Spam report id 2004579876 sent to: (e-mail address removed)

 

[aalaan]

But do those reports ever lead to anything? I get 'share purchase'
spams/scams by the hundred every week (complete with reams of meaningless
drivel -- why do they do that?). Is there any point in reporting these
spam/scams? What actually gets done?

 

[aalaan]

Further to that, I also get offers by the hundred every week to improve my
erection (!) but I would think editing a book on garden trowels is more
likely to do that then the stuff being touted (again complete with reams of
meaningless drivel - incomplete nonsensical sentences, reams of 'keywords'
that aren't and other stuff the purpose of which entirely defeats me). Off
now to edit a book on garden trowels...

 

[Pop`]

It's sort of a catch-22. One or two complaints won't usually get noticed
much. Several complaints in a short period of time often result in the
person being banned at most reputable places.

Pop`

 

[Pop`]

From that, I'd say your email address/es have made it to the millions CDs
and are being bought/sold on a daily basis and the amount of spam you'll get
will probably only increse. It's too late to do much about it on those
email accounts. There likely is nothing you can do to get rid of it short
of getting a new email address AND learning how not to expose it to
spammers.

If you're intersted in how to keep spam at bay, MS has lots of good info,
Google will get you lots of links. Also google for "safe hex" for even more
info.

The very first think you need to do is remove your real e-mail address from
newsgroups! Spammers have software that does nothing but scan newsgroups
looking for addresses to add to their list of addresses.
Then get a free throw-away email address from any number of places, and
use that whenever you must give an address to a place that isn't a trusted
relative or person; never use your main email address for siging up for
things, anything.
Then get a new email address that can't easily be guessed by software,
known as "dictionaired" by the spammers. They found aalaan, so they're
probably also sending to every form of that name imaginable, and then
appending 1, 2, 3, ... 9999 to the names to get the duplicates.
The safest username against dictionary spam is one with digits in the
middle of it somewhere, like aa456laan. Those become very hard to guess.

But that's only the tip of the iceberg.
www.webopedia.com/TERM/s/spam.html
wikopedia.com search for spam
spamcop.net
cauce.org
microsoft.com
spamabuse.net
abuse.net
spamfighter.com
winpatrol.com
spamlaws.com
spamassassin.apache.org

etc etc etc. Many good, many bad; most make good reading on how to protect
yourself.

HTH

 

[aalaan]

Thanks Pop. But aalaan is not my email address. I already follow your
recommendations. But *once* I inadvertently posted my real email address on
a newsgroup, years ago in fact. So I know what's causing the problem. It is
not an option to change that address as it is now well known in my industry.

But what still puzzles me is why much spam has reams of nonsensical
sentences attached.

 

[ChrisM]

The nonsensical sentences are just a 'smoke screen' to try and trick spam
filtering programs into thinking the emails are genuine. The Spam Filter
sees a whole lot of what (to a computer) seems to be normal non-spamming
text, (The actual spam is often in a picture attached to the email) and so
lets it through...

Chris.

 

[aalaan]

OK thanks, I see. I am getting a heap of stuff today entitled ralph here ,
jack here and so on, touting shares. In fact this share scam must be the
biggest scourge of the moment. I only get a promise to improve my erection
about once a day now