Community Newsletter: Q&A: What can I do to stop spam?
- 10/11/07 12:57 PM
There is a simple solution:
by jvb - 10/6/07 8:48 PM In reply to: What can I do to stop spam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
When my SPAM to LEGIT ratio hit 10:1, I went very proactive:
1. I registered a personal domain name with a registrar who gave me a free mailbox with autoforwarding and 100 alias names.
2. The domain name was registered through a proxy service that keeps my personal information away from the public domain registration information.
3. I created a couple of dozen email names all autoforwarded to my real mailbox.
4. If my name gets sold to a spammer, I can trace who sold me out. I can delete that alias email name when it begins to receive SPAM.
5. I review email in my real mailbox with Mailwasher Pro before downloading to my email client.
This exercise cost me about US$75, but I've received less than 10 pieces of SPAM in 11 months and not aware of any loss of a legitimate piece of email.
An added bonus is that I'm able to change ISPs without having to change email addresses. I only need to change the autoforward destination address.
My 2cents
by zbatia - 10/7/07 9:39 PM In reply to: There is a simple solution: by jvbI found it quite interesting. I also would like to add my 2 cents: http://securecyber.blogspot.com
http://www.800-security.com/tech/SPAMaddresses.txt
The DRASTIC solution will PREVAIL.
by tecnorbe - 10/7/07 10:36 AM In reply to: What can I do to stop spam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Nobody seems giving her/his own web mail in forums like this one.
But I do!
This is my web mail address:
http://rame.newnetmail.com
There is no error, no arroba sign (@).
No spam, no virus, no phishing!
Check the address to get your own free.
At last! A web mail that even movie stars would share through all the web, without privacy concerns!
Now I control who I allow to write me or not.
If you evil spammer want to spam me, you will have to BEG me for
PERMISSION! And what do you think my answer will be? You-are-history!...
Back to my fellow friends ... I would enjoy telling about its best features, like taking back a message sent with errors: "Noo, I forgot the attachment!" Not anymore, now I can get it back, fix it and resend. HaHa!
Well I think now you get the idea. Isn't it beautiful?
You can read the full uncut story at:
http://rame.thefinalchorus.com
Post data. The future of email.
by tecnorbe - 10/19/07 3:39 PM In reply to: The DRASTIC solution will PREVAIL. by tecnorbeThis is an entirely different way to messaging.
It is not compatible with arroba "@" emails.
However, you still need an old f@shioned email,
because it is like an antenna on internet.
But when you already have people to communicate
with, why not better put them on your "white list"
for communication? Show appreciation to them
and give free accounts.
Tell me if you have any problem signin in,
for example: not receiving verification in your
@ email, may be due to filters; then choose another
@ email account.
Once in, you will see that features like attachments
and recovering sent messages, are for upgraded members.
No surprises. This sounds adjusted to some post on
this blog about if there where costs of sending
emails, spam should not be a business anymore.
That's it, the future of email is working.
Scammers black list
by KCvale - 10/8/07 9:58 AM In reply to: What can I do to stop spam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Scammers have black list e-mail addresses they don't send to and it's great to get on these lists as those e-mails stop coming, not only that, it can really be entertaining to do.
I had fun for a week with a "You won a $2,000,000. Lottery" scammer in September and shared it on my Comedy Relief forum here:
http://vales.com/Evo2/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19153
Frustrating a scammer with poor english skills for a week to the point of making him swear at you in e-mail with his poor english and tell you to stop e-mailing him is both rewarding and hilarious, especially if you cap it off by laughing at him and telling him he is the idiot that got scammed and his money tranfer point has been reported thus forcing him to abandon his current one.
As for spam in general, I own my own domain name and have used the same e-mail address for 11 years.
I have it posted all over the internet, I will never stop using it (its my name) and I use Outlook with SpamBully.
Between Norton scanning my incoming and outgoing e-mail for nasties and SpamBully dealing with most eveything else I may half a dozen spams in my spam folder a day and maybe one or two a month in my other Outlook sorted in boxes.
Spam a problem? Pffffff.
If you use free web mail like Yahoo you spam yourself every time you check your mail with all their web ads, then spam everyone you e-mail too with the yahoo footer ad they attach to everything you send.
Free? They should be paying you for spaming for them.
THAT WAS HILARIOUS!!!!
by Mr.RumPig - 10/8/07 6:20 PM In reply to: Scammers black list by KCvaleLmao!!!
Forward emails correctly
by robert.bev - 10/13/07 3:34 PM In reply to: THAT WAS HILARIOUS!!!! by Mr.RumPigI have read some good ideas from the postings on these pages but still the best idea is still not to publisize your own email address or anybody elses.
It is the 50% of people who do not forward emails correctly that are giving away our email addresses to the spammers who need educating.
When forwarding an email to more than one person DO NOT USE the :To tab, or the :CC, BUT ALWAYS THE :BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) tab, this way everybody elses address will not be shown on the mail and passed on for public viewing.
And do Not put your email address on a petition no matter how worthy, most of them are designed to collect email addresses which are then sold on to SPAMMERS!! (If you feel strongly about a cause, a personal letter packs more weight and support)
By not publisizing our addresses the spam will eventualy dry up.
