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Question about spam.........someone must have an opinion or can help direct me....
Like everyone else, I get a lot of Spam on my computer. One that I
got recently had an add for cialis and a message that follows. It looks like a randomly generated sentence. Can anyone tell me why they would do that? Just curious. Any is it possible to track the assess and cause them problems? Thanks BM SPAMMER"S MESSAGE: The day I slipped that weighted belly back on, I felt I was back in uniform. The covers went one way and Inskipp went the other. There was one smart one in the bunch. He had the same somber expression and heavy foot that they all haveand the same lack of humor. I dont enjoy the thought of putting this poor woman in jail, but if it is necessary to the cause it must be done. I actually hummed a bit as I dropped the ship out of warpdrive long enough to slip in a course tape chosen at random from the file. Angelina tricked me and got away, Ill admit that. Following my orders, the navigator again constructed a sphere of speculation in his tank. |
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Question about spam.........someone must have an opinion or can help direct me....
On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:34:11 -0400, Brett Miller
wrote: Can anyone tell me why they would do that? It's called a 'hash buster'. It's one of multiple countermeasures used to get around SPAM filters, by making each and every copy unique. A_C |
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Question about spam.........someone must have an opinion or can help direct me....
On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 18:27:32 -0400, Agent_C wrote:
On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:34:11 -0400, Brett Miller wrote: Can anyone tell me why they would do that? It's called a 'hash buster'. It's one of multiple countermeasures used to get around SPAM filters, by making each and every copy unique. A_C Not necessarily unique, but ordinary enough and without "hot" spam words to tip off the spam filters. Some even go so far as to make the font very small, and the color white so you would not even see it. The ad for Cialis was probably a graphic, which isn't scanned at all. BH |
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Question about spam.........someone must have an opinion or can help direct me....
Not necessarily unique, but ordinary enough and without "hot" spam words to tip off the spam filters. Some even go so far as to make the font very small, and the color white so you would not even see it. The ad for Cialis was probably a graphic, which isn't scanned at all. Thanks. You are exactly right about the graphic. And I have gotten several email with nothing in them. But when I highlighted them to delete them, I could see text - kind of freaked me out and made me thing it was a virus or something. What of this: A lot of the emails have a graphic ad or a listed www site but when I try to go to the site it is dead. Or, the message they send me ( obviously Spam by the name of the sender ) is blank. And how can they send it to me when I have an address like: but in the TO: it has or something not even close to my name? Thanks BM |
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Question about spam.........someone must have an opinion or can help direct me....
I have a somewhat dated .. but nicely effective .. product called Form Fuc*er that I have used in the past to teach the spammers a lesson if they continued to harrass me. I don't know if this is legal anymore, and I DID get a "cease and desist" from a legal beagle for doing it. With my little friend, I placed about 50,000 orders to their web server until the relay servers dropped. I asked ( politely ) if the relay guys would stop "relaying" spam, but seems they think it is funny. Now, I have 3 levels of filtering .... Postini at ISP .. F-secure at work ... and locally either F-secure or McAfee. I get maybe 3 spam emails a week ... those new ones that act like rejected email. I still have FF if anybody wants to play games with me. johns |
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Question about spam.........someone must have an opinion or can help direct me....
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060117/2323246.shtml Don't get yourself in trouble with this thing !! johns |
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ATTN: "johns" [email protected] Question about spam.........someone must have an opinion or can help direct me....
John,
I'd like to play. Can you up the program somewhere? I get about 40 spams per day. On 8 Sep 2006 09:18:18 -0700, "johns" wrote: I have a somewhat dated .. but nicely effective .. product called Form Fuc*er that I have used in the past to teach the spammers a lesson if they continued to harrass me. I don't know if this is legal anymore, and I DID get a "cease and desist" from a legal beagle for doing it. With my little friend, I placed about 50,000 orders to their web server until the relay servers dropped. I asked ( politely ) if the relay guys would stop "relaying" spam, but seems they think it is funny. Now, I have 3 levels of filtering ... Postini at ISP .. F-secure at work ... and locally either F-secure or McAfee. I get maybe 3 spam emails a week ... those new ones that act like rejected email. I still have FF if anybody wants to play games with me. johns |
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ATTN: "johns" [email protected] Question about spam.........someone must have an opinion or can help direct me....
You would be playing with the big boys, and they are not funny. Good way to wind up in a court room. Get a spam filter like McAfee. I think the McAfee filter actually "filters" before it pulls the stuff from the server onto your disk. If your ISP offers Postini, that is also McAfee, and works even better. That would give you 2 levels of filtering, and put a stop to the scumbags. johns |
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