344 Days Later - Spam Review
I’ve been estimating that I receive approximately 1400 emails per day … but, really I haven’t checked in a long while, so I thought I would do that today.
July 18, 2007
* 1,187 emails received that day
Posts Tagged Spam
Time To Take Out The Trash
It was December 2, 2007 since I’ve emptied the “trash” folder in my Eudora program. I remember vividly, because I blogged about it to remind me!
Since then - 148 days later .. it would seem that I have averaged 129,199/148 =~ 873 spam trashy emails per day. That’s interesting to me, because everytime I check to see how many emails I received in any given day it is well over 1,100 count. That would seem to me that my filter is routing a lot of other garbage all over the place, or I ignore or there really is about 200 emails per day of sitemeter statistics, wordpress messages, spam karma 2 messages, moderation notices and comment tracking. I think I really deal with 50-100 emails a day that I see that requires my attention or a reply back.
Canada Post Advises that Employment Ads in Newspapers are Fraudulent
The following news was released on the Canada News site …
December 20, 2007
Ottawa - Canada Post wishes to advise Canadians that advertisements recently published in various newspapers and on the Internet, offering employment opportunities with the corporation, are fraudulent.
An investigation by Canada Post’s Security and Investigation Services has revealed that these fraudulent ads direct applicants to a “Mystery Shopping Application Form” where unsuspecting individuals are asked to complete the form and provide personal information. The form suggests that the employer is Canada Post and displays Canada Post’s corporate trade-mark logo. It is believed that the advertisements are being used in an attempt to obtain personal information including banking details.
Introducing: My Top SPAM Emails Received in November 2007
Well, surprising .. it’s still the same ‘ole usuals …
#5 ….. CIALIS SPAM - WITH 769 SPAM EMAILS RECEIVED
#4 VIAGRA SPAM - WITH 1537 SPAM EMAILS RECEIVED
My Apologies to the Spammees - spammed with email account “COWHBSMCNID@HBSMC.com
Reposted from HBSMC.com
I just noticed in my email TRASH folder there has been a LOT (I mean hundreds!) of rejected emails coming back from people in VACATION MODE …. I can only assume THOUSANDS or more? have gone through.
They would have the reference email
[some fictitious name] cowhbsmcnid (at) hbsmc (dot) com
I must be doing something right! If only I can figure out what I did right!
Since about mid-September 2006 .. I’ve been slowly trying to figure out ways to reduce the amount of SPAM messages in my Eudora InBox. Back then, I was averaging about 400-500 emails per day in total, and by late November it was closer to 650-750 count .. EVERY DAY.
But, it’s all part of being online I figure .. and it doesn’t really bother me … much! You see, I have spam filters in my Eudora Lite software (SPAMNIX) .. my ISP also has some spam and anti-virus software installed .. and with my hundreds of FILTERS in my email program that I created myself .. I rarely see most of the junk anyway! And, if some spam emails come into my InBox .. I’ll just right click and label it JUNK and my Eudora pretty much takes care of it.
Here’s a nice SPAM TABLE Alert page
Thank-You Eric Dunlap for your Spam Table .. it must have taken a lot of work, but a good reading!
I was wondering if anybody actually calls (270) 818-7244 for a Fake Diploma
Spam Alert .. ‘Tis The Season To Be Spammy .. Fa La La La Laah .. La Lah La Laaah’
I received a phone call from my ISP#1 .. Blacksun.ca over in Saskatchewan .. They host my mega account of the PetLvr.com domain. This account includes many sub-domain and domain aliases .. like this one! This 1800HART.com domain is a domain alias for another sub-domain. I know it gets confusing at times, because I actually host HBSMC.com (my business account) on my other ISP#2 server .. and PetLvr.com/hbsmc/blog/ is the originating source for 1800HART.com/blog/ (I’ve duplicated the root to avoid confusion of the passings of clients to this site.
ANYWAY .. HARTandYVONNE.com is also another domain that is aliased under my account, and in that account I had this pretty cool addalink script that everyone could add their page to my page. Actually, I was also trying to get a link from every country in the world but that never panned out~
Quit “Contact Form Spamming” me FORUMFACTORY. COM
That’s right .. I said “CONTACT FORM SPAM” … not “COMMENT SPAM”
I have no idea why people would try to spam blogs through their contact form.
Basically, if you have a wordpress blog .. you can get the WP - Contact Form Plugin and activate it. Rather than placing your email address anywhere on your blog (for spammers to pick up and spam you) .. there is a neat little form where people can contact you. The information is emailed directly to you by your wordpress blog, and you do not have to worry about giving your email away to the person filling out the contact form - as they will be redirected to a thank-you page.
Personally .. I think all businesses should have some generic email addresses similar to their domain name .. like info@yourdomainurl.com .. or, maybe not as generic as that .. I’d use people’s first names. You can create an unlimited number of email addresses these days .. Why not? Then use alternate means to avoid spam. I use Eudora Lite v.7 and the plugin Spamnix to block my spam .. plus my servers all have their own spam blocking software installed anyway.
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