Recent decrease in spam

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#1 Post by **rkawakami** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:02 pm

Has anybody else noticed a fall-off in the amount of spam within the last couple of days? I have usually been getting a couple of hundred spams to my Yahoo account each day for the last month or two. Given the 40 or so that have appeared in the last 16 hours, I'd say that's a significant decrease. Remebering that there was some news about a prolific spammer recently I Googled and found this:

SFGate.com article

#2 Post by **jdhurst** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:50 pm

Hard to say. Since I have grey-listing and SpamAssassin, I don't get much anyway, but the little that gets trapped by SpamAssassin has fallen off lately. ... JDH

#3 Post by **GomJabbar** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 8:26 pm

Yeah, I've noticed that too.

If Scooter Libby and Paris Hilton can't get a reprieve, what chance does a spammer have?

Ahh, to be back in the days of Hoover.

skitty4gzus · #4 Post by **skitty4gzus** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 8:33 pm

i heard on the radio the other day about a certain young man responsible for sending out millions of junk mails PER DAY. they caught him in seattle, i think i heard? either way that definitely should help in the decrease of junk

#5 Post by **rkawakami** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:11 pm

Robert Soloway in Seattle. That's the guy referenced in the link I posted earlier. If my Yahoo "bulk" folder is any indication, at least MY address seems to have been taken offline by his present legal troubles.

#6 Post by **ryengineer** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:56 pm

Oddly, my Yahoo account has started receiving very large amount of spam lately in the past couple of weeks. Even those mails which were going to the Bulk mail folder has found a way into my mail box.

Turbo Audi · #7 Post by **Turbo Audi** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:49 pm

...It's why I love AIM.com mail.

#8 Post by **BillMorrow** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:26 am

HAH..!!
you're right..
spam has dropped off about 90%..!
i wonder how long before it starts again..

meanwhile i still have problems emailing some forum members because of blacklisting and graylisting..

#9 Post by **tomh009** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:47 am

jdhurst wrote:Hard to say. Since I have grey-listing and SpamAssassin, I don't get much anyway, but the little that gets trapped by SpamAssassin has fallen off lately. ... JDH

I run both of those for our web site, but I still get 50+ spam per day, most of which Thunderbird catches. The downside of having had the same email address for over 10 years, and visible on Usenet etc ...

Tom

#10 Post by **jdhurst** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 5:08 am

@Bill - greylisting should not affect you or the forum. Since your addresses are real and traceable, greylisting should have no impact. At least that is the theory and how it works at my ISP.

@Tom - I have a very well refined user_prefs file to trap almost everything greylisting does not. My email address goes back to 1996, so it attracts a lot of spam as well.

I average about 1 or 2 per month with the current arrangement.
... JDH

NS · #11 Post by NS » Fri Jun 15, 2007 10:53 am

BillMorrow wrote:HAH..!!
you're right..
spam has dropped off about 90%..!
i wonder how long before it starts again..

meanwhile i still have problems emailing some forum members because of blacklisting and graylisting..

And some do not check their emails for more than 3 months and soon their accounts will get deactivated automatically so it becomes a problem for you to contact them, as deactivated email accounts will bounce all emails back to the sender; and hence this will largely contribute in the amount of junk mails received everyday.

#12 Post by **K. Eng** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:22 pm

rkawakami wrote:Has anybody else noticed a fall-off in the amount of spam within the last couple of days?

My Gmail account reached a peak equilibrium of about 3000 spam messages in the spam folder, but in recent weeks the # of incoming spams has fallen sharply while the # of spams autodeleted by Gmail has remained steady.

I'm down to about 1200 spams and falling...

#13 Post by **ryengineer** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:37 pm

Recently I got this email on Yahoo! from someone pretending to be Paypal:

From: "PayPal" <service@paypal.us>
Subject: <My full name>, Credit Card Expiration Approaching

Dear xxxxxxxx,

Your credit card on file will expire soon.

To avoid any interruption to your service, please update your credit card information by following the steps below.

To update your credit card information:

1. Log in to your PayPal account

2. Update your credit card information following instructions on the next page

3. Click 'Save'

Click here to update your Account Information (a link to fake Paypal site)

PP case id : 2065-6069-8072-6080-7200

Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team

P.S. They've my full name, paypal login email address and even know a credit card is connected to my account (hunch!). Btw my credit card is still good for another 2 years.

#14 Post by **jdhurst** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:59 pm

Looks like June is coming in at 5 per day trapped in SpamAssassin whereas May and earlier was 10 per day (trapped). So there has be a definite decrease. ... JDH

pianowizard · #15 Post by **pianowizard** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:12 am

I haven't noticed any decrease in spam. I still get about 300 - 400 per day.

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