Weird E-Mail Messages

fairytooth

Ditto ... I think we-re all doomed to die by spam and junk mail ...

taxi97w

shown73 wrote:

I've had two official looking e-mails lately asking, indeed insisting, that I click on a link to update my Alliance and Leicester account details. Would have reported them, but to whom? I'm with ntl also, if that helps.
Hard to believe that anyone would be that gullible, but they are very well done, and it's easy just to click on a link on the spur of the moment. I use incredimail, and have little spam trouble normally, unlike AOL, where I used to have masses of it.

[email="reportphishing@antiphishing.org"]reportphishing@antiphishing.org[/email]

taxi97w

jeannieb3 wrote:

I have been getting these weird emails also during the past few days, sometimes up to 4 a day. I'm a complete novice with IT and after reading this thread went into Outlook Express then "my messages" then "delete" and "block." Will this work? I expect I may find out within the next 24 hours.

Did try the "Help" section first but it looked far too complicated for me.

Most of these spamers alter the sender address everytime they send a new mail.
You'll still get the message but it will look like it's from someone else.

symy@nufc

im getting them aswell im sick of them! could be from the freebies we've sent for? who know! only the fools that are sending them

charlieheard

I'm afraid that blocking email addresses is fairly useless, as they will spoof addresses willy-nilly. Try using your own spamfilter which looks at the contents of the message and assesses whether the mail is Ham or Spam.

I use a free one called Popfile. You'll need to train it what you think is good or bad, but it will soon (30-80 emails) pick up your preferences and start filtering accurately. Nothing will get it right all the time, so you'll have to check your spam box occasionally for proper emails, and the occasional spam will slip through - but less than 2%.

These new emails have caused a hiccup as it comes to terms with new attacks, but it soon settles down again after the first few.

Colcoops

I didn't get any yesterday. Hopefully NTL have sorted it out for their users.

MickKnipfler

I've had a couple this morning. What are they trying to achieve?

MickKnipfler

I got one this morning dated tomorrow????

Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 03:20:51 -0700

MickKnipfler

I trust that you're all still getting these too?

I've started gettinf them from e2save@greystonetelecom.co.uk now bad english and dodgy looking attachments

pizzaboy

im with telewest and i have had all of the above too,i use http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/ and label them all as junk and it gets rid b4 i read them now then just clear out deleted folder