PHISHING

[frank_f15]

i NEVER DO click on the links. i usually just delete them. but it sure is frustrating.

 

[Moon]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( As to the question posted previously asking how to "bounce" my email program has "bounce" as a built in feature )</font>

Hey Bob,
What email program are you using? That would be a handy feature to have.

Thanks
Moon

 

[Henro]

I think I saw an example here recently...

Someone reported their solution to water condensing in their loader valve was adding anti-freeze to their hydraulic fluid!

I assume that poster was phishing... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif ... so to speak...

Have to get back to that thread and see what else evolves... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[btolle]

Please don't bounce spam. It creates an unnecessary load on the Internet and never does any good. The return address is "spoofed" (false) anyway so the spammer never see it.

NEVER click on a link in a phishing email. As someone has already said, the scammer may have your email tied to a serial number to identify you.

Don't bother to fill out the forms with bogus information. The spammers are used to that and are such jerks they are not offended by name calling and so forth.

The only way we will ever slow the spam down is to NEVER buy anything from a spam email no matter how attractive a price is.

The reason spammers are still in existence is that they are making money from those who click on the links and buy from them! They don't care if they only get 1 sale for every 100,000 emails they send out. They send out millions for little more than they can send out one so it pays off.

Unfortunately, there are still morons who buy from spammers so we will continue to get spam for a long time to come.

If you think you have it bad, my server provider complained the other day because I was getting over 23,000 emails a day. Only 12 to 15 were legitimate. I do a lot of filtering and only 5 or 6 a day get past my filters.

Bill Tolle

 

[Bob_Skurka]

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( As to the question posted previously asking how to "bounce" my email program has "bounce" as a built in feature )

Hey Bob,
What email program are you using? That would be a handy feature to have.

Thanks
Moon </font>

Moon . . . I use "MAIL" from Apple. I was using MS OUTLOOK (the full blown version not the Express version) but it was too vulnerable to attacks so I switched.


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Please don't bounce spam. It creates an unnecessary load on the Internet and never does any good. The return address is "spoofed" (false) anyway so the spammer never see it.
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As I outlined before, many of the return address are NOT spoofed and bouncing can be very effective under those circumstances. I would say that less than 30% of the emails I bounce have "spoofed" addresses because when they do, then I get them back! The % of returns is fairly low, and my spam mails (which used to average 100+ a day, nothing like your 23,000!!!) average only a few a week now. I don't even need to filter my email anymore!!!

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NEVER click on a link in a phishing email. As someone has already said, the scammer may have your email tied to a serial number to identify you. </font>

I'm not sure about the serial # part, but basically this is very sound advice and company policy at our office.

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The only way we will ever slow the spam down is to NEVER buy anything from a spam email no matter how attractive a price is. </font>
Probably the BEST advice I've ever read about spam. But unfortunately some people succomb to greed and that is why the Nigerian letters still persist. Others can't pass up that "LOW MORTGAGE RATE" and fall for those spams, which are actually legitimate businesses using spam to generate leads. And still others want to see "Paris Hilton Naked" and again, those are businesses that are trying to attact folks to their sites.

 

[Moon]

Thanks Bob! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[frank_f15]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Someone reported their solution to water condensing in their loader valve was adding anti-freeze to their hydraulic fluid!
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PLEASE tell me you are joking /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Henro]

Frank, no I am serious...

And the psoter sounded serious too. I will add a link to that thread if I come across it again... /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif