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Rich Grise
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|  Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 4:02 pm Post subject: OT: New spam technique? |
| Has anyone noticed, lately, a lot of messages in your email from
"mailer-daemon" or "system administrator" or what-not, telling
you there's some delivery failure, and click here for more information?
I use yahoo mail, and they've got checkboxes and a "spam" button,
which is supposed to update their spam filter, but it doesn't seem to
change the number of these things I'm getting every day.
Is this happening to anyone else, or should I get all paranoid about
it, and assume it's personal? ;-)
Thanks!
Rich |
| | Back to top | |  | Grant
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| | Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 4:14 pm Post subject: Re: OT: New spam technique? |
| On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:02:34 GMT, Rich Grise <rich@example.net> wrote:
| Quote: | Has anyone noticed, lately, a lot of messages in your email from
"mailer-daemon" or "system administrator" or what-not, telling
you there's some delivery failure, and click here for more information?
I use yahoo mail, and they've got checkboxes and a "spam" button,
which is supposed to update their spam filter, but it doesn't seem to
change the number of these things I'm getting every day.
Is this happening to anyone else, or should I get all paranoid about
it, and assume it's personal? 
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Yep it's personal, we all got together while you were last sleeping... :^)
Was getting that type of spam some months back through gmail, it mostly
stopped now. These things go in cycles, no? Takes some time for the
filter training to react?
Grant.
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http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/ |
| | Back to top | | | GregS
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| | Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 4:18 pm Post subject: Re: OT: New spam technique? |
| In article <pan.2006.11.17.20.02.57.452647@example.net>, Rich Grise <rich@example.net> wrote:
| Quote: | Has anyone noticed, lately, a lot of messages in your email from
"mailer-daemon" or "system administrator" or what-not, telling
you there's some delivery failure, and click here for more information?
I use yahoo mail, and they've got checkboxes and a "spam" button,
which is supposed to update their spam filter, but it doesn't seem to
change the number of these things I'm getting every day.
Is this happening to anyone else, or should I get all paranoid about
it, and assume it's personal?
|
Good spam blocking software will filter these out. The addresses frequently
change, or there is some small change that your blocking it fails
to register. Fortunately, this email I am using has full force blocking.
greg |
| | Back to top | | | Joerg
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| | Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 4:21 pm Post subject: Re: OT: New spam technique? |
| Hello Rich,
| Quote: | Has anyone noticed, lately, a lot of messages in your email from
"mailer-daemon" or "system administrator" or what-not, telling
you there's some delivery failure, and click here for more information?
|
Yep, same here. That number hasn't increased much but the total number
of spams has at least doubled over the last couple of months. They have
become pretty inventive with their catch phrases. Are they thinking that
anyone actually reads their spam?
| Quote: | I use yahoo mail, and they've got checkboxes and a "spam" button,
which is supposed to update their spam filter, but it doesn't seem to
change the number of these things I'm getting every day.
|
Spam filters don't work well IMHO. After it almost shot down several
important biz emails I turned all that off. So 3-4 times a day I go in
and hosed off all the spam, then pull the flush handle. Unlike snail
junk mail spam can't be used to start the wood stove...
| Quote: | Is this happening to anyone else, or should I get all paranoid about
it, and assume it's personal? ;-)
|
Nah.
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Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com |
| | Back to top | | | petrus bitbyter
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| | Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 4:23 pm Post subject: Re: New spam technique? |
| "Rich Grise" <rich@example.net> schreef in bericht
news:pan.2006.11.17.20.02.57.452647@example.net...
| Quote: | Has anyone noticed, lately, a lot of messages in your email from
"mailer-daemon" or "system administrator" or what-not, telling
you there's some delivery failure, and click here for more information?
I use yahoo mail, and they've got checkboxes and a "spam" button,
which is supposed to update their spam filter, but it doesn't seem to
change the number of these things I'm getting every day.
Is this happening to anyone else, or should I get all paranoid about
it, and assume it's personal? ;-)
Thanks!
Rich
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I've seen this before and actually see it these days again although not on
my own computer.
Worst case, some spammer took over your computer and is using your mail
account to distribute his lousy stuff.
More likely some spammer is using the name of your account to hide the real
origin of the spam.
In both cases a lot of mail servers react on receiving mail for the (no
more) existing adresses by sending a dead letter message.
petrus bitbyter |
| | Back to top | | | Guest
| | Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 4:34 pm Post subject: Re: New spam technique? |
| It happened to me a few days ago. I got over 2000 bounced spam emails
in
a few hours.
They used a botnet as a large number of different ip addresses were
used
for sending the spam. The reply-to addresses were random names @
my domain. The ones I received were just those that got filtered and
bounced.
Many more must have got through.
It would be much better if spam filters silently dumped the spam rather
than
bouncing it, as the bounces never go back to the true originator.
John |
| | Back to top | | | Ian Stirling
Guest
| | Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 5:18 pm Post subject: Re: New spam technique? |
| In sci.electronics.design jrwalliker@gmail.com wrote:
| Quote: | It happened to me a few days ago. I got over 2000 bounced spam emails
in
a few hours.
They used a botnet as a large number of different ip addresses were
used
for sending the spam. The reply-to addresses were random names @
my domain. The ones I received were just those that got filtered and
bounced.
Many more must have got through.
It would be much better if spam filters silently dumped the spam rather
than
bouncing it, as the bounces never go back to the true originator.
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I got a million in a couple of days once.
Unfortunately, 99% of them are not bounces from spam filters, but simply
bounces due to wrong address.
A mortgage spam. |
| | Back to top | | | Vince
Guest
| | Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 5:34 pm Post subject: Re: OT: New spam technique? |
| "Joerg" wrote
| Quote: | Spam filters don't work well IMHO. After it almost shot down several
important biz emails I turned all that off. So 3-4 times a day I go in and
hosed off all the spam, then pull the flush handle. Unlike snail junk mail
spam can't be used to start the wood stove...
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Sure it can - you just have to print it out first. |
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