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03/24/2005 03:39:28 AM · #26 |
Originally posted by coolhar:
Originally posted by jab119:
... Bu if they insist get a hotmail account and give that out as your junk address ... |
Having a throw away e-mail addy, or several of them, is a necessity. But hotmail isn't the best place to get one. I used to use hotmail, had about half a dozen e-mail accounts. One time I opened a new one but didn't use it right away. Came back to it a week later and found over 50 spams. I think hotmail sells random access to it's e-mail accounts. |
Hotmail is just popular enough for most of the relatively short email addresses to be taken. It's an easy matter to send the same address to every combination (or just a few thousand at a time) of address@hotmail.com with 20 letters or less. Those that don't bounce are valid and can be compiled into lists to sell as desired. The same is true for AOL and other large ISPs.
As mentioned, chain letters are a popular way to get valid addresses from less populated servers.
The best way to keep the random spam down (as opposed to that which is asked for in some way) is to get your own domain.
David
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03/24/2005 04:30:55 AM · #27 |
Originally posted by Britannica:
Originally posted by coolhar:
Originally posted by jab119:
... Bu if they insist get a hotmail account and give that out as your junk address ... |
Having a throw away e-mail addy, or several of them, is a necessity. But hotmail isn't the best place to get one. I used to use hotmail, had about half a dozen e-mail accounts. One time I opened a new one but didn't use it right away. Came back to it a week later and found over 50 spams. I think hotmail sells random access to it's e-mail accounts. |
Hotmail is just popular enough for most of the relatively short email addresses to be taken. It's an easy matter to send the same address to every combination (or just a few thousand at a time) of address@hotmail.com with 20 letters or less. Those that don't bounce are valid and can be compiled into lists to sell as desired. The same is true for AOL and other large ISPs.
As mentioned, chain letters are a popular way to get valid addresses from less populated servers.
The best way to keep the random spam down (as opposed to that which is asked for in some way) is to get your own domain.
David |
Hotmail should be avoided for use with any other service that you hold any value to. This is due to the fact that hotmail accounts expire in a short space of time. Imagine if you have used your hotmail account rather than your main email account (because of the risk of spam) to sign up to a service, you don't use your hotmail account for 60 (90?) days and your hotmail account is gone, someone sees your hotmail address in your profile and tries to register it with hotmail, as it has expired they now have the address, then then go to the service you are using and utilise the 'lost password' facilty to get your password sent the the hotmail account that they now own.
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03/24/2005 05:45:09 AM · #28 |
I use my own domain - jamester.net, and have done for the past 5 years or so now. Not sure about less spam....
Statistics from 2004-08-31 17:54:48 to 2005-03-24 10:33:02 (204.7 days)
/var/log/exim/exim_mainlog parsed in 0.042 seconds (271 lines)
Total messages : 20840
Clean : 6139
Spam : 14701
Spam percentage : 70.5%
Best advice is to use something like Spamassassin which reduces it to just a couple a day. Interestingly the paypal email got through fine, presumably because they'd so carefully created it to look genuine, aside from the spoofed URL.
If in doubt - DON'T CLICK IT!!!
Jamie
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03/24/2005 07:21:34 AM · #29 |
| I get those bogus emails from ebay all the time. All I have to do is go browsing on ebay and voila, I get a fake email. I immediately turn them in to spoof@ebay.com. |
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03/24/2005 07:31:34 AM · #30 |
Originally posted by rex07734:
Never click a link in any e-mail |
If you remember nothing else, remember this.
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03/24/2005 05:04:14 PM · #31 |
I get these PayPal emails all the time.
I got one on my Google Gmail account and Google warns you it may not be from PayPal.
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Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal information.
It happens with Citibank a lot also. Can not blame PayPal for.
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03/24/2005 05:16:37 PM · #32 |
Originally posted by rex07734:
Never click a link in any e-mail |
I'll join lenkphotos in backing this advice.
Originally posted by nsbca7:
They have revolving or evolving IP addresses so it does no good to contact Paypal about this. Paypal is quite aware of the problem. |
The most recent phishing spams I've encountered have actually had the website shut down before I get chance to view them (for research purposes), so I think it is worth reporting them if it's inconvenient.
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03/24/2005 05:16:40 PM · #33 |
Originally posted by Jamester:
I use my own domain - jamester.net, and have done for the past 5 years or so now. Not sure about less spam....
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What I do with my domain, which allows me unlimited aliases, is create a new address for everything I sign up for. All of the aliases forward to my main account. For instance, my address here is dpc@hyperbolical.org. This does two things - it lets me know who is selling my address to other people (or what websites spammers are grabbing my address from) and it means that when I start getting spam from that address, I can simply shut it down without having to completely redo all of my email addresses everywhere and with everyone. I've been doing this for a number of years now and I very, very rarely receive spam. |
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03/24/2005 07:07:48 PM · #34 |
Originally posted by mk:
Originally posted by Jamester:
I use my own domain - jamester.net, and have done for the past 5 years or so now. Not sure about less spam....
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What I do with my domain, which allows me unlimited aliases, is create a new address for everything I sign up for. All of the aliases forward to my main account. For instance, my address here is dpc@hyperbolical.org. This does two things - it lets me know who is selling my address to other people (or what websites spammers are grabbing my address from) and it means that when I start getting spam from that address, I can simply shut it down without having to completely redo all of my email addresses everywhere and with everyone. I've been doing this for a number of years now and I very, very rarely receive spam. |
great advise. I never thought of doing that. I do have email addres for my main stuff (family and fiends) one for photography, and one for astronomy stuff. I was getting a lot of spam in my astronomy address and had to change it, but I had to change it in like 5 places.
so I may still use the above address, but create an alias address for each forum / web site to get a better understanding of what junk is comming from where
James |
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