spam

I keep reasonably tight control of my Internet activities and really only get a little volume of spam (who knows what is filtered out upstream?). I always read my email first as text and go to the HTML version when I think I know the sender. For the curious ones I'll read the message source...

I'm curious to know if anyone has ever had contact with Gmail staff regarding spam reports. I don't get too much spam anymore but I try to trace and report it regularly, although not to any Nigerian ISP who will only sell your email to a spammer client. However most "Nigerian" spammers use...

I just got my second robocall that was using a vocal recognition program and computer generated interaction. Anyone else starting to get these?

My company has a pretty good spam filter, but there has been a sudden influx of messages making it through, and just blocking the sending domain does not work. They are (probably) all legit businesses despite their spamming practice. The distinguishing feature is that they have unique return...

Hello all! I keep getting this same piece of Spam from several different e-mail addresses in the last few weeks? BABE... i guess your not getting any of my email huh? ive been tryign to email u so many times but this dam laptop is such a piece of garbage and keeps freezing.. anyways how u...

Hello, Of late I've been receiving email messages that have nothing in the message body but some meaningless characters (e.g. one today contained only the string 3y). The subject line is often meaningless scramble too, or else is syntactically correct but still meaningless. The senders'...

I'm getting spam on my cell phone from a lending company with multiple telephone numbers. (Get $1500 in 1 hour!!!!!). I thought this was illegal? What is the best way for me to handle this? Should I put my cell phone number on a do not call list? But I thought cell phone numbers were off...

I found out today that my office phone number is blacklisted as spam! So far, only me.com (from Apple's MobileMe service) seems to be blocking emails. The weird thing is that the emails do not show up in junk/spam folders; they seemed to get blocked at some deeper level. I talked with...

I found this in my junk mail folder the other day. I'm not even sure how these clowns got my email address.... probably one of those random alphabet spam generators. Btw, clicking on the link (not recommended in any case) will not tell you how much they want you to pay for this crappola for...

I received a message in my Hotmail inbox yesterday, allegedly from one of my contacts, which was actually a spam message. This contact also has a Hotmail account. I didn't open the message, but from the nonsensical title, as well as from a preview on my phone I could see it was spam, so I...

The amount of email spam recently is incomprehensible. I've been getting well over 700 per day (!). Types of spam with subjects like this for instance: ThisPokrnSourceIsDedicatedToPa55ionateAmatteurBabesFromCollegeAndFast-FoodStoresWhoLikeToFucsk I realize that a couple of spambots have been...

I can finally beat the one I had from Gordo Brown. :D UNITED STATE OF AMERICA OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN PAYMENT RESOLUTION PANEL ON PAYMENT WASHINGTON DC Dear : Beneficiary...... I wish to use this medium to inform you that your CONTRACT/INHERITANCE Payment...

This morning I've been inundated at work with e-mails from a new troofer mailing list that I don't recall signing up for. Most of the messages are something to the effect of, "Please take me off this mailing list." Anyone else have this problem? It's advertising a new website...

So, I live in NC which is now apparently up for grabs in the presidential election. This hasn't happened in my lifetime that I remember and now I get to experience the joy of all the extra "attention" we get from the campaigns. Every day brings a new batch of glossy attack ads in my mailbox...

This transaction is so important that I've been personally emailed by Robert Mueller, Director of the FBI! I thought Mueller had more important concerns on his plate, but it shows what I know about federal law enforcement. I wonder if I could reach him directly by calling this number...

Yes, it's true: spam reaches the venerable age of 30 this weekend. Three decades ago it was brought kicking and screaming into the world, courtesy of a marketer from DEC. Perhaps the sad thing about this is that spam is in fact older than many people who are reading this message. I find that...

Got a spam email this morning, What was so different about it? The subject line was "Evacuation process has been started due to radiation leaks at Sizewell B Suffolk Nucklear Power Station". The message was: "BBC, Suffolk - Major Problems have been occured at Sizewell B Nucklear Power Station...

A message in my inbox for webmaster at whiterosesociety.org, and which was copied to a number of liberal web sites and random folks like a reporter at the Houston Chronicle says; My reply is as follows; Now my question; Why the **** does anybody think that spamming is going to help ANYTHING...

What's the best spam filter for Mac OS X? I'd prefer something that deletes spam from your mailbox before it can be downloaded rather than simply sifting it into your Junk Mail folder. Mailfilter ticks all the right boxes, but it appears to have vanished from all its download sites. Anyone have...

I administer the mail server at work, so I get to peruse the spam pit occasionally, make sure there are no babies in the bathwater. Here's a gem, similar to the "John of God" thread, almost as pathetic. It seems the amount of this crud going around in email is rising. N-C is selling Gregg...

I have set up an Email redirect from my wife's wesite, to my general Email address, looking for Emails addressed to enquiries@domain.com. I generally get about 100 a day spam Emails addressed to randomletters@domain.com, which I identify as spam and automatically delete subsequent messages. I...

I don't know what I was thinking. I went looking for 'best dentists' and found this DrOogle site with a lot of recommendations posted. I found a dentist I wanted to try but made the mistake of thinking the "get your appointment by email" was just that. After I stupidly put in my name, phone...

OK, here we have one of the top-10 international eMail spammers: Robert Alan Soloway's arrest came a week after a federal grand jury returned a 35-count indictment charging him with mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering...

I just received a warning from the Seattle Skeptics that a Death Threat Spam has been sent to people listed in the back of the Skeptical Inquirer as contacts for local skeptic groups. It says that the sender has a contract to kill you, but you can buy him off for $20,000. I'ma skeered!

Congratulate me. I've just won the "Microsoft Global E-mail Lottery." That Bill Gates sure is a nice guy. :rolleyes:

Hey all, Our message board on our site is being attacked, and I have no idea how to stop it, I am somewhat computer savvy and can't figure it out. Please go to www.overman.info and then click on the 'Overmanics' tag to check out what is going on...Please post suggestions here, or if you want...

Everyday I get 2-6 emails that consist of a couple of paragraphs from a novel and a blurry image touting some penny stock that "is on the verge of skyrocketing." My filter catches around 95% of them, but I opened one today that had a friend's name in the return address. I am having a hard time...

The following text appears in a spam email I read today (for prescription drugs). This is the entire excerpt. Any idea where it comes from? Anyone else notice thing like this showing up in spam lately? Why are they doing this? (It's not my email account, so no lectures on security, please.)

Another forum I'm a mod in has been getting a bunch of spam lately that looks like some kind of code. I have no idea what it does or what the purpose is, does anyone here know? Here's an example: I've deleted several lines of it in case it's something malicious, but you get the idea.

Allright, so a few months ago I created a PHP script thingy to allow for submitting a message to my email address through a website. I tested it back then, and it worked fine. The script was laying about for a while, and today I finaly decided to implemend it, but alas, it doesn't work. Seems...