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Read Latest Entries..: (Post #27) by yordan on Feb 2 2006, 04:32 PM.
QUOTEI get like 10 spam mails in my Gmail a day!! There are a lot of posts on astahost forums explaining that gmal anti-spam is very efficient. Did you activate yours ?
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How to Reduce Spams - Let us help fight spams.

jtakano
I'm sure all of the people here in this forum experienced receiving spams. But the question is how in the hell spammers get those e-mail addresses? Simple, if you have your e-mail addresses posted on your website, or you are propagating your own e-mail add through message boards and giving away e-mail addresses on untrusted websites, you'll receive spam. In other words, the more your e-mail add is propagated, the more you'll receive spam.

Of course, there are also simple ways to reduce receiving spams.

1. If you have a website, hide your e-mail address from spammers by using Unicode characters -or- use something like this:
yournameREMOVETHIS@domain.com

E-mail address encoders should be Javascript. Unicode can be read by spammers using latest technologies. Just like search engines, they improve. Go to the ff: site
http://ssmedia.com/Utilities/Unicode/

2. Never post your e-mail addresses online especially on message boards. If it's necessary use an alternate e-mail address instead like Yahoo Mail because it already have a bulk mail feature.

3. Do not reply to spam or buy anything from spam e-mails. They will just know that your e-mail address is legitimate and will just be sold away to other spammers, thus, you'll receive more spams. Tsk tsk.

4. Also never unsubscribe. See No.3.

5. Instead of putting your e-mail address on your website, use a Formmail instead. Astahost, I believe provides that sort of pre-scripts. See your Cpanel and Formail. That will help a lot.

6. You can also use a temporary e-mail address just in case. Good ones are Mailinator.com

7. If you are really tired with the hundreds of spams you receive, use an e-mail filter. There's a lot of free ones on the web. Search on Google.

Note that if you use e-mail addresses of the big ones like Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, AOL, Comcast, etc. you'll receive spam no matter what. Even you just made a new e-mail address (I have a new gmail account, never propagated to anywhere, but I still receive spam). Very few people knows exactly how spammers harvest addresses. Just like the mystery of Google search engine optimization. That's technology.

But if you use your own mail address from your ISP or your own domain name, take advantage of it. I had been careful with my e-mail address and from 2 months until now, I received zero spams.

Those are simple things you can do. It's not that hard so if we all cooperate, we can stop spam. However, spamming on forums is another story... tongue.gif

If you have any other ideas you want to add, just add it here. Many will appreciate it.

 

 

 


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jcguy
Spammers have their own technology which is very much like Google's bot. They have built their own spiders which crawls the web just like Google, except that spammers' bots are designed to look for exposed email addresses, ie emails posted on message boards, and so on as described by jtakano. So if your email address exists on some webpages, it could get picked up.

Such bots escpeially like to surf the databases of domain name registars because you need to provide a valid email address to order a domain.

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kelp
There are things such as "disposable emails" you can use. What they do is generate an email address for you to use for things you sign up for you think might carry spam. They get deleted after a time or after a number of messages have reached the address.
An example is spamgourmet.

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melanie
That is awesome!!! Thanks.. I will use the javascript! And also, that mailinator site is nifty. happy.gif

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phoboi
A good way to help fight spammers is to link to this website. http://www.spamhelp.org/harvesterkiller/

This webpage randomly generates a 100 email addresses. At the bottom is another link that leads to more randomly generated email addresses. Email address harvesters or spambots would just fill up their databases with fake email addresses and continue to follow the link. They'll eventually end up in an infinite loop.

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prolifik
QUOTE (jtakano @ Sep 17 2004, 07:46 PM)
3. Do not reply to spam or buy anything from spam e-mails. They will just know that your e-mail address is legitimate and will just be sold away to other spammers, thus, you'll receive more spams. Tsk tsk.

