for the last two days, my spam emails have doubled, from around 1000-1200 per day to over 2000. is anyone else seeing sudden massive increases in their spam or am i the lucky one?
for the last two days, my spam emails have doubled, from around 1000-1200 per day to over 2000. is anyone else seeing sudden massive increases in their spam or am i the lucky one?
We actually implement GFI on our Exchange Server. It has been great. Most of the new ones are ones 'selling' Microsoft Office 2007 or one with a telephone number in the subject.
GFI has been prety good about blocking and rejecting them at least. If you don't have it - you might turn on (or up) your SPF record settings
Patti.
YES!!!! im getting a ton of spam recently.
I think i know why to.
A lot of it seems to be retail related (and the boring old investments and viagra shit)
It has to be something to do with the holidays ?
Yep and its all those spams with subjects like..
'Hey Bob'
'Roberto Ingese'
'RE: Harold'
Its annoying as hell because its meaning im having to check my spam filter incase i miss an email from someone that has put their name in the subjct
Regards,
Lee
Spam has been INSANE lately. It went up in the past couple weeks and my host can't really filter it anymore than it already is.
Mark
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I've been getting spam from sites I've purchased gifts from for Christmas. What pisses me off is that I didn't opt in to their list during the purchase, but I get added anyway. They shouldn't even bother having a check box to stay off their mailing list if they are just going to ignore it.
Mine suddenly went way down. You must be getting mine now.Originally Posted by basschick
I dont get much as my email addy isnt really anywhere. This week ive been getting 10 a day from some stupid loan company offering me a $300k loan. Im trying to think who i gave my email address to.
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I have never recieved a spam in my mailbox since starting the service :bananacock:
Yes ... all using some variation on including a person's name in the subject line. Like they've installed the dictionary to what to name your child and have it spewing out spam mails with every name imaginable.
We've used AppRiver spam filtering (www.appriver.com) for about a year now. It is without question the best product I've ever used (Haven't used Spamarrest.) It's much better than 99% accurate; we get maybe 3 or 4 spams on a particularly bad day when we used to get in the mid-hundreds, and I don't think I've ever had a "false positive" from them. (though my built-in Eudora junk filter will sometimes mismark a legitimate mail as junk.)
What I like most about it is it does NOT require the sender to do anything whatsoever in order for their mail to go through. No "Please go to this page and enter this captcha code" bullshit. They use very sophisticated filters, monitored by humans 24/7, and constantly adjust the filters throughout the day, and you can whitelist an address or a domain if you have a problem, but I've never had to.
You can go to the login page and see globally what % of mail they are getting that day is spam (it averages about 85%, I've seen as high as 97% some days.) And it also shows what % of each kind of spam - porn, medication, penis enlargement, mortgage, stock deals, etc. It's really interesting just to look.
It costs about $25/month if you have one domain with them, but I have a reseller account so we pay about half of that, and I've aliased a bunch of domains so most of my personal mail arrives in one box (hence one account fee). If anyone is interested, I can add people onto my reseller account at about $15/month, which is about a buck more than our cost, (depending on number of mailboxes) and they offer a 30 day free trial. There might be a $15 or $20 setup fee after the trial, I haven't looked recently.
I called one of those mortaging companies once since I don't own the home.
They said they bought my email from www.juicyleads.com. The email adress that bought from Juicy Leads was something like 'spamming@mydomain.com'. I told the mortage company (who paid $10 for my name) got screwed. I then called Juicy leads and they never would admit they spidered my website for potential email addresses.
I finally got angrier, and wrote them up on rippedoffreoprt.com (Juicy Leads are Dry)
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about 2 weeks ago i had to change the setup of my chilihost accounts so that I only check emails sent directly to the sales address. I download all other emails once a day and comb through them. I am upto over 1200 spam messages per day on this one domain alone.
I have also heard similar complaints from quite a few of my clients, spam is up and people are getting pissed off about it too. I think the next step will have to be whitelisting all email addresses (just like spamarrest).
I've started converting all my e-mail address on my sites to graphics with no e-mail link. I used to do creative things like using ascii codes, but I think the spammers caught onto that one. So now if they want my e-mail address they'll have to look at it and type it in. It'll probably cut it down a lot.
I've also been thinking of just changing all my domain address and starting fresh with this image of my e-mail address idea. And then I'll send everything to a black hole.
It never ends.
Michael
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