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
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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
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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).
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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.
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I've been getting, what I consider, spam emails from him too. Annoying.
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Brian, would you care to pass along that "Little Program?"
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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?
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I just got another one today. I'm in for hitting back ! Send me the program if you can Brian.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
Ken
So much to learn, so little time.....
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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.Originally Posted by Ken Fitzgerald
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.]
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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?
Ken
So much to learn, so little time.....
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This was already discussed here: http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthre...nknown-senders
DON'T do that.
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Last edited by Malcolm Schweizer; 03-20-2016 at 3:58 PM.
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