eznfrank
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| posted on 5/10/09 at 07:32 PM |
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What to do with dodgy emails...........
I know we get a few dodgy "lottery/dead relative etc" email scams but do people know what to do with them?
Apologies if I'm teaching anyone to suck eggs but if you forward them to abuse@"insert email provider here" then the security team
will deal with it. So if they are saying respond to drnkoebe@hotmail.com just forward it to abuse@hotmail.com.
I know this won't stop them but the abuse teams tend to just close the accounts which means that if other people have been dumb enough to
respond to the scam then the con artist will not be able to communicate with them further and you can sleep tight in the knowledge that you may have
saved some old grannies life savings from a swift journey via Western Union to Nigeria!!
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speedyxjs
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| posted on 5/10/09 at 07:34 PM |
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I get so many, i would constantly be emailing them.
How long can i resist the temptation to drop a V8 in?
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nick205
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| posted on 5/10/09 at 07:51 PM |
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Good advice!
I'm sure most don't know it either 
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britishtrident
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| posted on 5/10/09 at 07:54 PM |
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Most spam & scams originate from locations where the ISPs don't care so the senders don't get their accounts blocked.
The only thing that is really effective against spammers is black hole lists such as Spanhaus (http://www.spamhaus.org/) most abuse teams forward
reported spam to Spamhaus and other blackhole list and use the Spamhause database for their own spam block list.
Some ISPs just let spam straight through to your account but the better ISPs are pretty good at spam filtering.
We also use desktop spam filtering using Robin Keir's K9 (on Windows) PC and Thunderbird's baysian and and blacklist own filtering.
On average less than 1 spam gets through to the inbox out of over 100 good emails.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 5/10/09 at 07:57 PM |
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For anybody running thunderbird this is worth browsing
http://opensourcearticles.com/introduction_to_thunderbird_5
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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JoelP
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| posted on 5/10/09 at 08:01 PM |
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i delete all emails unread, unless i actually know the sender. Paranoid maybe, but unless its someone i know, im not remotely interested in it. If its
clearly a phishing email (ie if it says its from any financial institution) i mark it as phishing for hotmail to worry about.
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BenB
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| posted on 5/10/09 at 08:07 PM |
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I use Spamwasher so I can bounce any spam e-mails. That being said, most will have a spoofed reply-to address anyway....
Reporting them to abuse@ will do nothing!!
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eznfrank
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| posted on 5/10/09 at 08:20 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by BenB
I use Spamwasher so I can bounce any spam e-mails. That being said, most will have a spoofed reply-to address anyway....
Reporting them to abuse@ will do nothing!!
Abuse@ teams close hundreds of accounts every day from reports from members of the public.
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RichieHall
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| posted on 5/10/09 at 09:04 PM |
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Without teaching anyone to suck eggs, the worst possible thing you could do with these emails is reply as the majority of these accounts are automated
and will flag any reply, however offensive, as a valid email address and forward many, many more to you
Rust is lighter than Carbon Fibre!
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wilkingj
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| posted on 5/10/09 at 09:05 PM |
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I just delete them using Mailwasher.
Replying, will just alert the sender there is a live person at that email address, which will then just attract even more emails.
I must admit the BTInternet Spam servers work pretty well for me.
NEVER respond to any spam, its a recipe for trouble!
1. The point of a journey is not to arrive.
2. Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
Best Regards
Geoff
http://www.v8viento.co.uk
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