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[Simon]

I've just finished the morning routine of reading through my emails and I have to say that today was a particularly bad day for spam. Out of the 61 emails I received 7 were legitimate and 54 were spam. 50 of the spam emails were variants on the subject "beef up the size of your johnson! scientifically safe" and were apparently sent from plausible people like Leah Camacho and Jayson French.

Even with 50 individuals commenting on the size (or lack of size) of my willy I'm still not taking it personally. They couldn't all have been spying on me in the locker room…could they?

I've been receiving these emails for a week or so now and I've tried to trace back to the original sender without any luck. Apparently these people steal identities and somehow forge the 'from' line of the email. When you think that if you send out 10,000,000 emails even a 0.00001 return is still 100 sales. It obviously pays and they don't really care how many people they aggravate in the process. What bugs me is that they send the email to you again and again and again - like I'm gonna crack!

So what do I do?

 Hope they stop (yeah right)
 Change my email address (inconvenience, lost business)
 Buy a twelve-bore shotgun (and shoot at my computer)
 Buy some of their pills and ask to be taken off their mailing list
 Do some further investigations on how to reduce the levels of spam I receive

Here are some useful resources on fighting spam:

http://www.spamprimer.com/
http://combat.uxn.com/tracing.html
http://users.rcn.com/abuse/
http://www.chickenboner.com/antispam/

Cheers,
Simon

[Puzzle]

Simon,

I have a spam 'filter' on my security software, but all it does is put the word spam at the start of the title !!

Mind you it does it to some legitimate communications

[Simon]

How's everyone doing for spam these days?

[Franco]

Spamhilator

[SAM]

I got invited to have a google email address, ever since I've been using this one for my personal email, I have not received a single spam message. If anyone wants one let me know, I have 50 invites left!!

Nadine.

[Simon]

I got invited to have a google email address, ever since I've been using this one for my personal email, I have not received a single spam message. If anyone wants one let me know, I have 50 invites left!!

Nadine.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I might try one Nadine - what do I have to do?

Simon

[Simon]

Spamhilator

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Have you got it installed Franco?

Simon

[Franco]

Have you got it installed Franco?

I used to and it worked fine. Currently unistalled. No spam, crossing fingers

[SAM]

Simon,
If you send me your email address, I'll send you an invite, then just follow the instructions on the email they will send you.

[Simon]

Simon,
If you send me your email address, I'll send you an invite, then just follow the instructions on the email they will send you.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

It's simon.timperley-------@------saferpak.com, obviously remove the "-"

Thanks Nadine.

[SAM]

I've just send the invite, let me know if you don't get it.

Nadine

[SAM]

Simon,

Did you get it?

Nadine.

[Simon]

Yes I signed up.

I'm saferpak----at----gmail.com

Edited by Simon Timperley, 23 August 2005 - 07:18 PM.