How to stop spam?
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Sander Rossel wrote:
How can I find out where they come from and how can I stop them, if this is at all possible?
I have an email for registering things. I've found that the biggest place that SPAM comes from is a DOMAIN registration. Do you have a web domain registered somewhere? Check and see if the admin email address is the same as the one you are getting the spam at.
raddevus wrote:
I've found that the biggest place that SPAM comes from is a DOMAIN registration.
Blame yourself if you chose GoDaddy just because it's (you're) cheap... ;P
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I would be curious what the domain was for your spam you are talking about. I've gotten to the point where I can recognize a "NameCheap.com" spam without even doing a Whois on it. Did it come from a .info, .xyz, .pw domain for example? You need to 100% block ALL of those - permanently. They are 100% spam.
Haven't checked, I just had one from .us. I don't doubt that it is spam, even without looking at the domain. It gets in my spam folder, but I really just don't want it at all.
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Get a new email address. That's the only proactive way to stop spam. Everything else is reactive and has to learn what spam is before it can filter it out.
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Dave KreskowiakThe solution of last resort, IMO. You're seriously inconveniencing all your contacts more than anything else. And it's not much of a long-term solution either - the reality is, you don't have to give out a new email address to *anyone* for the spammers to start sending junk to it. It'll be discovered sooner or later, and then they all start sharing the address with their buddies. I've registered accounts with variations of my name on a few of the more popular free email systems, and I can guarantee some of these have *never* been shared with anyone. That includes systems that have been put together by people who (you'd think) have a pretty good grip by now on how to handle spam (Gmail and Outlook among others). Yet spam still makes it in. That means there'd be plenty more coming in on systems that aren't as good at identifying spam.
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Sander Rossel wrote:
How can I find out where they come from and how can I stop them, if this is at all possible?
I have an email for registering things. I've found that the biggest place that SPAM comes from is a DOMAIN registration. Do you have a web domain registered somewhere? Check and see if the admin email address is the same as the one you are getting the spam at.
Yes I do, multiple. That could very well be the source, but that information is public I think (which I think is criminal and the complete opposite of GDPR). I should look into that. It's like when I registered my company at the CoC and it turned out that they do not only display my data in public, but also sell it. I've been getting daily to weekly phone calls about gas and electricity since then and it's mandatory by law X| Luckily the CoC is not allowed to do that anymore, but all these companies still have my number, got five phone calls this week alone :mad:
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If you send me your credit card number, expiration date and CVC code, I'll make sure they stop right away... I promise! :-\
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Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark TwainThanks, please reply to imnotanidjit@gmail.com and I'll give you the requested information. You may need the login to my email as well so you can look at the spam messages. Do you think you need my bank credentials as well, just in case? You can also send me any applications that I can run to clean my computer :D
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Yep! My work email address gets spam and the only place that address has ever been used is on some vendor websites. So, at least one of them has been selling their customer/address list.
Asking questions is a skill CodeProject Forum Guidelines Google: C# How to debug code Seriously, go read these articles.
Dave KreskowiakSue them all, just in case :D
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Yes I do, multiple. That could very well be the source, but that information is public I think (which I think is criminal and the complete opposite of GDPR). I should look into that. It's like when I registered my company at the CoC and it turned out that they do not only display my data in public, but also sell it. I've been getting daily to weekly phone calls about gas and electricity since then and it's mandatory by law X| Luckily the CoC is not allowed to do that anymore, but all these companies still have my number, got five phone calls this week alone :mad:
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There was a point where one of my registered domains had my _main_ email address and I was getting 5 spam email a day. Then I changed the domain registration to my _dumping-ground-email-address_ and the spam started going to the dumping ground the next day. Instantly cleaned up the problem on my _main_ email.
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raddevus wrote:
I've found that the biggest place that SPAM comes from is a DOMAIN registration.
Blame yourself if you chose GoDaddy just because it's (you're) cheap... ;P
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain -
Haven't checked, I just had one from .us. I don't doubt that it is spam, even without looking at the domain. It gets in my spam folder, but I really just don't want it at all.
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Oh oh oh oh!!!! Please do a whois lookup on that .us domain. Or just give me the full domain name I will do it. PLEASE I want to hear.
V683V6PKG.us, no data / failed to get data. This is the first time I looked at the domain name. Tomorrow I'll probably get it again, but with another generated code.
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I know, don't give out my email address to strangers. But apparently, I'm past that point. Fact is, since about two months I receive daily spam messages. "H i m y n a m e i s C h r i s t o p h e r" "Sander Rossel, your bol.com gift card is ready!" (I get this one daily, from [probably randomly generated]@[same randomly generated].us) "Petlove - [Spanish(?)]" How can I find out where they come from and how can I stop them, if this is at all possible? These mails have "unsubscribe?" links, which I'm obviously not going to click :sigh:
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V683V6PKG.us, no data / failed to get data. This is the first time I looked at the domain name. Tomorrow I'll probably get it again, but with another generated code.
Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly
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I know, don't give out my email address to strangers. But apparently, I'm past that point. Fact is, since about two months I receive daily spam messages. "H i m y n a m e i s C h r i s t o p h e r" "Sander Rossel, your bol.com gift card is ready!" (I get this one daily, from [probably randomly generated]@[same randomly generated].us) "Petlove - [Spanish(?)]" How can I find out where they come from and how can I stop them, if this is at all possible? These mails have "unsubscribe?" links, which I'm obviously not going to click :sigh:
Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly
Is it a gmail address? My gmail does a really good job of blocking spams. But no, I don't know that there is much you can do.
