DVD to CD spam

Kenny Forbess · Post by **Kenny Forbess** » 12 Dec 2002 10:38 am

anybody getting the "copy any dvd to cd " spam mail ?
I'm getting 4 or 5 a day.
there is a place to remove your email from the mailing list, which I have done numerous times.
i believe it only opens up a new can of worms tho.
anybody know how to get rid of it for good ?

Thanks,
Kenny
edited for spelling[This message was edited by KENNY FORBESS on 12 December 2002 at 10:40 AM.]

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 12 Dec 2002 2:06 pm

You can go into your e-mail controls (messages) and put a block on the ones you don't want to receive.
Erv

Kenny Forbess · Post by **Kenny Forbess** » 12 Dec 2002 2:24 pm

Erv, only problem with that is , they all have a different sender name!
I can't recall if any of them are repeated, i'll keep an eye on them, if so, i'll pick them off,one at a time.
Thanks,
Kenny

Peter · Post by **Peter** » 13 Dec 2002 10:59 am

E-mail spamming has become a huge problem. ZDNet News reports that unsolicited bulk e-mail made up 36% of all e-mail traveling over the Internet, up from 8% about a year ago.

The following steps may help you understand what preventative measures can be taken to avoid being discovered and added to junk email lists:

Never respond to unsolicited email/spam. To the individuals who send spam, one "hit" among thousands of mailings is enough to justify the practice.
Never respond to the spam email's instructions to reply with the word "remove". This is a ploy to get you to react to the email and alerts the sender that a human is at your email address, which greatly increases its value. If you reply, your address may be placed on more lists resulting in more spam. Please forward this e-mail to your ISP and they should block it on their mail server.
Never sign up with sites that promise to remove your name from spam lists. Although some of these sites may be legitimate, more often than not, they are address collectors. The legitimate sites are ignored (or exploited) by the spammers; the address collection sites are owned by them. In both cases, your address is recorded and valued more highly because you have just identified it as read by a human.
Avoid displaying your email address in public places. This makes it harder for spammers to run programs or bots to gather email addresses.

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Kenny Forbess · Post by **Kenny Forbess** » 13 Dec 2002 6:52 pm

Thanks Peter, like I said before, I think i've opened a new can of worms.
You have explained the situation I have, and I was a bit leary of the "REMOVE", because the only way you could do it was to enter your e-mail address,,,,, and I DID,,DOHHH !!

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Al Marcus · Post by **Al Marcus** » 15 Dec 2002 8:37 pm

Pete is right-That's a No No.....al

Kenny Forbess · Post by **Kenny Forbess** » 15 Dec 2002 9:09 pm

You are absolutely right ole pal Al,
but the strange thing is,
i haven't recieved on since I posted this ???
Thanks guy's for the guidance and info.

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Mark Ardito · Post by **Mark Ardito** » 16 Dec 2002 8:35 am

Kenny,

Spam is a HUGE problem in corporate systems. Imagine this situation: The CEO of the company I work for is very conservitive and he gets TONS of porn spam plus all the other DVD stuff or World's largest online casino. Now, put yourself in my shoes as System Administrator. It is a bad situation. We spend lots of money on filter applications for our email server. The funniest one was this: A employee clicked on the porn spam message and it actually changed the icon's on his desktop to some very Hmm Hmm, funny body parts. It also changed his desktop to a picture of Hmm Hmm adult content. He was scared to death when he called me to fix the problem!

I hate spam more than anything, do people in marketing really believe that I am going to buy/subscribe to something that I receive via a spam email? It is just like telemarketers. I will NEVER buy anything from a telemarketer.

Just my $.02

Mark

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Leroy Riggs · Post by **Leroy Riggs** » 17 Dec 2002 5:36 pm

Kenny, go into the email and find something that will be the same every time--perhaps an 800 number. Then, in the mail rules, there will be an option that looks for 'content' of the email instead of a name (which does change a lot, usually by an appended number that is added to the name).

Type in the text you found inside the spam that doesn't change and reject it based on that embedded word or words.

The word REMOVE that you mentioned is a good word to use but phone numbers are better.

Kenny Forbess · Post by **Kenny Forbess** » 19 Dec 2002 6:11 am

Thanks Leroy,
I'll check that out.
It's really strange that I haven't recieved any of this mail since I posted it on the Forum ??
I'm happy with it.

Kenny