Hi,
Just wondering if anyone else is getting an increase in the amount of spam email being sent to the email address published on this forum? I've noticed a big increase in the last few months and it is a bit of a pain in the a$$...

I used the email address locostbuilder@craig.chamberlain.name for about 2.5 years after joining the forum but then started getting spam sent to that address. I then changed the address in my LB forum profile to be locostbuilders@... only a few months ago and now I'm getting spam sent to the new address.

It's not a major problem for me because I can just add a number to the end of my email address and reject any emails which come in to my old addresses. I then just increment the number each time I get spam and move on again. I could also add in extra characters and phrases to my email address (like NOSPAM) to try to fool the harvesters but I don't like doing that and the harvesters will filter out the more common phrases.

Any ideas why this forum seems to be getting harvested more, or is it just me? My thoughts are that someone may have produced an automated script which uses the member list to harvest emails in bulk. I'm a software consultant so I know how easy this is to do. It could be defeated in a number of ways which I won't go into here but I wanted to check first if anyone else out there has noticed and increase in spamming.

Cheers,
Craig.

My spam has increased in the last week or so. Previously, BT stopped it, but it's getting through now.

Yes to that one.

I'm with BT and have had a very small increase in spam.

I get lots of offers to enlarge my penis.

My main worry is how do they all know it needs doing?

Yep. Get about ten a day at the minute.

I get the do you want a big nob spam with MSN. why do they ask me that, havnt they seen me?

yep been wandering why



edit sh1t just noticed a 10x increase on normall

[Edited on 2/3/06 by big_wasa]


Edit 2 This is getting stupid Thats 40+ today normal would be 2 or 3

[Edited on 2/3/06 by big_wasa]

I get about 40 a day most into my spam box on BT

Dave

BT mail accounts caused me terrible spam problems particularly immediately after the BT Yahoo deal --- so much so I moved on to much better (but more expensive ISP).

I would sugest a couple of easy measures
1st is register a domain name, with "parking" and mail redirection to your existing email account(s) this only costs a few pounds.

That way you can use instant throwaway email addresses for any website that want to send you a user name password by email.

The second is use a junk filter:
You can either use Mozilla Thunderbird which has its own built in junk filtering to replace Outlook Express or if you want to keep using MS Outlook in Windows you can instal a proxy mail filter that sits between Outlook and your internet connection -- I can recommend either K9 or Spam Pal, both of which are higly effective and pretty painless to set up.
K9 is very very good -- just single click set up.

Useful download and info urls below --- all three programs are truly free software

http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird

http://keir.net/k9.html

http://www.spampal.org/



[Edited on 2/3/06 by britishtrident]

It's the emails about 'enlarging my member' that come from my wife that hurt the most...

Mine's up to 73 in my junk mail today. I've just put this on to see if it does anything. Blue Frog It's free so it's worth a try if you use a web based address.

That's why I don't make my email addy publicly visible...

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Originally posted by Peteff
Mine's up to 73 in my junk mail today. I've just put this on to see if it does anything. Blue Frog It's free so it's worth a try if you use a web based address.

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