4. Also never unsubscribe. See No.3.
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I totally agree about number 4. Based on my personal experience, i tried unsubscribing from different sites that keep sending me emails with ads and other stuff but after a few days or weeks, i'd still get emails from these sites. One in particular is FlowGo. So after reading about an article that you should never unsubscribe from these mailing lists, i followed it and what i do with those pesky spam mails, i just mark them as junk or spam and let my filters do the work. tongue.gif

 

 

 


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wannabeeaweak
usally a good to stop getting spams is by like u have said is not sign up for newsletters, not putting your email on your site and maybe putting a forward email addresse to your email addresse, or by not putting your email addresse in a email that u think is a spammer , and by when they send u spam look on the email to see if their is a part that say to unsicribe click here or some close to that

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qwijibow
I read that many spam emails were sent by zombie machines....
so why not fight spam at the source, Put more pressure on poeple to keep there systems secure.

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NilsC
I'm resurecting this topic instead of creating another. smile.gif

Some good posts in here to reduce spam. I use disposable email addresses from sneakemail.com (free account). It's a great tool to use for signing up for "stuff" on the internet. When the need is done, deactivate the email and "poof" no more spam.

It's a great tool to see who sells your email address. Every address you create will have the ID you put in there. One year down the road you start getting a bunch of different offers from one of the places you signed up for a newsletter or some other stuff. You also opted out of receiving any emails from partners etc. Here is the proof if you are receiving partner email.

As you can see from my sig file, I hate spam. I'd like to invoke death penalty for spamming... laugh.gif

I'm for spamtraps and I report all spam... I use scripts to give out random and unique "real" email addresses to spam harvesters. email addresses are created using donated mx addresses and there are email servers that collect all the spam received. This is a new way of limiting spam and it will help law enforcement to catch the harvesters.

I'm using a script in my email server to create a "RBL" Real Time Blocklist" of the IP addresses of boots that hit the trap. The RBL uses the /24 CIDR for that IP address because it looks like the initial "bounce" test comes from the same IP / IP range. The bounce test must to be a way they verify the email address before they incorporate it and sell the mailing list.

Seeding email addresses that "may" become a real address is not a good way to prevent spam. Some time in the future sombody may get that domain name and end up with spam from day one.

If you are using php on your website you can put a spamharvest page on your website. It's not visible to humans, good spiders and boots follow the rules and don't harvest. "BAD" spiders and boots follow the link and receive a timestamped email address and the IP address is logged. Follow the link on my page to see how you can help catch spam harvesters.

Nils

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MajesticTreeFrog
Hey Nilsc, Is there a way to set something like this up for our posts on the forum here? Like, putting a honeypot email in our sig somehow so that evil bots that hit this forum can be blacklisted?

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yordan
QUOTE
I get like 10 spam mails in my Gmail a day!!

There are a lot of posts on astahost forums explaining that gmal anti-spam is very efficient. Did you activate yours ?

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cyborgxxi
Okay, is there a way how to reduce spam that you already have? I get like 10 spam mails in my Gmail a day!! It's crazy!!

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Sarah81
I used one of those free search engine submission sites to put my site out there. Big mistake. The e-mail address associated with my Web site gets TONS of those stupid Nigerian e-mails (yeah, you know, the guys who are allegedly trying to offer me tons of cash to help them move money out of their countries).

I finally got sick of reporting all the stupid e-mails to Hotmail or Yahoo (just about all of the e-mails come from people using one account or the other).

So ... if you go with search-engine submission sites, be sure to use a disposable e-mail address. Make sure that you keep the thing just long enough to receive any activation links that you might have to use.

As for the rest of the types of spam (the usual viagra/free gift cards/etc. deals), I let Yahoo's spam filters take care of the problem. Mine filters out more than 90 percent of the spam that I receive, so I'd say that it's doing a pretty good job.

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yordan
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6. You can also use a temporary e-mail address just in case. Good ones are Mailinator.com

Really nice info, thanks.
I just used an e-mail at mailinator.com for gaming, have been asked for confirmation, was able to read the mail and click in the "validate" link, and instantly received five spams !
So, the mailinator.com address is really useful!
thanks again.
Yordan

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a_margaret
I get e-mails that say

QUOTE
"LUCKYDAY E-MAIL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
www.
luckyday.nl

REF: OHS/8061226703/01
BATCH: 17/033/IHV /NL   

Sir/Madam

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lottery
Winners International programs held on the 28th of JANUARY,2006. Your
e-
mail address attached toticket number 0511465846229 with serial number
4732-6 drew lucky numbers 01-19-12-75-39 which  consequently won in the
2nd category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out
of $800.000.00(Eight Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) only.

