What spam bugs you the most?

[Adam DickerAdam Dicker is verified member.]

The spam that I find the most annoying is the spam in a different language that I cannot understand and thus have no possibility of unsubscribing.

I get about 12 of these a day.

How do we deal with those?

-=DCG=-

 

[bwhhisc]

The spam that I find the most annoying is the spam in a different language that I cannot understand and thus have no possibility of unsubscribing. I get about 12 of these a day.
How do we deal with those? -=DCG=-

Some say to never "unsubscribe" it just lets them know they have a good address..,..unless from a legit/ known business you want off thier list. Any other opinions?

Seems that after a few tries, most of my "Chinese" etc. spammers stop trying but new ones seem to reappear.

We have upgraded out spam filters that move about 90% into a junk folder that we delete a few times a week.
We can add keywords and terms to our junk mail filter that all mail that has those words end up there.

 

[south]

Between Barracuda, spamhaus, and sorbs bbfh I only get a couple a day, if that. Yes, I would agree with not bothering hitting the unsubscribe link, unless you know it's a legitimate site that you had to sign up for get something. Dictionary spammers piss me off the most.

 

[DN BROKER]

I report all spams to the registrars, that's all it takes! The more people who take the time to report them to their registrar or hosting company will result in more terminated accounts.

 

[Theo]

Most automated spam is untraceable as it uses various bulletproof providers to bounce off. For this type of spam, heuristics filtration is the best method to combat it; an example is Akismet. For minor but persistent annoyances such as inclusion in domainer lists without an option to remove oneself, one can simply "out" the offenders on DNForum

 

[StianStian is verified member.]

The spam that I find the most annoying is the spam in a different language that I cannot understand and thus have no possibility of unsubscribing.

I get about 12 of these a day.

How do we deal with those?

-=DCG=-

Lol I get a lot of these as well, often in Chinese. Sometimes I spend time trying to translate parts of it, just in case it's a Chinese end-user wanting to buy a domain name. :lol:

 

[Aleksandar]

The spam that I find the most annoying is the spam in a different language that I cannot understand and thus have no possibility of unsubscribing.

I get about 12 of these a day.

How do we deal with those?

-=DCG=-

Domestic spam annoys me the most.

You're pissed because you don't understand it, but believe me if you did, it would only annoy you more like me. They tell you how great they are, how everybody signed up on that site and everybody talks about it on facebook, myspace and other social networks. You go and check how many backlinks that site has indexed in yahoo, there's only a couple internal. :lol:

One Serb actually started to joke around how he bought my address from a well known forum and how I should complain to them if I ever find out which one. He said "I won't stop bombing you, go ahead try and find me". I said you won't be laughing that much when I'm in Belgrade next week, you're only 300km away from me and I know where you live. Never got any spam from him since. He acquired domain privacy but too late I already wrote it down just in case.

 

[StianStian is verified member.]

He acquired domain privacy but too late I already wrote it down just in case.

Yeah, or just check the whois history at domaintools.com. Writing stuff down is so 1995.

 

[Aleksandar]

I didn't know about that back then. Plus I wanted to carry that piece of paper with me since I really was in Belgrade 2 days after that.

 

[JuniperPark]

Aleksandar, I like your style!

You should have printed a copy of the spam and put it on his doorstep with the note "found you!". I bet he would stop spamming right there.

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BTW, I'm in contact with THIS guy:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40812560/ns/technology_and_science-security/
"Man quits job, makes living suing spammers"

If Rick Latona (or "Lisa" or "Brenda" or whatever name "he" goes by now) decides to spam me again, I might soon be in possession of some nice domains and a home in Florida

 

[tekz999]

1 word: Spamarrest

Problem solved. Next.

 

[whitebark]

I've blocked 14 countries from sending anything to my servers. I've seen a drop of 85% in all spam (email, contact form, comment spam etc) - not to mention also most hacking attempts seemed to come from these same countries.

 

[tetrapak]

One Serb actually started to joke around how he bought my address from a well known forum and how I should complain to them if I ever find out which one. He said "I won't stop bombing you, go ahead try and find me". I said you won't be laughing that much when I'm in Belgrade next week, you're only 300km away from me and I know where you live. Never got any spam from him since. He acquired domain privacy but too late I already wrote it down just in case.

Nice!

I've had two notorious spammers on some of my websites who were the only ones solving the captcha. So I guess it was manual labor. I've sent them emails that I will ruin their whole Internet business if I receive just a single more of their spams, as that was basically the only one I had to delete on a daily base. Not a single spam from them since then.

 

[draggar]

Between Barracuda, spamhaus, and sorbs bbfh I only get a couple a day, if that. Yes, I would agree with not bothering hitting the unsubscribe link, unless you know it's a legitimate site that you had to sign up for get something. Dictionary spammers piss me off the most.

Yep, a friend of mine is having a hard time learning this. Spam is the main reason why I use gMail as my WhoIs contact and other contact email, great spam filters. Click report spam and most likely you'll never hear from them again.

Something gets sent there that shouldn't? You can un-flag it. if you need to.

What I hate the most is irrelevant emails form sellers. I buy an item from eBay and then they send me "updates" on my purchase telling me that they're selling completely irrelevant items. Or the common "We see you have this kind of domains - do you want these overly-priced completely irrelevant and useless domains? You have red houses, we have blue boats!!!!!!!"

 

[StianStian is verified member.]

Actually, the worst example of company spam I've ever received is the spam I got from 1800flowers.com after I ordered a bouquet from them earlier this year. I received at least 2-3 e-mails daily from them afterwards (until I hit the 'unsubscribe' button of course). I bet they lose a lot of business that way. I for one will never use them again after I've seen how they do business.

 

[ukbackorderukbackorder is verified member.]

The problem with overzealous mails who jump on any spam reporting is it's possible to find yourself innocently on a list that you can never get off. When I had malta.com I had approx 1500 people using the free email address option. Needless to say, although my servers are constantly monitored for outgoing spam, someone at gmail must have clicked the 'report spam' button - lo and behold 1500 people now find there way into the spam folder. Same for hotmail, yahoo, etc. After contacting them several times a year later malta.com was still on their lists and I was never provided with a copy of any emails that triggered it off. Quite ironic considering the hundreds of thousands of spams hitting my servers daily from hotmail,yahoo,gmail, etc

 

[draggar]

Actually, the worst example of company spam I've ever received is the spam I got from 1800flowers.com after I ordered a bouquet from them earlier this year. I received at least 2-3 e-mails daily from them afterwards (until I hit the 'unsubscribe' button of course). I bet they lose a lot of business that way. I for one will never use them again after I've seen how they do business.

I get these, too and sadly there is always that ONE email that comes in just before you unsubscribe or flag as spam with something you need at a great price.

 

[GAMEFINEST]

I hate them too, I heard spam arrest works wonders.

 

[dcristo]

You should never unsubscribe to a spam email, you will just get more spam. Ignore it and delete it!

 

[Onward]

I get put on some crazy google group from another country and get tons of BS spams in different languages. It sucks.