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Is it a gmail address? My gmail does a really good job of blocking spams. But no, I don't know that there is much you can do.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other. Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
Yes, it's GMail. It probably blocks a lot more than I'm getting, but for some reason a couple slip by the filter almost daily since the last one or two months.
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Thanks for posting that. I'll bet if you look deeper at the headers you will find the TLD that points to Namecheap.com as the registrar. I've been fighting this war with them for 10 years now. I will bet my left nut it's Namecheap.
I already deleted the email. I'll keep an eye on it when I get new ones.
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There was a point where one of my registered domains had my _main_ email address and I was getting 5 spam email a day. Then I changed the domain registration to my _dumping-ground-email-address_ and the spam started going to the dumping ground the next day. Instantly cleaned up the problem on my _main_ email.
Thanks, I'll try that!
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Yes, it's GMail. It probably blocks a lot more than I'm getting, but for some reason a couple slip by the filter almost daily since the last one or two months.
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These are just a few of the top level domains that are 100% pure garbage because of namecheap. Any traffic to my networks from ANY of these results in an instant firewall rule blocking their IP addresses. There are much more, these are just the worst offenders. *@*.info *@*.top *@*.at *@*.science *@*.link *@*.xyz *@*.click *@*.pro *@*.download *@*.date *@*.design *@*.stream *@*.gdn *@*.men *@*.win *@*.ke *@*.club *@*.ar *@*.bid *@*.trade *@*.loan *@*.host *@*.icu *@*.cc *@*.vip *@*.us *@*.pw *@*.ooo *@*.site
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I know, don't give out my email address to strangers. But apparently, I'm past that point. Fact is, since about two months I receive daily spam messages. "H i m y n a m e i s C h r i s t o p h e r" "Sander Rossel, your bol.com gift card is ready!" (I get this one daily, from [probably randomly generated]@[same randomly generated].us) "Petlove - [Spanish(?)]" How can I find out where they come from and how can I stop them, if this is at all possible? These mails have "unsubscribe?" links, which I'm obviously not going to click :sigh:
Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly
My solution to low spam, more than anything else, relies upon using email forwards and a catch-all within that domain. Some of the forwards are "permanent" - I actually enter them, often enough to send the same email to more than one place to make sure I get it on the sooner-side. It's the catch-all that works with the spam-killing. Every single place I do business with, when they ask for an email address, gets one with their name tied to it. For example, assuming a catch-all forward for the domain SnotRag.org, if I do business with amazon then I use amazon@snotrag.org; if I do business with you, it's Sander_Rossel@SnotRag.org, &etc. Since it's a catch-all address, all email that's not forwarded specifically (as per paragraph two) automatically work. Nothing for me to do but wait for email at my specified box. If I start getting SPAM, I know just who sold me out: they have their signature on it. Now - how to stop them? I made an SMTP mailer (mentioned previously at CP) that can be told to send email in a loop - as many as I want. 100? 1000? Just the click of a button. Moreover, I can tell it to spoof the return address with extension from primary domains (like .gmail.com, hotmail.com, etc.) - and generate the first chars randomly. Also, another option is to add some extra random text to the subject and body so as to slow down identification by spam filters. I might sent the first request they stop (directly to them) with a real return address and somewhat polite body. If that doesn't work, I'll ask them 100 times - and if that doesn't work . . . . bombs away! Those who sold me out get a kick-in-the-ass, as well, with a pointy-toed-shoe. Some Pakistani sites took a serious beating (address from page scraping) and now they don't. A few hundred emails, several times a day, into their business box, and they understand that SPAM is not nice. In one case, a rather "unpleasant" graphic was embedded for their viewing pleasure (as a link). My sympathy for them, touting their line of Nazi paraphernalia (newly produced) is, let's just say, below none. So, :elephant: them - often and with vigor - and they'll figure it out.
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I know, don't give out my email address to strangers. But apparently, I'm past that point. Fact is, since about two months I receive daily spam messages. "H i m y n a m e i s C h r i s t o p h e r" "Sander Rossel, your bol.com gift card is ready!" (I get this one daily, from [probably randomly generated]@[same randomly generated].us) "Petlove - [Spanish(?)]" How can I find out where they come from and how can I stop them, if this is at all possible? These mails have "unsubscribe?" links, which I'm obviously not going to click :sigh:
Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly
The only solution for stopping spam is to stop using computers, phones, or anything that receives and sends emails. Your email address is bought and sold on the internet every day between companies and marketing companies legit/non-legit. You can never stop someone from sending you spam.
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These are just a few of the top level domains that are 100% pure garbage because of namecheap. Any traffic to my networks from ANY of these results in an instant firewall rule blocking their IP addresses. There are much more, these are just the worst offenders. *@*.info *@*.top *@*.at *@*.science *@*.link *@*.xyz *@*.click *@*.pro *@*.download *@*.date *@*.design *@*.stream *@*.gdn *@*.men *@*.win *@*.ke *@*.club *@*.ar *@*.bid *@*.trade *@*.loan *@*.host *@*.icu *@*.cc *@*.vip *@*.us *@*.pw *@*.ooo *@*.site
Why do those even exist :doh: Like any legitimate business would use any of those. Except .cc (Creative Commons) and apparently top-level domain for Cocos Islands near Australia?. And .at is just .Austria, we have plenty .nl in the Netherlands so I'm guessing Austria has plenty. at. And same for .us, although I imagine they'd mostly be using .com. But especially .loan, .trade, .bid, .download, .click and .xyz are just inviting spammers.
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