What do you guys do about SPAM!

[ben51959]

Hello,

I never really had much of a problem with email spam, but recently I have been recieving about 2-10 emails per minute in an email account that I need. I was wondering what you guys do to keep spam out but still recieve what you need.

This email address was havested from a form, which I have taken down. All the spam is from those "hot stock tip" jerks, mostly coming from yahoo accounts.

I don't get it, they think if they send me 10 emails a minute I'm going to go ahead and invest in the stock? Yeah... that's a sign of quality!

I believe there is a special place in hell for all those spammers out there!

Thanks!

 

[yeppers]

Hey Ben,

What service are you with?

I've got many, but my main one is with hotmail, and I NEVER receieve any spam at all on the account, which I find damn amazing lol.

 

[LeetPCUser]

Sometimes at the bottom of spam there is a link to remove yourself from the list. Sometimes they are tricky and don't like it, but it is there. Otherwise I would try and email the person that sent you the email and be asked to be removed from their list. If this doesn't work there is usually a way to block the sender. If this once again doesn't work I would contact your email provider.

 

[ben51959]

There is no opting out on these messages, and the sender is always from a random account on yahoo.

I am my own email provider, I run my sites off a linux server w/plesk 7.5 You would think I would know more about this, haha.

I once emailed someone, and I got an auto reply with instructions on how to prove I wasn't a bot... It was simple, just clicking on the right link... and once I did it one time I never had to do it again. Does anyone know what program/script this is?

 

[Jim_]

Send a complaint to yahoo and temporarily filter all emails from *@yahoo.com to a spam folder.

 

[LeetPCUser]

Jim has a point. That should work. The problem is if anyone is seriously emailing you from a yahoo account you will not recieve them...

 

[B33R]

I'd just remove that email address and update my info with whichever sites have that email.

I've had to do that many times, it may take a while but it's better than trying to find good emails amongst hundreds of spam emails.

Chances are if your email address is already being spammed, your address is on it's way to another few thousand spammers. Blocking Yahoo email addresses may stop some spam but it'll probably be useless after a few days/weeks when the spammers have shared your email address amongst themselves.

Otherwise try a spam blocker, your host may provide one. Spam blockers won't stop every spam email though.
It's easier just to switch email addresses and give everyone your new email address.

 

[LeetPCUser]

Do spam blockers actually work. I have used them in the past and they have blocked real incoming mail from people I know. If they do, which would you recommend? Interested...

 

[gchick]

heh...i just delete them on my inbox....i guess im too busy configuring and filtering my email from those spams

 

[2Cunning]

i get a fair amount of spam, of which 40% of it seems to be trying to sell me replica watches, i get around 2/3 a day starts to get annoying as they use headings to make it unable to catch them automatically, the other 60% is just the bog standard sex/viagra emails, i just put up with it tbh

 

[weblord]

just change your email or unsubscribe from all of them one by one or just filter it out all those not added will go to trash so you just do bulk delete. what i did with mine on nabaza.com is banned all domains: yahoo.com, hotmail.com, msn.com and yeah 163.com as well.

 

[labrocca]

Run better server side protection. Also add spamassassin as well.

However consider getting a new email address if you really want to be free of the spam. Once they have your email addy it's as good as screwed.

Run better server side protection. Also add spamassassin as well.

However consider getting a new email address if you really want to be free of the spam. Once they have your email addy it's as good as screwed.

 

[ZuraX]

Sometimes at the bottom of spam there is a link to remove yourself from the list. Sometimes they are tricky and don't like it, but it is there. Otherwise I would try and email the person that sent you the email and be asked to be removed from their list. If this doesn't work there is usually a way to block the sender. If this once again doesn't work I would contact your email provider.

Bad advice. If you never asked to recieve the email then NEVER click a "remove me" link. All you will do is prove that the email is going to a real person and then the spammer can sell your email address to other spammers.

Best way to handle spam is to report it with www.spamcop.net and get hosting at a host that has very good spam blockers. I have a VPS and use blocklists and get very few spams now.

I once emailed someone, and I got an auto reply with instructions on how to prove I wasn't a bot... It was simple, just clicking on the right link... and once I did it one time I never had to do it again. Does anyone know what program/script this is?

Thats a C/R (challenge-response) and it is a bad idea. See: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/challenge-response.html

Also if you use C/R and you challenge a spam by sending off an email to the spoofed From: address you can be reported for spam.
SpamCop www.spamcop.net now allows people to send spam reports for C/R's to the persons ISP/Host.
http://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/329.html#CR

 

[Chris]

Have you tried the SpamArrest service yet? I tried them out awhile back and it was a very nice service and got the job done filtering out the spammers.

http://www.spamarrest.com

The addresses not on your authorized list receive an automated email with a link to visit. Once they visit the link then they need to type the verification word for the email to get through to you. Most spammers don't use valid email addresses or won't take the time to do the verification process so the spammers will go to the "Unverified" folder which you can view later if you'd like but don't have to...

But the people or websites you've added to your authorized list can email you normally and won't receive any verification emails.

 

[ben51959]

ZuraX, thanks for the info on the C/R!

About 12 hours after taking the form down off the page I am now recieving zero spam on that address. Not sure what that means, because you would think that if it was because of the form I would have stopped getting it immediately.

Anyways, I'm currently building a better email form.

Thanks!

 

[ZuraX]

Chris that is C/R and can get YOU reported for spamming.
What if a spammer was using your email address in the From: field and sent 1 million spams out and just 50,000 used SpamArrest? YOU would recieve 50,000 emails from SpamArrest asking you to confirm....