spam, are members of this forum getting an inordinate amount?

[upscan]

I am getting an inordinate amount of spam, much of it from Africa with offers of money and more recently, offers of sex. This being the only forum I participate in I have to wonder why I am being the target and would like to know from other participants how they fare. I am aware that the word 'photography' has a porno connotation in some circles as you can readily verify from a google search. Thanks

[wayne__]

define inordinate. I now use this email address for site only, but I

used to use it on newsgroups, etc. I get 20-30 spams PER DAY on this

account, 99 percent of them are from Korea. Moral: never use an

address you want to remain spam-free on sites like this, or Usenet.

 

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(I dont think my spam problems originated here but I could be wrong)

[psychophoto]

I get similar spam in moderate numbers, generally at least 15

messages per day. However, I don't get the spam on the email

address I post with here. Rather, it's my hotmail.com address,

which in ways is just asking to be spammed in that it's a hotmail

address. On the odd occasion I do get spam at this address, I

am absolutely ruthless about getting myself off of mailing lists,

etc. and setting up filters if necessary to automatically delete

messages from specific addresses and servers.

[sandy_sorlien]

It's not from this site. I get almost no spam, maybe 1 or 2 a WEEK.

[wes_carroll1]

I don't get much, and none from other countrys. I also belong to two

other forums.

[steve_baggett]

Anywhere your email ID shows up (usenet, independent forums, etc.)

can be "mined" by software used by spammers looking for valid email

addreses. You can set up your news reader and/or browser to

promulgate a "phony" email address to these groups by including

something such as "nospam" within the name and indicate this should

be removed by any "real" responder. This will foil the "mining"

software to a certain degree. Also, never click on the link titled

something like: "click here to unsubscibe or stop these messages" as

this will do nothing more than confirm your email address as valid to

the spamnmer and he can then sell it for more money, i.e., confirmed

addresses are worth 3 times unconfirmed addresses when spammers

consolidate their lists for sale. Email filters work to certain

degree also but they work mostly on the "sender" field which is

routinely changed by high-volume spammers to get around this. It's a

fact life.

[eric4]

I had noticed an interesting thing with my hotmail account If you go

to Options-personl profile, you will see, down near the bottom of the

page three boxes. Somehow these were changed as I did not nor would

not want to share my email address and personal info with others.

Some other people here, university, have had the same thing happen.

If you have hotmail you might want to check this out and correct it.

After unchecking the three options, I noticed a small decline in spam.

[bob_moulton7]

I too am getting a lot of this spam recently but not at thios email

address. instead it arrives at me work email. I do sign onto this

page through that account from time to time, but strangely I never

receive the spam at this--home address. go figure!

Good news is the labels are so crude one can delete them all quickly.

Bob

[dan n.]

Hi all... me too I get a lot of spam which I hate... I dont' know yet

how to stop them... but I kow for sure one of the way they find us...

here it is...

 

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go to http://www.google.com/ and type in your email adress... simple

as that...

 

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as the previoius post said... "it's a fact of life..." I would

add..."very very sad...and horrible"

[wayne__]

what baffles me is this: Are there really people in this world stupid

enough to even read spam, let alone but something because of it?

Sadly, the answer must be yes, or it wouldnt pay for there to be so

much spam in the world. I'm amused because 99% of my spam is in a

language I cant even read

[alpshiker]

Wayne, we ought to read that stuff for you never know what good surprise comes along in the mail! I was

recently offered by the son of an african dictator who needed to discretely send some savings abroad to

send him my full bank numbers and details so that he could send me 17 millions of $ from which I was offered a

generous 25% for my help. I would have loved to help him but my bank accounts are already packed up with all

the money some other Nigerians guys sent me a while ago. Seriously, some naive people got caught and lost

hundred of thousands with these guys! Julio, I occasionally get spam, but no more than 3-4 a week. The rest is

sent by authorized sites. Last week though, I received many emails with weird titles and no content visible on

Mac, but from the time they took to pass, I know there was some bad stuff in them. Soon after that I received

Symantec's news letter with a warning about a worm that spreads in the mail and automatically send emails to

the addresses in your address book. Some say the antivirus companies are the ones who spread that stuff.

Really? I'm not sure...

[brian_c._miller]

http://www.spamcop.net/

 

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Go there to report spam!! It's what I use with my account at work.

Also, they will sell you (cheaply) spam-free accounts from which they

will screen out all the spam.

 

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There are also many products which will screen spam, and if you are

hip with Unix (is that a contradiction?) and you can telnet to

whatever server you use, you can use .procmailrc to screen out a

bunch of stuff. I use it at work to eliminate plenty of garbage.

[gary_meader]

I get a small amount of unwanted mail, but not any more since I

satarted on this forum. What I learned the other day is when the

note gives you an option to be removed from the senders

mailing list, don't go for it. It only serves to tell the sender that

they have hit an active e-mail accoount. If you do nothing, they

figure it's a dead account and usually won't bother with it again.

And as has already been posted, stay the heck away from those

offers of instant wealth in exchange for your bank account

number. It is hard to believe people fall for that, but they do.

[todd_west]

I get roughly 1.5 megabytes of spam a week. How would I ever tell if photo.net's made the volume go up?

 

<p>Brian, writing procmail rules isn't all that useful. Much better to use it to pipe to <a href="http://spamassassin.taint.org/">SpamAssassin</a> or a similar tool.