Woke up this morning and had 3750 messages in my inbox, of which 3650 are return errors. Seems like somone chose to use my email address to send out spam messages.
Bastards.
Damn Spammers
by John Cole| 23 Comments
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Zifnab
Ouch. Damn. Welcome to the internet. She is a fickle bitch.
PeterR
either that, or you’re computer has been infected by a zombie program, so that it actually is sending out those e-mails. I’d have it looked into if I were you –
The Other Steve
Occasionally someone will use one of my domains as the return address and start sending out spam. As a result I get thousands of return errors.
I had to disable the wildcard matching on my email server.
I use a combination of spam rules on my mail server, plus outlook 2003’s spam filter. That helps. But I probably get 500 messages a week, and that doesn’t include the political spam I get from campaigns.
At least the GOP no longer sends me stuff. I guess writing back “Fuck you and go to hell”, they got the message.
Pb
I get tons of spam to some of my accounts, but Mozilla Mail handles it quite well, and Gmail doesn’t do badly either.
Zifnab
Why are you such an angry liberal?
Sirkowski
The same thing happend to me this week. Goddamn spoofing.
Par R
Are you sure it wasn’t just a mistaken Glenn Greenwald faux comment that went awry??
DougJ
Isn’t that the beginning of a classic Buddy Guy tune?
Pharniel
i’ve had two spammers getting me to try to open up attachments have been having conversations on my account.
Mt. pleasent planning committe indeed..
S.W. Anderson
Maybe we should bring back the fine old tradition of putting evildoers in stocks in public squares, so people can curse them and their misdeeds, face to face. Evildoers of the spamming kind, anyway. Second offenders get a public whipping.
Three strikes — don’t ask.
Pb
DougJ,
You sure it wasn’t Jimmy Reed?
When I woke up this mornin’, I thought I had new mail,
I woke up this mornin’, I, I, thought I had new mail,
I thought I had new mail, but the mail I had was spam…
Marcus Wellby
I would just like to take a moment to thank both John and Tim for making this blog a Lieberman free zone. Seems like other blogs have devoted themselves entirely to the CT Dem primary and, really, there is only so much that can be said about it.
Catsy
I’ve had my own domain for about seven years now, and I’m lucky enough to have a host that lets me create as many email aliases as I want so that I don’t have to set up my own email hosting. In the last few years I’ve developed a system that works really, really well.
I have one POP3 mailbox whose address I never give to ANY site or publish publicly ANYWHERE on the net. It is given to friends with the understanding that they treat it as confidential. I have never once gotten spam on this address.
For site registrations, any time I have to sign up at a web site I create a new alias like [email protected], and redirect it to my POP3 mailbox. That way if I start getting spam, I know exactly who the culprit is, and I can terminate the offending alias and create a new one.
You’ve got your own domain, John–I highly recommend this method. Unless your computer gets infected with something, or you pick a really obvious name for your POP3 mailbox, it’s pretty much foolproof.
Krista
There’s a special place in hell reserved for spammers. Bastards.
Joe Gandelman
This isn’t unusual. I’ve had my email address harvested both from my weblog site (it’s under CONTACT) and from my ventriloquism/entertainment business site. The person who set up my vent site told me her company’s name was also borrowed once. It happened for a while, then stopped.
Wretched Refuse
Zifnab Says:
At least the GOP no longer sends me stuff. I guess writing back “Fuck you and go to hell”, they got the message.
Why are you such an angry liberal?
If you think The Other Steve is Angry, you have not been paying attention. I find his reply to the GOP to measured and fully American. They send him unsolicited email, then they should told exactly what it is they are asking for, hiw opinion.
I routinely tell any zomboid-publican that they will be hung as the Apologista they are for enabling this traitor and war criminal. So I guess I am just as or more angry than Steve. It is the right thing to do.
Jill
There’s a special place in hell reserved for spammers and GWB.
RSA
The same place?
Bob In Pacifica
Went through a six-pack of Downtown Brown. Good stuff.
Stephen
For three months now I’ve received some quite revolting spam all with the same look and feel, and while 98% is filtered the odd one still creeps through. I’m getting sick of waiting for the Beyesian filter to recognise the nasties and I’m increasingly tempted to click on the link in the emails labelled ‘click here to be taken off the mailing list’. I’m getting desperate, should I click? Or is that just what they want me to do??
PS: I don’t care about viruses/trojans etc – I run a current Linux distro.
Jim Allen
That is, indeed, what they want you to do. In effect, you’re letting them know that they have a live, valid address.
Never click on that link unless you trust the site.
demimondian
Stephen, if you really want to avoid receiving spam, you need to move to a truly secure operating system. I, personally, suggest Plan 9, or maybe VMS.
hereismyname
Spamcop.net is an excellent tool for finding out who is sending spam and sending out reports to stop the flow.
I used to get ten or more a month now I usually get one every month or two.