Junk E-mail

[Lawreston]

or write to:

Plaza Neptuno, local #7
Via ricardo J Alfaro, Tumba Muerto
Panama Ciudad
Republica de Panama


Do any of you get e-mails which end with the above text? I never open the suspect "Subject" material and put same on my "Block Sender" list and the procedure deletes any/all from the sender. But they keep coming! The sender's address must keep getting changed to allow them to get through to me.

Any suggestions?

HR

 

[ScottM]

Any suggestions?

HR

Less caffeine?

 

[Pi1otguy]

The sender's address must keep getting changed to allow them to get through to me.

Any suggestions?

HR

I got nothing 4 u. Though blocking the sender doesn't work well because many of them spoof the sending address and actually "embed" a different reply-to address in the header.

Maybe one of the 133t tech guys here can devise some filter based on the sending computer's IP often buried in the header somewhere.

 

[Areeda]

IP addresses don't work well either. Spammers tend to use bot-networks (a lot of hijacked machines) to send their crap.

The best answer right now is a good spam-filter. Gmail has an excellent one.

Joe

 

[Pi1otguy]

Forgot about that. Silly me for assuming virtually all ISPs blocked POP3/SMTP traffic to the net. Heck, mine even rejects sending emails if the "from" email doesn't match my log on.

 

[Bob Noel]

That's the server (or maybe even your email client) rejecting that email.