Spam Spam Spam

Posted by Ian on 26th Aug 2007 at 7:38 pm

2007

26 Aug

Spam, don’t you love it. I just about had it under control in my inbox. My spam filter was tagging most of it and moving it to a spam folder. About 30 a day were being tagged and only 4 or 5 would get through.

This morning my inbox looked like a bomb site. It appears that somebody has been sending spam forged as coming from accounts on my domain. Throughout the day I have received over 450 emails bouncing ‘my’ spam messages from locations all over the world. I’ll have to start making checks now to make sure that I haven’t been blacklisted anywhere.

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4 Responses

jmb Says:
August 27th, 2007 at 3:35 am
I’m sorry, but I can’t help laughing. I can imagine your face when you opened the inbox. However it is a disaster and I hope you know how to deal with it because I sure wouldn’t.
Good luck!
regards
jmb
Ian Says:
August 27th, 2007 at 7:42 am
Yes, my face must have been a picture when the 40 or so first arrived in my inbox. That was nothing to when I found the 400 in the spam folder.
None this morning, so I guess it’s over for the moment.
Regards,
Ian
Lyall Says:
August 28th, 2007 at 8:17 am
I must be doing something right,can’t remember the last time I had spam in my inbox.
Ian Says:
August 28th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Hi Lyall,
It helps if you don’t spread your email address around too much and post it on all sorts of sites on the internet.
I think I’d wonder what was happening if I didn’t get offers of cheap software or medical ‘enhancements’.
Also, where I have my own domain, emails get spoofed from made up accounts on it. I have actually ’spammed myself’ due to this.
Regards,
Ian