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How to deal with spam

by Shermaine
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Apparently, I'm under some kind of attack from spammers the past two days.

Normally, this wouldn't bother me except that this time, the spam mails are landing in my personal email account -- an email address that I do not give out freely -- and this is bothering me a whole lot.

What can I do? Are there any extra precautions that I can take online? I have no idea how my personal email address landed up in some bulk email package being distributed around the web.

My only conclusion is that someone's autoresponder list has been hacked and emails have been compromised as a result.
#deal #spam
  • Profile picture of the author emigre
    Originally Posted by Shermaine View Post

    Apparently, I'm under some kind of attack from spammers the past two days.

    There are no unsubscribe links in the spam emails and I have personally replied to each and every spam mail asking to be removed. But I doubt the spammers are going to bother checking their emails.
    I'm afraid that by answering each and every spam mail, you have just confirmed to these spammers that they have a working email and should put your email on their A-list for spamming.
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    • Profile picture of the author mporgsoft
      See if your web host has a spam filter option.

      You can also blacklist emails based on their subject and have them automatically deleted. See what words in the subject is most common and add them to a rule.

      Unfortunately there is nothing you can do and everyone experiences spam. Consider yourself lucky you have escaped this long.
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      • Profile picture of the author Thinker1
        Mark the spam e-mails as spam and next time they send sapms they go straight to the spam inbox. Don't give too much energy to this. Just send them to spam then you will be good. I do this even for some e-mail that don't have opt out option.
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    • Profile picture of the author Shermaine
      Originally Posted by emigre View Post

      I'm afraid that by answering each and every spam mail, you have just confirmed to these spammers that they have a working email and should put your email on their A-list for spamming.
      What have I gotten myself into.

      Anyway, I included their whois details in my replies and told them that I would be reporting them to their hosting company if I receive another piece of spam from them again... It's ridiculous that they don't even bother hiding their domain details when they intend to spam (not that it would help much, though).
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      • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
        Originally Posted by Shermaine View Post

        It's ridiculous that they don't even bother hiding their domain details when they intend to spam
        Most spammers are piggybacking on an innocent person's system, so if that system gets shut down, they don't care.
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        • Profile picture of the author Karen Blundell
          Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

          Most spammers are piggybacking on an innocent person's system, so if that system gets shut down, they don't care.
          yeah, email spoofers...don't you just love them
          thank goodness for domain SPF records!
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  • Profile picture of the author ArticlePrince
    Not much else you can do but mark it as spam... emigre is correct though it unfortunately probably ranked you higher
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  • Profile picture of the author rosetrees
    Originally Posted by Shermaine View Post

    What can I do?
    Change your email address. That's what I do. Regularly.

    Originally Posted by Shermaine View Post

    Are there any extra precautions that I can take online?
    Yes - NEVER use a personal email address for anything online, ever.

    Even that isn't 100% guaranteed to protect you. I have one personal email address that I only use for friends/family. One "friend" sent out a round robin email with my private email address clearly visible to all. I have recently started receiving spam on that address. Lesson learnt - she wasn't a close friend, just an acquaintance.
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  • Profile picture of the author senderbot
    Hi,

    Two things you can do.
    1. Change your email address or
    2. Use a challenge-response filter such as Spam Arrest

    Cheers

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    • Profile picture of the author jennypitts
      Originally Posted by emigre View Post

      I'm afraid that by answering each and every spam mail, you have just confirmed to these spammers that they have a working email and should put your email on their A-list for spamming.
      I AGREE...Why would you ever reply to them. If they do not have an unsubscribe button, you hit the SPAM button. Oh, you can also send them to a blacklist, this way anything that comes from that particular email will go straight to junk mail...

      Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

      Most spammers are piggybacking on an innocent person's system, so if that system gets shut down, they don't care.
      SO TRUE!!!!
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  • Profile picture of the author Tonio Smith
    Tell me about it at NBB we have been dealing with twitter spammersthe last 4 days are so. It is time to stop the spam spammers

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