Those damned junk mailers

andy

It looks like those damned junk mailers have managed to get their shit into my @hotmail and @msn accounts again!
To be fair, e-mails like this do go straight into my quot;junk mailquot; folder... but for the last couple of months it never managed to get this far...

...Does anybody know what's changed?Cheers

MS haven't realised yet that normal people don't put special characters in their subject fields?

hehe... it doesn't take a genius i guess.

has anybody EVER been sucked in by that crap?  what motivates someone to become a spammer?  i really just don't understand it.

it'll probably ease off after xmas though.  it's shopping season.

quot;has anybody EVER been sucked in by that crap? what motivates someone to become a spammer?quot;

Someone (maybe a computer magazine) should test those offers.

Originally posted by reepa
...Someone (maybe a computer magazine) should test those offers.
True... but such spammers would not need to use quot;special charactersquot;!

Just what I always wanted; black market Cialis for Christmas this year!

While I'm there, I could use a breast enlargement, a penile implant,  and a 10% fee for transferring US$450,000,000 into my bank account for a Liberian refugee.  

What a pleasant suprise under the tree those would be.   

quot;.... Now, how much would you pay?  But wait, there's more! ....quot;

Originally posted by jggimi
Just what I always wanted; black market Cialis for Christmas this year!

quot;.... Now, how much would you pay?  But wait, there's more! ....quot;
And no sooner is it deleted...... It reapears....

Bummer

intl/   

info:

2004/11...pe_spam_blitz/

article.pl?sid=0...29238amp;from=rss

i must say im only getting around 25 a day now which is good lol(seems like a few servers might of been hit?), thank god for thunderbird's built in spam control though.
Regards
cyph

See it's because of this kinda crap that I stopped using any of the big webmail services like Hotmail. Now my e-mail is served by some smelly students (the UL Computer Society)! And when I do get spam, I can set Spamassassin manually on the server through PuTTY and SCP and stuff. It costs 4 Euro a year, but that does also include 100MB space, from serving, PHP, MySQL and everything else you could ever want from a server!

hmm.  is it just me, or is  intl/ down?

maybe the spammers have struck back?  this should get interesting.

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if anyone would like to host this screensaver or whatever it is, i'd love to install it.I got some more today... all of which are obviously spam: -

Cheers

I don't know how you people, but 90% of the junk mail I recieve has *nothing* to do with advartisment companies. It's just the horribly misconfigured servers someplace in the net, which just can't resist from sending an email to a random adress when they see some virus activity.

Whoever is responsible for such a server should be shot.
Radek

Originally posted by sysKin It's just the horribly misconfigured servers someplace in the net, which just can't resist from sending an email to a random adress when they see some virus activity.

mmmhh, I have the feeling this is not exactly what happened with the mail you're showing us... too bad the screenshot only shows a couple of lines and not the full text so I can't fully understand what's going on. But it has something to do with measures taken to avoid the propagation of viruses... I don't see anything related to quot;virus activity detectedquot;.

Originally posted by virus
mmmhh, I have the feeling this is not exactly what happened with the mail you're showing us... too bad the screenshot only shows a couple of lines and not the full text so I can't fully understand what's going on. But it has something to do with measures taken to avoid the propagation of viruses... I don't see anything related to quot;virus activity detectedquot;.

Yes, I'm not saying that this email is a respose to a virus - I'm saying that this was sent, to me, unrequested, unasked for, by italian Vodafone. Dunno what they want, it might be quot;you have a virusquot; or quot;thank you for contacting customer supportquot; but my point remains - all automatic quot;repliesquot; are **the** source of spam I recieve. Look at the other mails in there - the quot;Re: your mail passwordquot; is saying that user quot;nobodyquot; doesn't exist, and the others are self-explainatory.

These are all junks I recieved recently, not a single viagra sell...

Originally posted by sysKin
all automatic quot;repliesquot; are **the** source of spam I recieve.

yep, they're widely used across the net for dozens of different purposes. The problem is when someone put your address in the Reply-To field, after stealing it somewhere