posted on April 4, 2003 01:23:55 PM new
Over the past 2 days, I've been innudated with porno spam emails sent to me through mailstep, which I've NEVER used!
My suspicion is that someone here has a proctological insect over me & Ralphie!
GROW UP & KNOCK IT OFF!
please...
Ralphie loves Mr Blonde:
"Are you gonna bark all day little doggie, or are you gonna bite?" http://tinyurl.com/5duz
I think everybody gets this porno spam. Lord only knows where it all comes from. Would not think that someone from AW put you on a spam list just to make your day.
Dont think anyone here is that sick.
posted on April 4, 2003 02:21:31 PM new
Just had to share this, and hopefully it will help you. I was getting slammed with pop ups when I went to ebay and a few other places too. My girlfriend found a program called Ad-Aware that scans your computer and removes the hidden program that makes some of the pop ups pop up. So far, I haven't been bothered by that many, other than the ones you always get that are website generated.
Here's the link:
http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3120-20-0.html?qt=ad-aware&tg=dl-2001
there was a person who posted here about a year ago that a couple of us offended....
she proceeded to have us slammed with all kinds of this email and then came here to laugh about it....yeh, very funny.
the email you are getting now has been coming to me for about 2 weeks now and some of it is awful. impossible to block through rules too, because the subject line and address are nothing recognizable.
posted on April 4, 2003 05:19:05 PM new
I was getting alot it,but it has pretty much stopped.I use Yahoo for e-mail.When I used Outlook Express it was really bad.
posted on April 4, 2003 05:43:08 PM new
Mine stopped for a while and now they are back and also contain the Klez virus. I don't know where they are from because I delete them immediately never to see them again, well until the next time. Don't think they singled out your Tomwii. At one time they were coming from Yahoo and all I did was send them back to abuse at Yahoo. Some days it was 10 of them. If they are going to keep that trash in their mail then they deserve them back.
posted on April 4, 2003 06:35:50 PM new
I get so much of this stuff, I couldn't tell you if it's increased or not. I use Yahoo for my mail, just for the filters.
But I still delete five times as much mail from my inbox than I actually read.
This is one of the disadvantes of having the same email address since 1994 (Yeah, I'm an old-timer)
I don't think anyone is singling you out. Everyone's been getting it, whether they psot here or not. I'm surprised you haven't gotten it before now. Yes, they are disgustingly explicit.
I block the sender, but they still keep coming. I have five email accounts at the same provider. Most of my boxes receive the same porn from the same sources. Once a spammer of any kind finds the "[email protected]" for your provider, they have programs that spam to many possbile names that could go in front of the "@" sign.
I have one mailbox I have never SENT mail from and have never given the address out. The address is "[email protected]" (X's substituted for the real ISP). So their program spammmed every thinkable name at my ISP.
But my email with an unusual name gets less.
Spammers harvest email addresses as well, but I think these days they get more hits using the automated software. Of course, clicking on their "Remove" link just lets them know your email address is a good one, and they can sell your address to others and possibly email you yet again from one of their other addresses or a fictitious address. Much spam these days is automated to show someone else as the sender, usually a victim like yourself.
So, get a good spam managing program or block each, one at a time. Blocking will not decrease the frequency of this type of email, it just slows down the growth of the number you will receive. But they will likely increase over time.
I receive 200 emails per day. 50% or better are spam, and at least a fourth of those spam contain pictures of explicit sex acts or nude bodies.
I have set each mailbox in Outlook Express to not show any emails as "read" until they have been on the screen at least 4 seconds. That is so I have time to block & delete the ones that are "return receipt requested" before they bounce back to the sender showing they have sent it to a good email address. But the manual blocking method has become way too time-consuming now. The volume of spam just keeps increasing.
The only reason I do not use Mailwasher is that I heard that one must disbable your local virus software to use it. Won't catch me doing that!
I'm changing ISP's soon, and will be checking to see what Kim Komando recommends to handle spam. Her website is at:
She is a very brainy and practical computer know-it-all with a really good radio talk show and newsletter on the latest email scams, viruses, computer goodies and so on.
posted on April 6, 2003 06:36:03 PM new
Tom - have you discussed this with Ralphie? Are you sure he is not responsible?
Do a google search under your state and spmalaws, more and more states are passing laws allowing users to sue spammers. I there is not one in your state, contacta representative. the more and more states begin to pass similar laws (each with it's own twist) it will becaome more and more difficult for spammer companies to abide by 50 ifferent sets of indival regulations. While national spam regulations may seem to be the most efficient way of protection, it will actually be lack of efficiency and organization of individual state regulations that many predict will spell the end of the industry.
posted on April 7, 2003 12:04:05 PM new
If you have AOL there is now a spam blocker to use. Most email spam blockers state they they do not work with AOL, including Mailwasher and McAfee's SpamKiller. The only one I have found that is marketed specifically for AOL 7.0 and 8.0 users is Spam Inspector. You can choose 5 levels for how tight to set the criteria, set personal rules for 4-5 or more different perameters of the arriving email (not just address and subject), and choose whether or not you want to see the email just deleted and OK it first or just trust the program and have it automatically disappear. You can either have just automatic deletion or choose to bounce the message back to the sender. Best yet, it is only $19.99 if you get one of their specials and there is a 2 week free trial. It is also offered in versions for other email programs beside AOL. "Spam Inspector" typed into your search engine will pull up their website if you are interested. Unfortunately, a different program (their Pop-Up inspector) works so well it freezes out the Vendio software usage because of the pop ups built in for tutorials etc.
