Man, what was I thinking!

[hbdragon88]

I was getting tired of spam, so I put my email address in an unsuscribe page...and now I'm getting double the spam. Yesterday I received 65 pieces of email spam and much of it is duplicate spam - same subject titles, but different email addresses. I know it's gotta be linked to trying to unsuscribe because all of the new spam emails have that exact same link. There's not much I can do now, because the spammers know my address is valid. I would use Mailwasher to bounce it back, but Yahoo won't let it go through.

ARRRGGGGHHH!

 

[Achinz]

Yes, unless you know the sender is totally legit it's risky to unsubscribe as it's a ploy to check the currency of the email address.

I'm not sure of the effectiveness of bouncing it back though - just a indication that it got somewhere.

I think the Yahoo spam solution could be improved by a better algorithm and also perhaps by a more frequent flushing of the Bulk folder. With the email notifications coming in from cfc it doesn't take long before your box is full.

 

[Rooker]

Hi hbdragon88

I too was "silly" enough to try the unsubscribe, and also experienced a sudden dramatic increase.

I recommend you using spamfighter, where users all over the world help each other block the spam. I'm using it and while it's not perfect it's really good.

Check it out it's free...

http://www.spamfighter.com

 

[FireBall]

Yep... unless you are 100% sure it is a ligitimate source never unsubscribe from spam... All you're doing is tellign the spammer that someone is recieveing their e-mail... Don't send tham back either, you'll be doing the same thing, which will make them say "hey, there's someone there, lets send that address more spam!"

The Spam Wars are an ongoing battle that isn't about to end... in the meantime, don't give out your e-mail address and hope fore the best...

My current account only gets some spam containing viruses, wish I could block Hotmail, but then I'd never get any e-mail from my friends...

 

[Goober]

Ahh, I have 2 E-mails, a Hotmail which is my Spam free one, and a Yahoo, to which I put on all those "put your E-mail here" forms. My Hotmail is Spam-free, and my Yahoo . . . well . . . I just deleted a couple hundred spam posts . . .

 

[mad-bax]

I do the same as RealGoober. My real e-mail account is spam free, and the dummy account I haven't visited in over a year, so I haven't a clue...

 

[Turner]

Well, my primary used to be spam free. But the Netsky worm has really hit my inbox hard. I do get the odd spam, but the provider is doing better about catching them.

And I only unsub from those that I sub'd to in the first place.

 

[FireBall]

I also get the virus spam.. .the things that say "hi" with an attachment or some-such... Lycos is doing a good job with them and puts most into my Junk Mail Box automatically though...

 

[funxus]

I think I tried unsubscribing once, long time ago, but don't remember what happened. Aren't there to be new laws that force spammers to include a valid unsubscribe button, or else it'll be illegal? Don't know how they're going to enforce it though.

My weirdest spam mail I've ever got was a normal plain text email with only one (seemingly random and innocent) word in it. I think the subject was this word as well, and there were no attachments. The sender's address didn't make any sense as well. I got several of these for a while, all with different words.

 

[FireBall]

Hm... I think that there were a bunch of those... Basically, I think they included a tine 1x1 pixel image that tracked if anyone saw the image or not, which allowed the spammers to see if there was someone recieving their e-mail, and send that person more spam....

Also, most spam is illegal or on the verge of being so, however; few spam laws (if any) are enforced in most parts of the world.

 

[hbdragon88]

YES! REVENGE!

I bought a subscription to Yahoo Mail Plus, which gives me POP access (I can read emails with different email clients, like M2). I'm using Mailwasher and I'm kicking butt on the spam that I get, deleting, blacklisting, and bouncing back every piece of spam.

In just two days of using Mailwasher, my spam has dropped to just a asmall nuisence.

 

[Grisu]

the idea of bouncing the mail back ist generally good but has one major flaw. most spammers use faked sender addresses, so by bouncing the mail you may be hitting the innocent real owners of that address. I know that only too good, because a week ago some spammer was using one of my addresses as the sender address. since then I keep getting dozens of unknown recepient messages for thier mailer deamons

 

[Ballazic]

Spam is stupid.

 

[Evertonian]

the idea of bouncing the mail back ist generally good but has one major flaw. most spammers use faked sender addresses, so by bouncing the mail you may be hitting the innocent real owners of that address. I know that only too good, because a week ago some spammer was using one of my addresses as the sender address. since then I keep getting dozens of unknown recepient messages for thier mailer deamons

If the reply address on spam is not legitimate, how does anybody get in touch with the companies that send it out if by some smal chancethey are actually interested in buying viagra or getting a great deal on a mortgage or whatever it is?

 

[funxus]

If the reply address on spam is not legitimate, how does anybody get in touch with the companies that send it out if by some smal chancethey are actually interested in buying viagra or getting a great deal on a mortgage or whatever it is?

I think a link to a homepage is common. I'll check the next round of spam I'll get.

 

[Ankka]

Spam is stupid.

So simple, so true.

Luckily I have managed to avoid it so far.

 

[Thrawn]

Same here. I'm using hotmail too, and get hardly any spam. Although it pretty much all goes to my junk mail folder, which I've never actually seen get past 50.

 

[WildFire]

I have a webmail account that never gets spam. Of course, I dont post it anywhere either ^_^