Overwhelmed with Spam in the last three days!
Wow, what is going on? In the last three days, I have gotten over 70 spam emails, some purporting to come from me! Bad spelling, phony gift cards, **bleep** enhancement, sexual positions, you name ...
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Me too. Within the past two weeks, I suddenly started getting several of these each day, from different userids and with domains all ending with .nelottery.com, for example,
2XF4Z@PJYRUGCFKJ.nelottery.com or RSWBV@DIAKN7TDC1.nelottery.com
Since 'nelottery.com' is not the full domain name, these clearly have nothing to do with the nelottery.com domain, but are probably intended to make one think so - enough to click to open the spam messages.
Though my Mac Mail program identifies these as possible spam, in brown, I'd rather not see them at all. I wish hughes could just block anything from domains ending in xxx.nelottery.com (where xxx is some non-null character string).
The *.nelottery.com part of the email address means nothing. Spammers often steal pseudo-valid but fake email addresses/domains in order for them to pass certain SpamAssassin tests.
What matters is the final IP address from where the HN email server received them, which indicate the open relay(s).
That's what you want to block, not the email address.
MarkJFine wrote:The *.nelottery.com part of the email address means nothing. Spammers often steal pseudo-valid but fake email addresses/domains in order for them to pass certain SpamAssassin tests.
What matters is the final IP address from where the HN email server received them, which indicate the open relay(s).
That's what you want to block, not the email address.
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Spam. I really hate it, and the people behind it. All spammers are liars, and anyone who buys anything advertised in a spam mail is part of the problem.
I frequently report spammers and their fraudulent web sites when I have the time. Here's some of my favorite tools:
- Report a Phishing Page: https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?hl=en (Integrates with Mozilla Thunderbird)
- Report Gmail Spam: https://support.google.com/mail/contact/abuse@ - Report Reply To @gmail addresses
- SpamCop: http://www.spamcop.net/ (The RBLs do use the reports to flag IP and sites)
- Redirect Detective: http://redirectdetective.com/ (useful for tracing the "real" spam site
- Domain Tools WHOIS Checker: http://whois.domaintools.com/ (Identifies who owns the IP/Registered the spam site)
But it's a lot like playing "Whack a Mole." Pretty soon your mouse finger just gets tired of sending reports.
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