Can We Cut Spam Off At The Source? »
Posted By Bkumm 1 year, 2 months ago in Science & TechnologyA study of more than a million spam emails has revealed a weak link in the junk email business. It shows that the web links contained in many spam messages point to just a handful of servers. So, in theory, disabling or blocking these servers could help make spamming a less profitable business.
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PilotSmall1 year, 2 months ago
...or if I want to be scammed from Nigeria, or touted stocks that are "hot" right now today...i'll call my broker! The danger now is that we have so many anti-spam filters and firewalls that all not listed in our e-mail address file are automatically deleted every Am upon opening. What happens if someone I might want to hear from but who is not in my address file wants to send to me, ...it goes out with all the garbage so I become impossible to contact unless I know you well enough to have added your address to my file. Spam should be considred a form of fraud...because it is!
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Bkumm1 year, 2 months ago
I agree with you. What should happen, is that there should be two levels of e-mail in each e-mail address. You have the 'outer level' that has no access to your inner system (all files are quarentined) and an 'inner level' that only accepts validated mail. That would solve some of it.
Newest scam: The Microsoft Lottery Scam
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david_nwpa1 year, 2 months ago
I want to write a program that will roll all my spam for the day into one email. Think about it, the same lady who wants to have hot lesbian sex while selling me Cialis can help me refinance my home as I am sending money off to my long lost relatives in Nigeria. Then I only have to delete one message.
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kindwishez1 year, 2 months ago
I know, it amazes me what these people come up with .
I received one in which I won the
Yahoo & Microsoft lottery combined ,
besides that I regulary win the jackpot on the lottery every day (multiple times a day :), and also seems like every millioner stuck in the other side of the world wants to dump their millions on me . Lucky me !
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capn_caveman1 year, 2 months ago
One thing we do know is that spammers are a resourceful bunch. Despite efforts from many sources to combat spam, I still get a pile of it in my inbox every day. This type of tactic to undermine the infrastructure of the spammer's network will probably slow it down for a while. But don't ever count out the spammers; they will find a way to adjust. As long as they are making money, they will find a way to spam.
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Ciera-Marie1 year, 2 months ago
We have the room. Look at one of the fastest growing industries, prisons.
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Karmina1 year, 2 months ago
Most amusing comments I've read in a long time. Thanks for the lack of acrimony.
I hate to tell you folks, but I seldom get spam. At least with the one e-mail address I use the most. I use it primarily to correspond with friends and relatives and I'm very careful about who gets that e-mail address. I credit that and AOL's seemingly good spam filters and the fact that my screen name is not something that can be randomly generated and I don't go out to the 'net using that e-mail address. I have several e-mail addresses and they all have a different purpose. One is for lists and others are for shopping, surfing and gathering spam which pretty much gets ignored:0)
Nevertheless, I agree that spam needs to be stopped.
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kindwishez1 year, 2 months ago
Talking about spam, now that we are all here, folks who are regular here, please try to visit these pages more often and report these spam posts, this way we can stay proactive combating it on Netscape (I know it is a different kind of spam) , you can just replace the last "tag" with some other pill or porn related products, but I see the most coming from here, sink and report pls, if they see that we police them frequently they will stop posting it sooner or later .
http://www.netscape.com/tag/viagra
http://www.netscape.com/tag/phentermine
http://www.netscape.com/tag/soma
http://www.netscape.com/tag/cialis
Thanks
P.S. Here is a good example, in this case they put "generic" addition to the tags
http://health.netscape.com/story/2007/03/05/buy...
You can see the on the frontpage when they post, in Netscape Live Tracker .
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BronxBomber1 year, 2 months ago
It doesn't work in Yahoo for some reason or myway. I still keep getting the same spammers.
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B737Tech1 year, 2 months ago
There is a freeware program called MAILWASHER that will allow you to delete spam before it hits your INBOX. If you don't mind paying a few bucks you can bounce it back to the source.
I probably delete 150 to 200 pieces of spam a day with it.
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BronxBomber1 year, 2 months ago
Hah! That's nothing!
I get spammed alot about enlarging my breast's! Sheesh! I mean, WTF!!!???
=o/
You think they mixed up our email addresses?
:o/
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kindwishez1 year, 2 months ago
Here is another story that I just found and posted .
RE: Stock email spam (most of us have seen this type before )
http://money.netscape.com/story/2007/08/09/soph...
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ozobozob1 year, 2 months ago
to stop all this congress ahs to pass one simple law.
a spammer may not block return mail including attachments
if everyone spammed returned the spam with large attachments you could shut down the server.
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OldRusty1 year, 2 months ago
Print the name and address of each and every spammer,.let us take care of the mess.
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arthur-xxiii1 year, 2 months ago
If spam is unwanted e-mail intending to try to sell me something then no, I don't think it will ever stop. I have had e-mail accounts with both Yahoo and Hotmail. I have received spam from yahoo and msn. I don't read it, I just mark it spam and move on. They don't have enough respect for their own customers to keep from sending them spam. As long as money matters more to people than respect does then it won't stop. If a law is passed, a loop hole will be found. It is the American way. They are not the only "legitimate" businesses send me spam either. So there's the name of two of them. Their web addresses are www.msn.com and www.Yahoo.com. If you want their physical addresses too, I'm sure I can get you that. Now what did you have in mind?
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BronxBomber1 year, 2 months ago
You guys should see my blocked email addresses in my Outlook Express alone. It would circumnavigate the world at least a dozen times!
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GentleGiant1 year, 2 months ago
Yes, because we all know that ALL muslims are terrorists...
Do you have any more narrow-minded, uneducated, racist and xenophobic comments up your sleeve?
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GentleGiant1 year, 2 months ago
One would think that passing laws that punish those who pay others for spamming would solve the problem to some extent. I mean, people has to spam for a reason. From the article:
"Many links contain extra information to identify that identifies the spam sender, who then receives a commission for the traffic they generate."
If you make that kind of payment illegal then hopefully spam would subside.
In other words, go after the firms being advertised instead of those punks doing the advertising.
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