Re: [OT] Paypal scam emails

2006-01-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 14 January 2006 23:27, Gary W. Smith wrote: >I've been in this group for some years just not been very active. The >email was a phishing email. That was obvious. But the primary reason >for asking is that the catch all email account we have for this same >domain get's a lot of random

RE: [OT] Paypal scam emails

2006-01-14 Thread Gary W. Smith
I've been in this group for some years just not been very active. The email was a phishing email. That was obvious. But the primary reason for asking is that the catch all email account we have for this same domain get's a lot of random phishing from ebay but never to this particular one from a

Re: [OT] Paypal scam emails

2006-01-14 Thread jdow
From: "Gary W. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello, I received a typical paypal email today and wanted to ask this question of the group before looking too deep into the matter. I normally get at least one a day in my personal account. This is normal. Two weeks ago I setup a new account for pu

Re: SURBL

2006-01-14 Thread jdow
From: "List Mail User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >... On Friday, January 13, 2006, 10:12:40 AM, Irina Irina wrote: Hello Matt and all, I enabled SURBL checks on a secondary server yesterday. It catches spam so great that I like it very much. Today I enabled it on our main server... Queue star

Re: spamcopuri and SA 3.1.0

2006-01-14 Thread Richard Ozer
Tony, It's a plugin that's included with version 3 of spamassassin. It's called URIDNSBL and should have been installed along with your version upgrade. Activate it by editing the init.pre file in your spamassassin configuration directory, and uncommenting the line that references the URIDNS

spamcopuri and SA 3.1.0

2006-01-14 Thread Tony Cratz
Hello, I just upgraded my SpamAssassin from an older version to SA 3.1.0. In my old version I used the spamcopuri which I loved. Well is there a current version which will work for SA 3.1.0 or is there a way in SA to now do the same thing?

Re: [OT] Paypal scam emails

2006-01-14 Thread Loren Wilton
> My concern is did this information some how get randomly guessed by a While I will not disagree with others that both ebay and paypal contact staff are low-grade morons, and if they actually have any developers they are not allowed contact with the real world (at best; low-grade morons at worst)

Re: [OT] Paypal scam emails

2006-01-14 Thread Loren Wilton
Title: [OT] Paypal scam emails > Today I received a 139 point paypal spam to this new account.  Is there any possibilities that these > email lists are originating from within paypal?  I have yet to approach paypal regarding this.  Every > time I have called them in the past they just kic

RE: [OT] Paypal scam emails

2006-01-14 Thread Gary W. Smith
Um, yeah, I figured that. But I created the email alias account but I have never used it to buy anything yet. Besides PayPal, no one else in the world has this account. As for the account and ebay id, well, the above still applies. We use an ebay account established in `97. My concern is did t

Re: [OT] Paypal scam emails

2006-01-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 14 January 2006 15:23, List Mail User wrote: [...] > I have also recently contacted PayPal about spam to a non-obvious >tagged account that has never before received anything but valid > email. > > After three days came back the standard - "You must be mistaken, >we never make errors".

Re: [OT] Paypal scam emails

2006-01-14 Thread List Mail User
>... >If you ever made a payment or received one via paypal the address would >not be private. > >-- >Mr Michele Neylon >... Yes, but how to connect a paypal tagged email, an eBay account name and an eBay email contact account. Clause 'C' of the PayPal privacy policy says that your PayPal

Re: [OT] Paypal scam emails

2006-01-14 Thread Neylon:
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Re: [OT] Paypal scam emails

2006-01-14 Thread List Mail User
>... >Hello,=20 > >I received a typical paypal email today and wanted to ask this question >of the group before looking too deep into the matter. I normally get at >least one a day in my personal account. This is normal. Two weeks ago >I setup a new account for purchasing stuff through my compan

Re: razor2 question

2006-01-14 Thread Matt Kettler
At 03:19 PM 1/14/2006, Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães wrote: Hi Guys, I know this isnt a razor mailing list, but as lots of people that uses SA also uses Razor2, i will ask here too :) Are the results from Razor2 Engine 8 more trustable than Engine 4 ?? I mean ... i was thinking of r

razor2 question

2006-01-14 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães
Hi Guys, I know this isnt a razor mailing list, but as lots of people that uses SA also uses Razor2, i will ask here too :) Are the results from Razor2 Engine 8 more trustable than Engine 4 ?? I mean ... i was thinking of rewrite some rules and give high score for Engine8 than for

Re: spam scores low (Sendmail + smtp-vilter + SA )

2006-01-14 Thread Craig McLean
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jdow wrote: > (And sometimes it is fun to exercise morbid curiosity and look at some of > the outlandishly large scores and laugh at the poorly defined > messages. "Die Vile Spam!") > > {^_-} I'm glad it's not just me :-) C. - -- Craig McLean

Re: [OT] Paypal scam emails

2006-01-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 14 January 2006 11:21, Gary W. Smith wrote: >Hello, > >I received a typical paypal email today and wanted to ask this > question of the group before looking too deep into the matter. I > normally get at least one a day in my personal account. This is > normal. Two weeks ago I setup a

[OT] Paypal scam emails

2006-01-14 Thread Gary W. Smith
Title: [OT] Paypal scam emails Hello, I received a typical paypal email today and wanted to ask this question of the group before looking too deep into the matter.  I normally get at least one a day in my personal account.  This is normal.  Two weeks ago I setup a new account for purchasing

Re: SURBL

2006-01-14 Thread List Mail User
>... >On Friday, January 13, 2006, 10:12:40 AM, Irina Irina wrote: >> Hello Matt and all, > >> I enabled SURBL checks on a secondary server yesterday. It catches spam so >> great that I like it very much. > >> Today I enabled it on our main server... Queue started to grow, messages >> were piling

Re: Stopping spamd from writing to /root/.spamassassin

2006-01-14 Thread Mark Cooke
François Conil wrote: Make a symbolic link from /root/.spamassassin to /your/specified/path/.spamassassin Whilst I did toy with the idea, it's not really solving my problem I really want to know why it's doing this. I may of found a clue and it could be in the way I'm calling spamc. If sp