Re: Psst!

2006-10-25 Thread Roger Taranto
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 21:33, John Andersen wrote: > On Wednesday 25 October 2006 14:18, Roger Taranto wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 04:19, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: > > > Any suggestion to spread a spamtrap e-mail address? > > > > Every once in a while, I go to the unsubscribe link from some sp

Re: Psst!

2006-10-25 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 14:18, Roger Taranto wrote: > On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 04:19, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: > > Any suggestion to spread a spamtrap e-mail address? > > Every once in a while, I go to the unsubscribe link from some spam and > put my spamtrap address there. If they truly honor

Re: Psst!

2006-10-25 Thread Roger Taranto
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 04:19, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: > Any suggestion to spread a spamtrap e-mail address? Every once in a while, I go to the unsubscribe link from some spam and put my spamtrap address there. If they truly honor the unsubscribe request, then nothing happens to them. If they'r

Re: Psst!

2006-10-23 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Thu, October 19, 2006 13:19, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: > Any suggestion to spread a spamtrap e-mail address? just post on a mail list and your email will be scanned by pfishers into there crap maillists where thay sell all kinds of things, maybe even thay use YOUR email just for sending out s

RE: Psst!

2006-10-23 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Sat, October 21, 2006 17:04, Maurice Lucas wrote: > So one stupid spammer did put smtp before the usernames. spammer tested if the domain have catch all now you can "grep User /var/log/maillog" if using postfix :-) and then block the ip -- "This message was sent using 100% recycled spam m

Re: Psst!

2006-10-23 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Thu, October 19, 2006 13:41, Matt Kettler wrote: > Another thing I've been noticing recently.. some idiot has been culling > the web archives of mailing lists, and is trying to send spam emails to > MESSAGE ID's of posts I've made. Check your mail logs! damm don't tell :-) i have a whole sub

RE: Psst!

2006-10-21 Thread Maurice Lucas
On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 10:30 -0400, Chris Santerre wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: David B Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 1:20 AM > > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > > Subject: Re: Psst! > > > &g

Re: Psst!

2006-10-20 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:13:31 -0400, Chris Santerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Mark Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 10:41 AM >> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >> Subject:

RE: Psst!

2006-10-20 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: Psst! > -Original Message- > From: Mark Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 10:41 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Psst! > > > Chris Santerre wrote: > > > > > > Just curious,

Re: Psst!

2006-10-20 Thread Patrick Sneyers
Op 20-okt-06, om 16:30 heeft Chris Santerre het volgende geschreven:ust curious, but how many people see spam being sent to usersnames with the fisrt letter dropped? I see a ton in my logs. I believe spammers figure [EMAIL PROTECTED] will also have a [EMAIL PROTECTED].  Too bad for them...they do n

Re: Psst!

2006-10-20 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Andreas Pettersson wrote: Same here. I've also had lots of spam to addresses with various amounts of trailing "d" or "n" in local part. Like [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seems to be fewer of these today though. I meant tailing. -- Andreas

Re: Psst!

2006-10-20 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Chris Santerre wrote: Just curious, but how many people see spam being sent to usersnames with the fisrt letter dropped? I see a ton in my logs. I believe spammers figure [EMAIL PROTECTED] will also have a [EMAIL PROTECTED] Too bad for them...they do not. :) Same here. I've also had lots o

Re: Psst!

2006-10-20 Thread Chris Lear
* Chris Santerre wrote (20/10/06 15:30): > > >> -Original Message- >> From: David B Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 1:20 AM >> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Psst! >> >> >> On Thu,

Re: Psst!

2006-10-20 Thread Mark Johnson
Chris Santerre wrote: Just curious, but how many people see spam being sent to usersnames with the fisrt letter dropped? I see a ton in my logs. I believe spammers figure [EMAIL PROTECTED] will also have a [EMAIL PROTECTED] Too bad for them...they do not. :) I am noticing alot of this. A

RE: Psst!

2006-10-20 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: Psst! > -Original Message- > From: David B Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 1:20 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Psst! > > > On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Matt Kettler wrote: > > > Another

Re: Psst!

2006-10-19 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Matt Kettler wrote: > Another thing I've been noticing recently.. some idiot has been culling > the web archives of mailing lists, and is trying to send spam emails to > MESSAGE ID's of posts I've made. Check your mail logs! > > One or more of those would make a great spamtrap

Re: Psst!

2006-10-19 Thread Jo Rhett
ailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 12:16 PM To: Gary W. Smith Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Psst! Gary W. Smith wrote: Well, LT (lending tree) seemed to be the one selling people the information. When I received calls from these people from the mortgages t

Re: Psst!

2006-10-19 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:18:27 -0700, Kelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: >> Any suggestion to spread a spamtrap e-mail address? > >Subscribe it to some mailing lists. Make a few posts, preferably using >the address in your signature. Unsubscribe it. Then wait for spamm

RE: Psst!

2006-10-19 Thread Gary W. Smith
tioned off list). I've been around this list for some years now so this really isn't a noob scenario. > -Original Message- > From: Jo Rhett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 12:16 PM > To: Gary W. Smith > Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.o

Re: Psst!