Regards Robert.
This worked for Me :)
by LMF5000 - 10/8/07 10:21 AM In reply to: What can I do to stop spam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
All you have to do is mark the spam as "spam". That way, your email website or program will stop all email coming from that address. Let me put it another way:
I have a gmail account. One of the buttons I can click is labeled "report spam." All I do is tick a spam message in my inbox, press the "report spam" button, and from that moment on, all emails coming from that email address are automatically sent to the spam folder. This system ensures that legitimate email never get accidentally sent to spam, and since spammers only change their email addresses infrequently, it works quite well (when the spammer DOES change his email address, resulting in spam appearing in your inbox, all you have to do is press that button again... problem solved 
Now, I know you might not have a gmail account, and that you want to keep your old email, so I suggest that you open a new gmail account, and then set your old email program or old email website to automatically forward all emails into your new gmail account. If you have any questions, contact me at LMF5000@gmail.com
Simple, use Yahoo, AOL, or MSN/ Hotmail
by superman227 - 10/9/07 12:49 AM In reply to: What can I do to stop spam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
For most people this is the easiest solution to the problem of spam. All of these services have spam filters built in. If, like me, you have high speed internet, you have email accounts that rely on outlook, outlook express, or thunderbird, etc. Most high speed providers have spam filters available for download on their website. This requires setting it up. In the NYC/ Long Island Region, Computer Associates' EZ Anti-Spam is available to Time Warner and Optimum Online subscribers for free. It works very well - probably only 3% false positives.
Most computer users just want their system to work. They don't want to think about their system maintenance at all. For novices, I recommend one or a combo of the top 3 providers for email, hardly any thinking needed. For my 1 myspace account, I registered a new yahoo account because I had a premonition that it meant junk mail up the yin-yang when you get on there, and it's true. I get at least 10 emails a day on an account used nowhere but for myspace registration.
No one can escape spam until ISPs jointly prevent fake ip addresses. ISPs need to make it where the actual originating IP address (last octave hidden for security)/ user name is in the email itself like AVG adds their tag that it's been scanned for viruses. If you're sending out an email, there is no reason why your name/ ip can't be in there. It's like sending mail to people 15 years ago. The recipient knows your name and address from the envelope. This country will never mandate that, makes too much sense.
thunderbird
by dressner - 10/9/07 8:25 AM In reply to: What can I do to stop spam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I used to get about an e-mail a day of spam. I was using AVG e-mail scanner and outlook express. I switched to mozilla thunderbird, and I haven't gotten any spam since.
My suggestion to stop spam
by Ms. A - 10/13/07 4:09 AM In reply to: What can I do to stop spam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
What I do is go to my message button, and hit bounce sender. Which in turn, then pops up block sender. It works every time!!! I don't get spam from that sender again, and have rarely gotten any lately.
Ms.A.
Change to G-mail!
by drez7 - 10/13/07 8:24 AM In reply to: What can I do to stop spam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Idk about anyone else, but any other e-mail I had before seemed to get tons of spam...maybe I'm just lucky, but it seems like gmail accounts get little to no spam. I've had a yahoo and hotmail account and they both get swamped...with my gmail account which I only use now and have had for around a year, I haven't even gotten one single shred of spam yet!
If you are using Yahoo Mail...
by donniestaggs - 10/19/07 7:46 AM In reply to: What can I do to stop spam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Everything was fine while I used IE6. I downloaded IE7 and spam started going to my Inbox instead of Spam folder. I tried Yahoo's spam settings but to no avail. I tried McAfee's E-Mail & IM protection but to no avail.
What does work is Yahoo Mails filters. You will find this under Mail Options. You have to enter the keywords and select a folder and after that the spam goes there where you can empty the folder when you choose.
Educate your friends
by robert.bev - 10/22/07 1:37 AM In reply to: If you are using Yahoo Mail... by donniestaggsHi again all
A better way is to keep your email address safe from the eyes of strangers in the first place, and only let people that matter to you have it.
It is just a matter of education, I don't want people that I do not know forwarding my address on a funny to every man and his dog!! but this is what is happening.
As far as I am aware 50% of Americans do not know how to pass on an email to more than one person and keep all the other addresses private.
Read my mails number 64 & 242 and educate all your friends.
Regards Robert.
One Thing That Works -- Don't read; don't delete
by mijcar - 10/21/07 8:21 PM In reply to: What can I do to stop spam? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
This is not a cure-all, but it is the only other thing that works (other than charging for email, that is).
First, this won't work for people who use email collectors: Outlook Express, AOL's AutoAOL, and the like.
Second, you must have some form of "keep as new" option in your email manager OR you must be able to recognize spam on sight.
The method: Never delete spam. I have found this strategy will reduce spam to less than a dozen a day.
It appears to work this way. Eventually, your ISP will return all unopened, undeleted email as "undeliverable." Spammers will remove you from their hit list. Why? Because they randomly send out email to contrived names to check for viable names. If nonviable names keep bouncing back to them, they would have as much trouble with email as the spammees do. So an undeliverable email is a signal to get rid of that address.
Is this the real reason this works. I have no idea; but I haven't heard a better suggestion.
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