Excessive Chinese / Asian Spam Emails

[RicoShay]

Anyone else getting spammed like crazy with emails that appear to be in Chinese / Oriental language (sorry I can't tell exactly which language it is, but looks like Chinese).

I'm only getting them on my domain-related email accounts; over 100 a day on each one. They all contain some random English words inside, most notably "domains". And they all have attachments (not going to open any).

I have a feeling I'm being intentionally targeted (may other domainers too). I think my inbox is being flooded so that I miss important renewal emails from registrars? I don't know, might be something else?!

Anyway, does anyone have any ideas on how best to stop / reduce these?

The emails are at my own domain and not gmail or any such providers. So if there is anything I can do using cPanel or any desktop mail clients, that would be great.

 

[Bannen]

I've been getting a lot of these, suddenly, the last few weeks also. Annoying. Would love to block the senders' addresses in my yahoo email options... but they all come from different and terrible email addies like xhwgnhgghetinddoj[at]jahgoandgod.com, obviously random awful domains regged just so they can set up spam email accounts from them. And they literally use dozens or hundreds of different such email accounts so I can't just block one or two to solve the prob.
If anyone has suggestions, I'm all ears too

 

[alien51]

In my CPanel, there is a "User Level Filtering" function under the Mail section. You can set to auto-delete, move to folder, etc.

If your email address has been trashed, then just create a new one and update your whois data with this new email add.

If you do not use whois privacy, then your email address is susceptible to getting captured into any spammers' mailing list.

What i do in such case is create a "disposable" email account that FORWARDS to my real private email address. I have more than 400 domains and all of them forward to my single private email add. My whois registrant info uses disposable email address. If you trash it, i can change it to a new one with the same forwarder settings in just 5 minutes.

For my business email where i can be directly contacted by buyers, they are all in JPEG format displayed on the frontpage website.

 

[Eric Lyon]

Some email providers offer a "Language Blocking Filter", You may want to check with whom your email accounts through, or if you run your own email pop server, maybe look into a few filtered alternatives to use / add.

Examples:
If you use Outlook you can block languages like this: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/o...ssages-you-see-HA102749438.aspx#_Toc304379669

Creating a filter for Gmail: http://www.labnol.org/internet/gmail-language-filter-reduces-spam/

Yahoo doesn't block a whole language but you can set it to block certain words in other languages as a trigger, check step #5 here: http://www.wikihow.com/Block-Spam-on-Yahoo!-Mail

In conclusion:
There's lots of different email providers and software's out there, just do a google search for "Block email Language Filter" and it should get you headed in the right direction. Granted, blocking some languages may not be a solution for those of you that are bi-lingual and accustomed to receiving emails in some of the dominant spam flood language types. however, it is a viable option for those that normally never do business in other languages.

Not sure if any of that helps or not but figured I would toss it out there,

Eric Lyon

 

[RicoShay]

Thanks for the suggestions, I will try setting up some filters on languages and see how it goes.