2006-10-19 Thread Kelson
Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: Any suggestion to spread a spamtrap e-mail address? Subscribe it to some mailing lists. Make a few posts, preferably using the address in your signature. Unsubscribe it. Then wait for spammers to crawl the list archives. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communication

Re: Psst!

2006-10-19 Thread Jo Rhett
Gary W. Smith wrote: Well, LT (lending tree) seemed to be the one selling people the information. When I received calls from these people from the mortgages they mostly bought their hot leads from LT. Unless you used a different contact phone number than the one listed on your mortgage public

Re: Psst!

2006-10-19 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Matt Kettler wrote: Another thing I've been noticing recently.. some idiot has been culling the web archives of mailing lists, and is trying to send spam emails to MESSAGE ID's of posts I've made. Check your mail logs! I've been seeing this for about 9 months now. I'm now getting multiple at

RE: Psst!

2006-10-19 Thread Gary W. Smith
roblem. I just mentioned them as they were on the top of my list of offenders spam on my end. > -Original Message- > From: Jo Rhett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 11:43 AM > To: Gary W. Smith > Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Ps

Re: Psst!

2006-10-19 Thread Jo Rhett
19, 2006 11:27 AM To: Gary W. Smith Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Psst! Gary W. Smith wrote: Jo, please read in entirety... Sure. Um, no, I unsubscribed it from a list and then received LD spam... Therefore it's pretty much a spam gig. The solicited me first. You filled

RE: Psst!

2006-10-19 Thread Gary W. Smith
quot;. And as I mentioned before, this whole story is also in the SA archives... > -Original Message- > From: Jo Rhett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 11:27 AM > To: Gary W. Smith > Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Psst! >

Re: Psst!

2006-10-19 Thread Jo Rhett
Gary W. Smith wrote: Jo, please read in entirety... Sure. Um, no, I unsubscribed it from a list and then received LD spam... Therefore it's pretty much a spam gig. The solicited me first. You filled your information into a web form ... and they solicited you? *confused* We aren't ta

RE: Psst!

2006-10-19 Thread John D. Hardin
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Gary W. Smith wrote: > I took it one step further and signed up on one of the mortgage > applications using bogus information and received over 20 calls in > the upcoming days. To this date I still receive the occasional > call (thanks lending tree - not accusing you but most

RE: Psst!

2006-10-19 Thread Gary W. Smith
h > Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Psst! > > Gary W. Smith wrote: > > (thanks lending tree - not accusing you but most said they bought their > > hot leads from you). > > This is a situation where YOU deliberately gave their e-mail address to > lot

Re: Psst!

2006-10-19 Thread Jo Rhett
Gary W. Smith wrote: (thanks lending tree – not accusing you but most said they bought their hot leads from you). This is a situation where YOU deliberately gave their e-mail address to lots of legitimate companies, SOLICITED A RESPONSE, and then mark it spam when it arrives. Look at the Le

RE: Psst!

2006-10-19 Thread Gary W. Smith
Title: RE: Psst! Chris is right.  I created a spam trap account with the address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] some years ago now and unsubscribed it to a single account.  I still get 50 spams a day now.  I took it one step further and signed up on one of the mortgage applications using bogus

RE: Psst!

2006-10-19 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: Psst! > -Original Message- > From: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 10:48 AM > To: Giampaolo Tomassoni; users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Psst! > > > > Any suggestion to spread a spamtrap e-mail add

Re: Psst!

2006-10-19 Thread qqqq
Any suggestion to spread a spamtrap e-mail address? Plase, don't let 'em know... giampaolo Post in the newsgroups as well.

Re: Psst!

2006-10-19 Thread Christian Recktenwald
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 01:32:31PM +0200, Matthias Haegele wrote: > Giampaolo Tomassoni schrieb: > >Any suggestion to spread a spamtrap e-mail address? > > > >Plase, don't let 'em know... > > Place it on your homepage(s) (perhaps invisible, only for "webcrawlers"). > Place it In your signature e.g

Re: Psst!

2006-10-19 Thread Matt Kettler
Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: > Any suggestion to spread a spamtrap e-mail address? > > Plase, don't let 'em know... > I like to use "example" addresses in technical discussions on non-spam oriented mailing lists. "Oh, yeah, I have a script that parses my firewall logs and then emails me. " Anot

Re: Psst!

2006-10-19 Thread Matthias Haegele
Giampaolo Tomassoni schrieb: Any suggestion to spread a spamtrap e-mail address? dont use "*spam*" some spammers might be intelligent enough not to use these adresses ... giampaolo MH

Re: Psst!

2006-10-19 Thread Matthias Haegele
Giampaolo Tomassoni schrieb: Any suggestion to spread a spamtrap e-mail address? Plase, don't let 'em know... Place it on your homepage(s) (perhaps invisible, only for "webcrawlers"). Place it In your signature e.g. on multiple Mailinglists/Forums? giampaolo Greetings MH