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Surlent サーレント Level: 49 Posts: 164/1077 EXP: 863920 For next: 19963 Since: 03-15-04 From: Tower of Lezard Valeth Since last post: 16 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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I'm using Thunderbird too. An email containing keywords like sex, penis and, other and such immediately get moved into the junk folder; But now the spammers even know that, so people send German mails with a header like "Kostenlose S'EX-Galerien !"; hoping the spam filter won't mark them as spam On the other hand, if only one of 10.000 people who got a spam mail, click on the link inside the mail and go to the page, it was worth to dispatch all other mails for the sender. You can send dozens of mails almost for nearly nothing; they have very little costs usually. |
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tinzeee Permaban Repeated warnings and bannings about stupidity Level: 38 Posts: 84/618 EXP: 369695 For next: 752 Since: 04-02-04 From: Australia - Sydney Since last post: 553 days Last activity: 339 days |
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I have had to get a new email address, my old one was full of spam, so now with my new account, i usually get around 10-15 spam a day, they all just go to my junkmail filter and they mostly consist of porn, star signs or stupid viruses. | |||
Surverus Paratroopa Level: 21 Posts: 114/149 EXP: 44438 For next: 5505 Since: 03-15-04 From: Chatham, Kent, England, UK, Europe, Earth. Since last post: 116 days Last activity: 105 days |
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I just use Hotmail and i have it block anything sent that isnt on my contact list and it all goes into junk mail and gets deleted within days. | |||
Anya The Exile Ultima Mezcla de Yin Yan Level: 98 Posts: 772/5337 EXP: 9530313 For next: 124040 Since: 03-15-04 From: South Florida Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 2 days |
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You know, I really don't get that much spam in my mail box. Maybe three every other day. And my e-mail service filters the junk/spam mail anyway, so it isn't really a concern for me. | |||
Kefka Indefinitely Unbanned Level: 81 Posts: 781/3392 EXP: 4826208 For next: 166641 Since: 03-15-04 From: Pomona, CALIFORNIA BABY! Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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I used to get a bunch, but not anymore. I hated those ones that would say "Hey! Remember me from the club? We were WILD last night" as the subject title I have never been to a club. I'm only 16. |
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Kwan Doesn't have a valid sized userpic. ||bass will be pissed :(((((((( Level: 50 Posts: 253/1137 EXP: 937111 For next: 10206 Since: 03-15-04 From: Durkadurkastan! Since last post: 22 days Last activity: 2 days |
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0. Why? Check the email: kwan@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com not even normal mails |
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Surlent サーレント Level: 49 Posts: 165/1077 EXP: 863920 For next: 19963 Since: 03-15-04 From: Tower of Lezard Valeth Since last post: 16 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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Originally posted by Anya Well, if you requested an email of a company for example, be sure to check the spam folder too. It already happened twic that regular emails, after I ordered something from the net, got moved into the spam folder on gmx.de; probably the filter recognized a word on the blacklist and treated is as spam Fortunately, the email probider now automatically dispatches an info mail for all spam mail entries you got per day, if you use an external email application, such as Pegasus Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird etc |
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Ran-chan Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing... Level: 143 Posts: 356/12781 EXP: 35293588 For next: 538220 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima District, Tokyo - Japan Since last post: 12 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
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Originally posted by ChibiTaryn Uh, i recognize that kind of spam... I used to get them when i got my hotmail addy but now they have a better filter so i don (edited by Millennium Neko on 04-08-04 01:18 PM) |
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Atropos Micro-Goomba Level: 8 Posts: 15/16 EXP: 1553 For next: 634 Since: 03-23-04 Since last post: 572 days Last activity: 339 days |
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I get two to three spam mail messages per day... and that's in my spam account. In my personal account I get maybe one spam a week if that. | |||
KATW King Yoshi "If you stare at something long enough, it can be funny." Level: 86 Posts: 314/3959 EXP: 6087979 For next: 54128 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 7 hours Last activity: 5 hours |
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I must be special... in a sick demented sort of way. My spam is 50% laced with viruses that my antivirus program catches and deletes. 14-17 spam a day, I dont WANNA check my mail, but If I dont, Ill have about 51349857109847501 emails the next time I check. |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 166/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Oh yeah, I get a lot of viruses too, but like I said, the majority of those can be safely ignored. Just make sure that your mail client or whatever deletes ALL mail with a .exe, .pif, .scr, .bat attachment, and no worries. I don't know anybody who would LEGITIMATELY send me one of those files. I left .zip, like I said, so I still get that virus-spam, but somebody might legitimately send me a .zip, and I don't want to risk a false positive with that one EDIT: Oh goodie, it looks like my spammer from Comcast.net is on right at the moment, sending out their daily spam. *waves* Hello! *reports to spamcop as a mole* (edited by ChibiTaryn on 04-08-04 11:40 PM) |
