[Gllug] Spam

[Robert Newson]

Ian Lewis wrote:

>>I've just recveived my first spam in this email address.  
>>However, this
>>email address has *NOT* been used in a public posting area 
>>and I've been
>>extremely careful as to whom it has been given.
>>
>>Just a quickie.  Has anyone else received any spam from a 
>>"shadak shari"
>>supposedly "shadak100 at hotmail.com", "sharshadak at netscape.net" or
>>"shadakshari2 at zwallet.com"?
>>
>>
> Delete it and move on.

You mean go and create another new email address to avoid getting spam like 
the spam that now fills up my old email address (currently 100% of the 60-70 
mails a day to it are spam: I shall keep checking until the end of the year, 
for stats purposes and to check I haven't missed telling anyone of my new 
eaddr before abandoning the eaddr to fill up and then start bouncing due to 
being full).

Incidently, the fraudulent spam actually arrived for <numb>.<numb>@... so it 
was filtered out into my "unknown mail bin", but that does still require me 
to process the header and decide it was spam as opposed to being able to 
download any message that arrives without worry.  These spam "£^&*%&^£$'s 
are using my computer's power without paying for it.

> To be of any interest at all though you should post the email headers which
> will give some, possibly, useful info. From this you might be able to see
> which IP address originated the email then email abuse@ for them to deal
> with.

Already done.  All four idental content [fraud] spam traced back to slightly 
different IPs - obviously a zombie farm?

> Just delete it and don't be surprised if you receive more emails like it from
> other email addresses.

And abandon another nice email address when it becomes too much hassle...

Damn Spammers.  They are a "'bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first 
against the wall when the revolution comes'...Curiously enough, an edition 
that fell through a time warp from a thousand years in the future defined 
Spammers as a 'bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall 
when the revolution came.'"  [misquoting HHGTTG ^_^]

> --
> Ever tried, ever failed. No matter. Try again, fail again. Fail better
>  - Samuel Beckett 

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