Generally, the last few weeks or so have seen a significant uptick in pre-tested spam with very high volumes. We have been getting quite a lot of complaints about it, but essentially, by definition, the spammer pre-tests their campaign against all available tests by sending samples to themselves on protected systems... when they have a version that gets past all of the tests they fire it off in huge volumes with their bot-net. As much as possible we stay ahead of them by predicting what their next rounds are likely to be -- and often that works, but if they manage to pre-test against us then they beat that also.
As you have may have seen these messages are bypassing everyone's spam defenses. We are working on adding additional tests in Declude to try combat this. Also getting samples to Message Sniffer will help Message Sniffer create rules as soon as there is a new wave to prevent some of these outbreaks. If you are running Message Sniffer send spam samples to [email protected] David Barker Mails Best Friend Email : [email protected] Web : www.mailsbestfriend.com Office : 866.919.2075 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Don Winsauer Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 4:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MBF] Big uptick in spam We are seeing a significant increase in spam in the last two weeks. I have seen times where similar emails are sent but with different links in the email. One gets caught and the other gets through. We have gotten multiple calls from our normally quiet customers. Anyone else seeing this? Thanks, Don ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at net1media.com ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[email protected]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[email protected]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[email protected]> Send administrative queries to <[email protected]> ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[email protected]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[email protected]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[email protected]> Send administrative queries to <[email protected]>