CONGRATULATIONS!
Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that
you keep your winning information confidential until  your claims has
been processed and your money Remitted to you and this is part of our
security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of
this program by some participants. All participants were selected
through a computer  ballot system drawn from over 60,000 company and
50,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all over the
world. This promotional program takes place every five year. We hope
with part of your winning you will take part in our next five years of
50 million United States Dollars International lottery. To file for
your claim, please contact our Fiducial Agent:

MR.Van Miller.
ARBO
CLAIM INTERNATIONAL AGENCY BV.
TEL:+31-612-680-287
FAX:+31-847-301-457
Email:arboclaimagency@myway.com

Remember, all winning must be claimed
not later than  15th of FEBRUARY, 2006 and after this date all
unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake promotion.

Please
note that in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications,
remember to always quote your reference numbers and batch numbers in
all your correspondence. Furthermore, should there be any change of
your address, do inform our Fiducial Agent as soon as possible.

Congratulations once again from the members of our staff and thank you
for being part of our promotional program and publication.

Sincerely
yours,
Mrs.Janet Collins
Lottery Coordinator"


and

QUOTE
MRS. CLOWI LUMKA.
76 BARCKSTON DRIVE BLAIRGORIE,
RAMBURG JOHANNESBURG,
GAUTENG SAUTH AFRICA.
TEL: 27-82-421-8164.

                                      INVITATION FOR PARTNERSHIP

Dear Sir,madan

With due respect, trust and humility, I write to you this proposal,
which I
believe would be of great interest to you. I find your contact while I
was
doing a private research on the Internet for a reliable and capable
foreign
partner that will assist my family to transfer fund to his personal or
private account for investment purpose. I am Mrs.CLOWI LUMKA the wife
of
Late Mr.COLMAN LUMKA, who was the "Chairman" of the farmer?s
co-operation in
Zimbabwe.

It will be necessary to inform you that the {US$11.5M} Eleven Million
Five
Hundred Thousand united states dollars)intended for pitalization of the
investments are presently in the custody of a private security company
here
in Johannesburg, South Africa which we require to transfer out of South
Africa immediately for the said investment purposes.

You may have heard of the present crisis in Zimbabwe orchestrated by
the
unprecedented Land use Act of the government of Robert Mugabe in which
this
government has arbitrarily reclaimed and acquired all farmlands owned
by the
white farmers in the country.

This has caused a historical displacement of the white folks who are
known
to be the country's main farmers. The ensuing struggles and strife have
brought about the killing and imprisonment of thousands of these white
farm
owners by the ruthless government forces designated to enforce this new
order.

My husband, in his good will, joined the international community in
condemning and speaking out against this uncivilized and bizarre policy
of
Robert Mugabes government. As a result of my husband firm and upright
position on this matter, a group of assailants suspected to be
government
sympathizers attached and killed my husband in cold blood.

Seeing that the entire LUMKA's family was in serious threat of
extinction,
we immediately fled Zimbabwe to South Africa, where we have sojourned
ever
since as refugee under the United Nations.

Prior however, to my husband untimely death he had sensing the rising
hostilities, sold some of his farm lands and secretly sent the proceeds
{US$11.5m} Eleven million Five Hundred Thousand United States dollars
from
sales of the farmlands to South Africa. And deposited it in a metal box 
with a private security company here in Johannesburg.

We are presently in South Africa as Refugee (Asylum Seekers) We are
ready to
come in terms on what you will want my family to offer you for your
assistance in this transaction, contact me on the above phone
indicating
your interest as soon as possible, or my son CHURCHILL in South Africa
with
me, e-mail address: churchill_za@hotmail.com. We shall be glad to give
you
more clarification on the modalities needed for smooth successful
completion
of this transaction.

It is equally important to state here that considering the nature of
this
matter, we will required that it is handled most discreetly.

I anticipate your quick response.

Best regard.

Mrs. CLOWI  LUMKA.
(For and On behalf of my family)


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