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Post by Sasquatch on Apr 10, 2007 18:34:56 GMT -5
I've been getting a lot of spam touting hot stocks, always from "Jerry" or "Pauline" or some other "person." It always says something like "grab this stock from crap corp monday!" Usually some Chinese company. The spamkiller always grabs it.
The wierd part is, I'm sure the stuff is from overseas, because the text, though spelled correctly, is usually very odd grammatically, and sometimes makes no sense at all, like a bad translation.
I have rarely recieved spam. Most stuff I get is from somewhere I know I have been, like Cabelas or Verizon.
Do you guys get any stock spam?
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Post by Sleazy E on Apr 10, 2007 19:51:51 GMT -5
I get stock spam a lot.... the one i get the most though is the one for male enlargement.... most of those are forwards from my wife..... think maybe she is trying to tell me something?
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Post by dbd870 on Apr 11, 2007 4:22:55 GMT -5
We're all getting stock spam at work.
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Apr 11, 2007 6:16:35 GMT -5
I get tons of spam.
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Post by drs on Apr 11, 2007 6:46:18 GMT -5
I've been receiving some "Spam" mail too but not so much as I did when I was on "Dial-up". It might be that the security, at your Server is lacking or they are up-grading it.
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Post by bsutravis on Apr 11, 2007 7:20:03 GMT -5
Yep..... I'm drilled with the stock spam at work lately. Who in the heck actually sits there and gives consideration to that crap?
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Post by drs on Apr 11, 2007 7:32:17 GMT -5
Just got off the "Help-Chat" line with my Server, as I've been having trouble sending e-mail in the morning hours. He told me it is due to this "SPAM" mainly comming from China!  Also lookout for Viruses!!! |
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Post by swilk on Apr 11, 2007 8:26:46 GMT -5
We put in a SPAM firewall last year ...... we have it set to basically the loosest settings it can be set at.
The numbers are crazy.
Now, we have roughly 2000 email accounts. It has a rating scale for mail that goes from 1-12. Anything rating 11 or 12 gets blocked. Anything rating 7-10 goes through but is tagged with [BULK].
From the start of the last hour there have been 1931 messages blocked, 144 tagged and 258 allowed. Since the start of the day there have been 36635 blocked, 1761 tagged and 2741 allowed.
Since the counters were last cleared (about 45 days) there have been 14,475,403 messages blocked and another 750,000 that were tagged.
That is 14million messages that would have been going to my users if this device was not in place.
SPAM is a huge problem. Look for federal laws to be put in place in the near future to slow it down. There are already laws that make it illegal to send SPAM over fax ....
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Post by Woody Williams on Apr 11, 2007 8:47:04 GMT -5
We put in a SPAM firewall last year ...... we have it set to basically the loosest settings it can be set at. The numbers are crazy............... As bad as it is for us guys on private accounts just think how bad it is for folks like Swilk and company. I've got two email accounts. One is given out freely and one is somewhat protected. The "freely" account has three times as mcuh spam as the other. |
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Post by chicobrownbear on Apr 11, 2007 10:28:51 GMT -5
My email account is hotlinked on my employer's website, and this generates a LOT of stock scheme spam.
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Post by indianahick on Apr 11, 2007 12:14:05 GMT -5
When I changed from dial up to cable my spam reception has changed a lot. I used to have about 40 mail rules to block and delete and still got a bunch of garbage, now sometimes I wonder if these filters are not to tight. Oh well I still get most of me email from those friends and places that I want. All though Bass Pro and Cabala's don't send as much anymore.
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Post by swilk on Apr 11, 2007 13:31:16 GMT -5
The biggest problem you may or may not see it whitelists.
Most ISP's subscribe to different "whitelists" that have a listing of domains that are known spammers. These domains, and all PC's from them, are automatically blocked.
I get requests to trace why a certain email did not deliver ..... it is more often than not a whitelist our firewall subscribes to.
So, mail that is automatically blocked by a whitelist is not part of the 14million the firewall itself blocks.
We are talking millions and millions of emails each month ..... even if they are only a few kb's in size ...... it would be an enormous cost to house them all. Then there is bandwidth used each time a user checks his email and has to read through all that junk.
The costs add up in a hurry for providers.
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Post by drgreyhound on Apr 12, 2007 5:02:56 GMT -5
My only spam-free inbox is my university inbox, sad to say (a lot of what I get on there could be construed as spam, although not technically so!!).
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Post by swilk on Apr 12, 2007 7:53:24 GMT -5
Never mind .... I assume IU from you sig.
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Post by drgreyhound on Apr 13, 2007 13:59:53 GMT -5
Never mind .... I assume IU from you sig. Nope, UIndy...been there and done that at IU though!! |
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Post by swilk on Apr 13, 2007 17:29:56 GMT -5
Employee or Alum?
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