spam help please

superscaper

Moneymaker wrote:

As regards bouncing, the spam sender will *never* use his own "reply" address. It will invariably be some poor innocent's address (so you are effectively spamming them) or else a false address which will bounce your bounce right back again. Either way, it achieves nothing.

See http://www.!!!!!!.uk/spam.htm

Strangely enough for the first time I started receiving loads of failed delivery messages this morning. The spammers obviously using my domain name in their from field. So I'm one of those innocent people who gets it bounced back to and it's actually worse than spam because it's harder for filters to pick up. I've fixed it now by blocking all email that isn't going to a predefined list of legitimate addesses on my domain (it's a list of 300 so took me a while to put it on my email server!) but at least it will cut my spam to zero as well (hopefully).

moonrakerz

Wombat wrote:

A good tip is to try and keep your level of emails below the high water mark.

Then you are safe from "phishing" as well !!!

Hayzee_2

sue5665 wrote:

I was getting hundreds of crap a day as we have a B & B so our email address is always shown. The best way to deal with it is to just delete them and they will eventually stop.
Sue

Sue, what you could try if you have to show your email address online is to add brackets around the @ and ask respondants to remove them. Hopefully it will stop the automated systems picking it up. HTH

Hayzee

CHR15

Adding NOSPAM to email addresses is also popular to stop the bots harvesting email addresses.

e.g bed@breakfastNOSPAM.com

Then ask users to remove the NOSPAM.


If there was a successful method of preventing Spam, we would all use it so there wouldn't BE a spam problem.
The best you can do if you need to promote your email address, is to get the Spam down to a manageable size.

superscaper

One I see quite often is "splat". E.g. meSPLATmydomain.com as the spammerss bots will probalby be looking for the "@" symbol.

Moneymaker

You don't have to display your email address. Use a Form on your web site instead.

See http://www.!!!!!!.uk/spam.htm