i get the same, i think its jsut junk mail, the thing is the more you block them the msre seem to come. they are actually trying to make it illegal for companys to email junk mail so they can be fined.

I get lots of these too. They don't bother me to much 'cos I don't open emails unless I recognise the addys anyway (had lots of virus trouble before).

I seem to be getting a spate of these as well at the moment

I just hit the delete button and block sender

we get them everyday

Whatever you do, don't click a link to "unsubscribe" from getting them, as all this does is shows that your account is active and puts you on more list.

Have you tried reporting them to their ISP?

Spam, UCE and all other forms of electronic junk mail are endemic in all but the most secluded regions of the internet

As was mentioned before - don't respond to them or click any links (especially not 'unsubscribe' links), and where possible avoid opening junk mail altogether.

Forward the complete message (including all the headers - not just the From line but all of them, including the received path and, most importantly, the X-SMTP-PEER-INFO line) to your ISP (they'll have a spam complaints address of some description, check their support pages for it).

You may wish to modify your mail filters to be more aggressive - most of my accounts filter out any email that isn't to: or cc: me, so anything bcc:'d to me gets killed, with explicit passes for various mailing lists and such which legitimately bcc me. Also you may wish to block all mail from certain domains - eg block *@hotmail.com with explicit passes for anyone you know on hotmail.

Syd - i got all this junk too - i just delete as soon as it arrives

yep get loads of this too!! Especially the "Muscles" one.

Having my own domain name, I get spam by the truckload - chain letters, viagra, investment advice, Nigerian 401s, porn, some of it especially unpleasant, offers to enlarge both male and female body parts etc. I've managed to set up filters that automatically delete a fair proportion of it but that still leaves a large amount coming through.

I must confess however, I was quite amused by the ones that offer to make me an ordained minister so I can officiate at family weddings and funerals.

Nonetheless, I consider spammers warrant public floggings, along with virus writers, religious fanatics, people who double park on busy streets and air travellers who take on hand luggage way bigger than the specified limits and hog all the space in the overhead lockers or whine that there isn't enough space to stow their stuff.

Er... pardon me while I wipe the foam from my mouth. My mother once said I was becoming downright Singaporean in my old age...

There was an article on the slashdot website about spamming earlier today, which contained the cheering gem:

Bernard Balan, 51, who operates a bulk mail site from
Emsdale, Ontario, called one-stop-financial.com, says
he has gone through "unbelievable hardships" to keep
the spam flowing. "My operating costs have gone up
1,000 percent this year, just so I can figure out how
to get around all these filters," said Balan

Woo-hoo Filtering works people, if their spam isn't reaching their victims (us) then the scum who employ spammers will stop paying them. I'm with Ming on the hang 'em and flog 'em (both the spammers and those who employ their services), 3 domains = loadsa spam for me

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by Callum
I'm with Ming on the hang 'em and flog 'em (both the spammers and those who employ their services)

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Although I'd prefer to reverse the order. Seems kind of pointless (although possibly personally satisfying) to flog them after they've been hanged.

Yep, we get loads of spam. I dislike filtering, it annoys me that they should be in my mailbox anyway, and it smacks of ignoring the problem. That's not to say I don't filter. What I do though, if I have the time and they're getting on my nerves is to try to tackle them directly.

I usually reply to the mail, telling them to remove me and cc "abuse@theirdomain.com" which is the standard address for reporting problems. You may want to visit their site, find the addresses of some REAL people there, and add those into the CC list. That might get their attention when they're getting porn in their own mailbox.

If they dont respond to this, I find out the administraive and techncial contact for the domain, who can be found from doing a "whois". You can find one here

Complain to those contacts, who often are not the spammer company, but the people who registered their domain for them, and they wont like being emailed with complaints and are more likely to do something.

No response on that? Run a traceroute to their domain, find who the ISP is and complain to them.

Yes its a long route to follow, but its satisfying when they go away.

I complained about one domain that kept spamming me, and a day later their domain didn't exist anymore. Dunno if that was to do with me, but I like to think so.

I find myself really quite lucky as i rarely get any Spam. I get the odd message prolly about 3 messages a week, but they've been clean. Maybe it's something to do with on my account being under 18 - i dunno

What i do know though, is my mum gets masses and masses of them - but she only really gives out her e-mail addy to special things like holiday booking etc.

I recommend visiting mailwasher.net and downloading their free software.

It enables you to bounce back unwanted e-mails (while they are still on the server) so it looks as if your email address is not valid. This will make the sender think your address is no longer active so your name can be removed from their list.

(They are currently working on a version for use with hotmail and other web mail.)

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by Ming
Nigerian 401s,

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We get the nigerian and now romanian ones as regular as clockwork at work ... as soon as you block one address you get another - yesterday we had 10 in a row!

I get a lot of junk mail at home and just keep hitting the delete button till its gone, get a couple of quiet days and then the same again.

Sydney, are you an ebay user? Cause I'm sure the worst of mine started when I became a member there?

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by Pegasus
We get the nigerian and now romanian ones as regular as clockwork at work

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Not seen those. Is the story any different to the Nigerian ones?

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Sydney, are you an ebay user? Cause I'm sure the worst of mine started when I became a member there?

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Aha! I am and that might explain why, in addition to all the stuff addressed to something@looi.com, I'd started getting stuff addressed to ming@looi.com too, the only address I actually use. Spammers harvesting addresses of eBay would explain a lot.

(Edited by Ming 07/08/2002 22:48)

I get sent loads of porn, all with disgusting subject names tried blocking it but they send from all different adresses, how annoying!!

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by Ferretgirl
I find myself really quite lucky as i rarely get any Spam. I get the odd message prolly about 3 messages a week, but they've been clean. Maybe it's something to do with on my account being under 18 - i dunno

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No, my 12 year old cousin gets porn spam

My Hotmail account is totally spammed, (why I stopped using it) It is that way because A it has my name in it and name generators create it when they send out millions of letters, B I used it whenever I thought the address could create spam, and spam creates spam (Even mail boc full repies to sender creates spam as it tells an autosystem that the address exits.

My freeserve account is spam free, that is as freeserve adresses are long with a name@anotherword.freeserve.co.uk format so random generaters are less able to create the whole lot, and most spam is aimed at the us market so they do not bother with britsh servers or .co.uk so much (though my never used yahoo.co.uk does get the occasional piece.


As for domain names my never used domain name is never spamed (it redirects to the freeserve accounts (revealhsitory.com) the web page I meant to build is still unconstructed.

The crap I get unbelievable. From offers of breast enlargement- I kid you not to help with the IRS which has as much use as a chocolate fireguard. I just sigh and hit delete. It is something like twenty a day. In effect about 95-99%.