I keep getting emails from this idiot peddling rubbish woodworking plans. Any ideas how he's stolen the email address he's spamming?
I block the address and he ends up getting through again and again
I keep getting emails from this idiot peddling rubbish woodworking plans. Any ideas how he's stolen the email address he's spamming?
I block the address and he ends up getting through again and again
i got one of those emails yesterday but so far just the one. i marked it as junk so future emails will be deleted automatically(hopefully).
I'm thinking it's time to fight back. I found a little program that will allow me to hammer their inbox with thousands of emails - each with unique return addresses! I think I'll attach a 2meg file to each one as well.
I've been getting, what I consider, spam emails from him too. Annoying.
Brian, would you care to pass along that "Little Program?"
I've been getting them about once a week for the past month or so. I designated it as junk, blocked the domain & unsubscribed it, but it's like an Everready battery - it just keeps on coming.
I would love to find a way to prevent receiving these emails, but how?
I just got another one today. I'm in for hitting back ! Send me the program if you can Brian.
It mentions Google groups; the only thing I'm aware of that associates me with google and woodworking is Sketchup. I'm guessing that's where they got my email address.
This stuff seems to move in waves. Right now, I'm seeing a lot of those ww plan spams along with Costco and Amazon 'Rewards' nonsense.
I still like Bill Gates solution. Every email costs some miniscule amount of money to send. Say, 1/100th of a cent. The fee is just enough to cover the cost of assessing the fee and exchanging money between ISPs. The fee wouldn't even be noticed by the home user because we would all get 1000 emails a month for free. But the spammers depend on getting one sucker per tens of millions emails. It would cost them thousands to reel in one sucker.
Gates also accounted for legitimate businesses who must send many emails. He made two points:
-- If the email isn't worth 1/100th of a cent to contact you, it isn't worth it.
-- Users would be able to white-list businesses or individuals that would then not be charged.
Please note that my numbers are just for example purposes. The idea would be to find a sweet spot between bankrupting the spammers and causing the average user pain.
The small charge for sending an e-mail doesn't sound bad, but what about all of the proxy e-mails? Would the spam-bot computers get billed too? Might be a way to get everyone to keep their computers cleaned of malware when the owner gets a bill for many more e-mails than they sent.
John
I don't know where he got my email address but at the bottom it tells what you have to do to unsubscribe. I did it last night. I'll let you know if it works.
My recommendation is never to "unsubscribe" from obvious spam. All you're doing is validating your email address. The "unsubscribed" email addresses are then sold as guaranteed valid addresses.
The people who send out that spam have no interest in limiting who they send email out to. And it would cost them some money to cull their address lists of people who have "unsubscribed". Put yourself in their place and think only of your economic interest - Now, what would you do? That's what they'll do.
Mike
[It's okay to unsubscribe from name companies, such as Lands End, Orvis, etc. They will honor your unsubscribe request.]
Since it says you are subscribed to a Google group, I would hope it's not a scam to get email addresses. Google could loose a lot of users if they would allow this to happen.
I wonder how I got "subscribed" to this user group as I never did it myself. I can't help but wonder if Google did it for me?
This was already discussed here: http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthre...nknown-senders
DON'T do that.
Deleted by me.
Myk,
This is the 1st time I ever sent an "unsubscribe" email to any organization other than using the Unsubscribe buttons on businesses like Hilton Inns, Holiday Inn, etc.
The question is how did my email address end up on Google group without my knowledge or consent.
AAs far as I can tell there is no Google group it is just a facade that the spammed uses to make it seem legit.
This ^^^^ all of this ^^^^.
Very little about spam email is valid... the "group" you are supposedly a part of, the privacy notice attached at the bottom, the physical address listed for the business, etc. Two things, and two things only are going to be valid (and not in a good way)... the link to the "product", and the "unsubscribe" link. Click on either and you just set yourself up for a boatload of more spam.
Larry had the honor of being the subject of my first Thunderbird email filter entry. His efforts go straight to 'delete'.
I wouldn't know for sure. But I would guess that you could put an hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly cap on sent emails.
Hmmm... That's not a bad idea. You go into your email account and set the caps and you get an email from your ISP if you hit a cap. That email would have to include some sort of validation involving an image like Captcha to prove that you are human. Generally, hitting a cap would tell you that you have a bot infection and you need to find it. Such a thing would also make it less worthwhile for the guys creating the trojans. If they have to go to a lot of trouble to infect your machine only to get 50 emails out of the deal, they would have to infect a great many machines to generate the millions of emails they need to be successful.
I'll just add to Dan's comment: Sometimes the "unsubscribe" link will take you to a "blackmail" page, where it tells you that your data has been encrypted and if you want to be able to access it again, call this number. They will then ask you for your credit card number - which they will charge for the blackmail, but then they'll sell your credit card info.
Usually, the blackmail web page will be set up so you can't close it - you try to "X" it out and it doesn't work. You try to shut down your browser and you can't. Just power down your computer and when you start it up again, close the web page before it can load again. They haven't encrypted your data.
Mike
[I know people who gave their credit card to these people - they don't give you the code to close out the web page right away - they delay sending it so they can use your card somewhere. I also got a "blackmail" page one time and shut down my computer and all was fine.]
I haven't heard from Larry, so I'm feeling left out:(
Ah, Larry old buddy.... Had one visit, took the appropriate measures, bye bye Larry. :)
Had a couple people ask about the spam program I mentioned. It doesn't work with windows 10 and I'm not sure if the developer is still in operation. For your interest though it was called spamitback.
No need to shut down. In windows just use the Ctl Alt Del keys and select task manager, click on the browser and then on end task. In mac click on the black apple logo in the top left. Select force quit option from the list, click on the browser and click force quit.
To add to that... if you force a shut down on FireFox, the next time you start it you're given the option to selectively enable/disable each of the previously open windows before they all open up. Deselect all of the spam and offending windows, then start as usual.
everyone on this thread getting it has something in common
ron
This is unlikely to do much of anything. The inbox is guaranteed to be set up with a limit I use 10MB on my addresses known to get a lot of junk. Once the 10MB fills up, it simply disposes of all other incoming mail. The guy could have set it to 1kB for all it matters... he is not actually paying attention to any incoming mail.
All you are doing is racking up bandwidth on your own ISP account.
Why encourage him by trying to annoy him? Maybe you need a better email client. What are you using? Are you reporting the trash as spam? What did you get into?
Then what I have done is effective in that if I fill his mailbox with 10megs of garbage, it then starts rejecting all other incoming mail. Scumbag kirk is trying to sell rubbish and the email is the only way to contact him. He's going to have to check it fairly regularly but will find it's full of the same sort of garbage he's selling.
I reordered these quotes a bit for effect. It's not a big deal for most... but if you decide to use this technique on a lot of spammers, your ISP WILL take notice.
No. You've sent 10MB of junk to an account that was never designed to be useful in the first place. That account was likely filled with responses long before you ever got there. It never empties, and no one ever reads what comes into it. You have wasted your time and had zero effect on the spammer.