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http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5058168.htmlQuote:
Anybody still unconvinced about the scale of the spam epidemic should consider this fact: MessageLabs intercepted more spam in the last month than in the whole of 2002.
whats up with these people ...why the spamming increase ?
That's ludicrous... Something needs to be done and soon. These people need to be taught a lesson.
That's about 51% of all e-mails are spam. Man that's not good.Quote:
MessageLabs' anti-spam service scanned more than 156.6 million e-mails during July. Of those 79.7 million were identified as spam and intercepted.
Guidance...
You know the email addresses that spammers use? Would it be possible to mass-spam them too?
The increase can be attributed to several things:Quote:
whats up with these people ...why the spamming increase ?
1) Traditional marketing costs have gone up.
2) SPAM is a very effective way to market material at a fraction of the cost of traditional marketing techniques.
3) People are actually responding to the SPAM. Yes, there are people who actually buy things based on SPAM. I remember reading that SPAM generates around 2 - 5% response rate.
4) More and more people are getting on the net worldwide. This means that the SPAM audience is a growing segment with no additional costs to market to the segment.
A parting thought, think about how much it costs to mail an advertisement to 500,000 people. Now, how much does a mailing list cost along with hardware and other startup fees for SPAMMING? Many of you know that if done correctly, the only thing you'll pay for is your ISP and some hardware.
--TH13
Not a chance. They either use bots to create free addresses on providers of webmail, or using on-site software they can spoof IP addresses [I have used some Perl scripts that allow you to put in any address and it sends it as that address].Quote:
Originally posted here by Cybr1d
You know the email addresses that spammers use? Would it be possible to mass-spam them too?
Only by reading headers and trying to trace IPs can one attempt to fight back. But it's not really worth it I think... Too much work, and no chance to stop it ever. The way I see it, sometimes in the future excesive quantities of spam will cause free webmail to become unavailable and even servers to crash due to overloading and the such...
I wonder how they determine what is spam and what is not spam. We send out a client newsletter to our customers each month to about 2000 email addresses. Would they consider that spam?
Go to www.mailwasher.net and download mailwasher (it takes the Pro version for hotmail) to rid yourself of spam. This handy little tool will BOUNCE the spam you receive and get you removed from the lists used by those that spam....it isn't perfect but it beats doing nothing.
Spam sux
i got bout 300 messages waiting for me to be downloaded at my hotmail account.
RIP.......sniff.......sniff.
Mailwasher actually BOUNCES the email, how convenient. If Gates and Co is successful
then Hotmail/MSN might actually Servers might have a chance in the future. But as was
said earlier, eventually the free accounts will go away, and bulk spoofing will be left to stop.
So that was not really Britney Spears that emailed me.... RATS! (J/K)Quote:
Originally posted here by hypronix
Not a chance. They either use bots to create free addresses on providers of webmail, or using on-site software they can spoof IP addresses [I have used some Perl scripts that allow you to put in any address and it sends it as that address].
Only by reading headers and trying to trace IPs can one attempt to fight back. But it's not really worth it I think... Too much work, and no chance to stop it ever. The way I see it, sometimes in the future excesive quantities of spam will cause free webmail to become unavailable and even servers to crash due to overloading and the such...
Sorry, I may have been guilty of some of this and here is the story .....
I noticed late in July that I was getting mail (primary ISP mail) bounced back from AOL, Yahoo to name a few and the content of the bounced mail definitely spam (Viagra sales and so forth), the headers seemed to indicate the original mail was coming out of Asia but was showing my email as the one who had sent it !!!.
I am not running a mail server (at least not to my knowledge !!) but noticed the problem started after a P2P program was installed and run on the W2K box.
After checking my machines (virus scans and manually checking for rootkit, checking logs etc..) I could not find where it could possibly be coming from and faced with the prospect that whatever had crawled into my machines had disabled any detection, I immediately took the machines (W2k and Mandrake Linux) offline, wiped them clean and re-installed the OS's - a bit drastic, but better to be safe than sorry.
I dont have the spare machines to pull the drives out and do the whole forensic bit so this was the best option in my opinion plus they are only home machines and all important data had been backed up.
The Windows box now does not have an email client on it and Outlook has been disabled (I use the *nix box for email) and definitely no P2P software anywhere, with the necessary security restrictions so the kids cant install it again !!
I advised my ISP of the going's on in case there was a problem their end - but I seriously think I was the culprit via a worm or whatever that passed through the P2P network undetected.
Since the "wipe" no more problems and this one really still has me scratching my head, although it has definitely opened my eyes to the dangers of P2P programs/networks even if you are running up-to-date virus scanners and firewalls and possibly the reason for the rise in spam.
"the headers seemed to indicate the original mail was coming out of Asia but was showing my email as the one who had sent it !!!. "
They could have just spoofed your address too, but if you could trace it to a P2P download, probably not.