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Colleen Administrator Level: 136 Posts: 778/11302 EXP: 29369328 For next: 727587 Since: 03-15-04 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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I'm getting a lot of BLANK e-mails at the moment. I assume they're virii but luckily Thunderbird doesn't run anything from them. (And besides, I just did a check. Clean. ) |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 325/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Stopping spam's rather easy. -Don't give out your email in plain text format or use a common filter. Spambots will pick it up. I imagine they're smart enough now to recognize something like user@nospam.domain.com or user[at]domain[dot]com, try something totally off the wall like user@monkeybrainsdomain.com (with instructions on what to remove of course) or typing ti backward. Or you could just make an image out of it. -NEVER, EVER, EVER click an unsubscribe link in a spam message. You'll be removed from their list - and added to 20 more. -Don't use IE. Spyware = teh bad. -Avoid 'send this page to a friend' links, random mailing lists, and other such things that ask for your email. -When checking your mail, don't open things that are obviously designed to bypass spam filters or replies to a message you didn't send. (I never quite got why viruses always pretend to be replies, any idiot can tell they never sent a message to these 20 people regarding 'your movies'. ) There's a lot less danger if you use a non-M$ browser/client but there's still no point in opening them. -Don't download exe, scr, pif, bat, com, vbs or js attatchments. If someone needs to send you one of these, they can quite easily put it into a zip. (And there's no reason I can think of to send someone a .pif file.) Yahoo also does a great job of filtering. For every one that shows up in my inbox, about 20 are in junk. (Of course I run a quick check in Junk to make sure it's all spam. ) |
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Apple Kodondo Level: 38 Posts: 51/594 EXP: 350163 For next: 20284 Since: 03-27-04 From: Washington. Since last post: 264 days Last activity: 152 days |
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None. I have 4 email addresses. No spam to any of them. I haven't gotten spam since I started on the net except when my friend signned me up to animal porn sites but I don't get those anymore. |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 168/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Hyperhacker -- but I'm very good with my spam avoidant practices, and I STILL get spam. If you have your own domain, you're at risk too. When I had all the business mails, "abuse@" "sales@" "info@" etc, all got spambombed to hell..... All the domains I have had have been VERY quiet with spam for a while, and then BANG. Although I did read on Slashdot that they are actually going through domain listings and things now looking for targets. DNS stuff and whatnot. And you can't NOT put a mail address on those, you are REQUIRED to. |
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Angel Hardhat Beetle Level: 37 Posts: 112/573 EXP: 335160 For next: 3093 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 21 days Last activity: 11 hours |
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The best ones are the viagra ones that come out of nowhere. | |||
Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 170/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Oh my god, this one is beautiful.
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Raku Mel Red Koopa Level: 19 Posts: 84/126 EXP: 34477 For next: 1300 Since: 03-18-04 From: Bluesville Since last post: 471 days Last activity: 227 days |
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.....20 times a day? Oh man, I need to start digging through my spam folder. I could use another good laugh. |
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drjayphd Beamos What's that spell? pimp! Level: 56 Posts: 134/1477 EXP: 1387410 For next: 10766 Since: 03-15-04 From: CT Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Originally posted by ChibiTaryn Oof... I couldn't even use filters with that account when I was using web access... then again, I had no say in that, and at least they have solid attachment scanning (deletes damn near everything that's a virus). |
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Lord Sebbith Goomba Level: 8 Posts: 6/20 EXP: 2167 For next: 20 Since: 03-25-04 From: LEEDS!!! Since last post: 495 days Last activity: 339 days |
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I used to get stuff which like most was the usual MAKE IT 3 FEET LONGER!! things but my ISP which I also use as my main e-mail recently intro'd a bulk folder which so far seems to have successfully eradicated the problem. Of course I don't expect it to last and soon I'll get stuff again. Whats best is I no longer get these panicky phonecalls from my dad. He used to get those e-mails trying to sell him anti-virus stuff with subjects along the lines of "Your Anti-Virus is out of date" or "You (possibly) have a Virus!!" yet he never learnt to recognise them as spam and would constantly harass me to "deal with it" On a semi related issue....Click for justice |
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