How to stop domain email spam?

[cache]

this guy [email protected] sent massive email spam. I don't know how to stop him.
Beverly Davis [email protected] is another one. How do you guy stop them?

 

[makebelieve]

You can not completely stop all spam, but you can help to put a big dent in it.

First, try not to open any of them, that only makes them send more and more to you.

Check mark them and click on 'Spam,' this should stop those addresses from being delivered to your inbox.

Use your spam guard and block address.

Look for the 'Options' link at upper right corner of mail screen and click on it

Options /mail options

Click on 'spam' in the list on the left.

Make sure spam guard is on, by checking in the little box.

Then in 'Blocked Email Addresses,' enter the E-mail address you wish blocked, in the box after 'Add a blocked address' and click on the 'add' button, then click on save changes at top left of screen.

You will never get mail from that address again.

This should help you to control your spam.

 

[SlimPickins]

what sort of spam was it? Domain offers or random stuff? I recently received a domain offer from the latter address.... is that how it starts? 8-X

 

[bmugford]

You mean these? They are stupid bulk spam inquiries.
Virtually all of these are for CVCV.com or LLL.com

Hello,

I am interested in purchasing your domain name, XXXXXX.com. Is it available?

Thank You

Gim

or

To whom it may concern,

We are interested in purchasing XXXXXXX.com from you.

If it is available, please let me know your selling price and I will get
back to you.

Thanks.

Best regards,
Beverly Davis

 

[SlimPickins]

yup..... that would be it! And I felt so respected being referred to as "whom"..... at least it indicates my portfolio has finally reached a niveau worth spamming :red: .... not really the club I was aiming to join, but suppose it goes hand in hand. Thanks for posting it Brad! SP

 

[chandan]

you can use filter features in several email providers :gl:

 

[texeyes]

gam spam just emailed me today also acting interested in buying a cvcv.com. what a d-bag.

 

[nielsencl]

If you want to stop some kinds of spam and don't mind spending a little time, you can copy the email header, forward the email, paste in the header at the top of the message.

Then use DomainTools.com or another site to find the ISP that is hosting the domain in the email. Find the "abuse" email contact and put that into the "To:" field. Type in the message that the domain that is being spamvertised is hosted on their IP address.

If you want to cause more problems for the spammer, use the WHOIS information for the domain to find out who the domain registrar is. In the CC field of the email, add "[email protected]" and note in your message that the spammer domain is registered via them. Not all registrars will do anything, but some will verify the spam and then suspend the domain.

Good Luck!

 

[cache]

After many emails to Gim, they said the following even though I still keep receiving emails:

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Hello
Sorry.
There're too many big players owns large portfolio, it's very difficult for me to aviod exactly
Anyway it's my fault, I won't sent you mail
Thank you
Gim
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However, I am unable to stop Beverly Davis at [email protected]

 

[nielsencl]

I would not email the spammer more than once, if that. I think your main options are:

- Create a filter that moves or deletes any email from them.
- Create a filter that looks for some specific text they use in their spam.
- Report them to their service provider/domain registrar.

The last option will not help to stop spam to you, but to everyone else as well. I highly recommend reporting them as being the most effective thing you can do.

If there is any interest in how I report spam to stop people like this, let me know and I can post detailed instructions how to do it.

 

[cache]

This [email protected] had a reply, it is asking the list of domains I own or else she will continue to spam. Quite a way to threaten someone to acquire the list. Why can't she sort the email addresses and send out only one?

I am setting up the spam filters, however there are only limited number of filters I am allowed to set.

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From:
Beverly Davis <[email protected]>

Hi,

My apologies if I am sent emails to you for many times. We have a small handful of domains looking to acquire and some of your domains are some of them. Please let me know what your domains are so that I won't send you again a message.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Beverly

 

[nielsencl]

hearker.com is hosted with Godaddy. Send the emails with headers, to [email protected] and [email protected]. Tell them you have asked to be removed from their lists and they refuse.

I would expect that Godaddy will contact them, but they may also suspend the domain which should get the spammer's attention. It usually does.

Setting up filters is fine. Using a hosted spam solution is fine. But the spammers will find ways to get to you again, and you are only fixing the problem for one person.

If you can take a spammer off-line, you help yourself and thousands or millions of other people as well. SPAM should not be a problem any more, but most people don't fight back and just take it. Heck, many people would start to miss it if they checked their mail and there was no new messages...!

 

[dotker]

ive been getting a lot of spam and scam lately but too busy to pay attention to them but its getting annoying now.

but how do you stop those scam mails from gmails, hotmails, etc...? they are getting annoying im recieving a couple a day now.

 

[cache]

I have contacted my godaddy account manager, he only said: "You can blacklist her email address in your email settings.".

I will try the abuse email. Thanks.

 

[nielsencl]

Once you start getting a lot of spam, there is not much you can do. Spammers share and sell lists all the time. I am still using the first email address I created under my first domain name back in 1999. A few years ago I was getting hundreds of spams a day, and started fighting back. Now I still get a lot of spam, but at least I can still use my email address.

If I was just starting out now, I would do things different. I would get a domain and cheap hosting. Then I would create a LOT of email forwarding addresses and only give those out as I needed to. If one of the addresses starts to get spam, I would know where the spam is coming from and just delete the forward.

My real email address is secret now. I never give it out to anyone, so there is almost no way I know of for anyone to learn what it is. All of my email comes in under forwards, including my old email address that I started with. Someday, I may just delete it also.

If you need to post an email address on a web site it's a little harder, but you can do the same thing and if there starts to get too much spam, you can delete the old one and create a new one.

 

[cache]

another spammer is Francheska Andersen the email is:
[email protected]

 

[SpareDomains]

I use a seperate email for whois so I know anything that comes in from it was from data mining so 99% trash. I use a contact form on all my sites so they don't get my email address. If the whois address ever gets too much spam I can always change it in a few bulk registrar updates as I don't use it for anything else so I wouldn't have to update any accounts.

 

[bmugford]

You mean this -

Hello,

We are interested in purchasing your domain name, XXXX.com. If it's available, please kindly let me know the approximate price. Thanks!

Regards
Francheska

Brad

another spammer is Francheska Andersen the email is:
[email protected]

 

[John Baron]

well , at least its not an appraisal scam emails but people who actually wants to buy names , of course they are bargain hunters but hopefully not scammers

 

[DNK.it]

You mean this -

Hello,

We are interested in purchasing your domain name, XXXX.com. If it's available, please kindly let me know the approximate price. Thanks!

Regards
Francheska

Brad

I've received the same email today...