Re: [OT] What the *&^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM

[Kay C Lan]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:46 AM, stephen barncard <
stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com> wrote:

>
> I have no spam worries since I flowed all my email accounts through Gmail.
> It's the best in the business and we can all contribute to the blacklist.
> I used to be so paranoid I'd create a new email address for each
> subscription/signup so I could find out who betrayed me.
>

And that's what is confusing. My account is a Gmail account and my other
Gmail accounts are fine. It's just this one that has suddenly had the dam
wall break and the SPAM is overflowing :-(
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Re: [OT] What the *&^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM

[stephen barncard]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 5:03 AM, Kay C Lan  wrote:

> ( I've believed that
> the Gmail team have done a wonderful job at blocking the tidal wave of
> SPAM, so not sure now why so much is getting through.
>

I have no spam worries since I flowed all my email accounts through Gmail.
It's the best in the business and we can all contribute to the blacklist.
I used to be so paranoid I'd create a new email address for each
subscription/signup so I could find out who betrayed me.

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Re: [OT] What the *&^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM

[Bob Sneidar]

:-)

On Jun 17, 2015, at 02:50 , Simon Knight 
mailto:si...@smknight.co.uk>> wrote:

try Russia

On 08/06/2015 17:00, dunb...@aol.com wrote:
Where can I find these Russian women?


Craig

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Re: [OT] What the *&^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM

[Simon Knight]

 try Russia

On 08/06/2015 17:00, dunb...@aol.com wrote:

Where can I find these Russian women?


Craig



-Original Message-
From: Richard Gaskin 
To: use-livecode 
Sent: Mon, Jun 8, 2015 10:47 am
Subject: Re: [OT] What the *&^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM


Kay C Lan wrote:

  > I use this email account almost exclusively for this Use
List now;
  > so I haven't recently given it to anyone, company or whatever.

  > Up until yesterday I usually received 1 or 2 false SPAMS a day;
  >
typically from Dunbarx's AOL account or some other legitamate Use
  > List user
with an AOL account.
  >
  > Up until yesterday I usually receved a single
actual SPAM every
  > couple of months.
  >
  > Today I accessed this account
and I had over 50!!! That's more than
  > the TOTAL email SPAM I've ever
received on this account.

This is a public list where the archives are
publicly
available:
<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode>

Every
resource publicly available is easily spiderable.

I think all you're seeing
is what seems to me a recent uptick in the
aggressiveness of certain
spammer-controlled botnets.  I've been seeing
a lot more spam myself lately,
mostly for junk stock tips and bots
claiming to be Russian women who want to
marry an American.

There is no cure.  Spam consumes so much of our Internet
that an
estimated 5-10% of legitimate email never arrives at its destination

because all systems are bogged down trying to stay on top of spam.

Windows
still has about 90% of the computing market, and most botnets
are run on
unsuspecting end-users' machines.  The rest are often
installed on Web servers
that didn't stay on top of the updates for
their CMS frameworks.  When we
combine millions of compromised servers
with tens of millions of compromised
desktop machines, the botnets can
only win.

Sorry, don't have a "glass half
full" for this one.




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Re: [OT] What the *&^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM

[Bob Sneidar]

It may be because you are outside the US that you are getting spam. My 
experience has been good.

Bob S


On Jun 10, 2015, at 01:01 , Richmond 
mailto:richmondmathew...@gmail.com>> wrote:

On 10/06/15 01:02, Bob Sneidar wrote:
Gmail does a pretty darned good job of filtering this sort of thing. Apple’s 
iCloud does too. I almost never get spam and it’s never the really bad stuff.

Bob S

Not really: Gmail seems to think I live in the USA: am snowed under with 
Walmart coupons and offers for help with my "tires" (sic) - which is
funny, because, although as I get older I do tire more easily; as 'tire' is a 
verb I don't understand why those people insist in using it
as a noun.

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Re: [OT] What the *&^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM

[Richmond]

On 10/06/15 01:02, Bob Sneidar wrote:

Gmail does a pretty darned good job of filtering this sort of thing. Apple’s 
iCloud does too. I almost never get spam and it’s never the really bad stuff.

Bob S


Not really: Gmail seems to think I live in the USA: am snowed under with 
Walmart coupons and offers for help with my "tires" (sic) - which is
funny, because, although as I get older I do tire more easily; as 'tire' 
is a verb I don't understand why those people insist in using it

as a noun.

I am also getting buckets of offers of a sexual nature from places like 
Ukraine and Moldova (the last being about a 7 hour drive: so by the time

I got there I'd have no energy for what they offer).

Lasik Vision . . . . . .

View ­ Photos ­ Of CHRlSTlAN ­ SlNGLES In Your ­ Area . . . well, as 
neither single, nor particularly "Christian" (well, not that anybody 
would notice)

they've got that wrong.

Beat Alcoholism Today . . . Why? I am perfectly happy with my alcohol 
consumption: admittedly it is fairly moderate
(about 2 glasses of wine a day): but should I want to 'up' my 
consumption that is none of their business.


Looking for a great smartphone at ­ a ­ great price? ­. . . No, I'm not 
looking for a smartphone; and I wouldn't want one even if it were Free, 
or even,

come to think of things, if you paid me to have one.

Luckily Thunderbird pops 98% of the SPAM in the 'Junk' folder: so, not 
that impressed by Gmail's filters, but Thunderbird makes up for that.


In fact, I cannot recommend Thunderbird enough: 
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/


Richmond.




On Jun 8, 2015, at 07:46 , Richard Gaskin  wrote:

Kay C Lan wrote:


I use this email account almost exclusively for this Use List now;
so I haven't recently given it to anyone, company or whatever.

Up until yesterday I usually received 1 or 2 false SPAMS a day;
typically from Dunbarx's AOL account or some other legitamate Use
List user with an AOL account.

Up until yesterday I usually receved a single actual SPAM every
couple of months.

Today I accessed this account and I had over 50!!! That's more than
the TOTAL email SPAM I've ever received on this account.

This is a public list where the archives are publicly available:


Every resource publicly available is easily spiderable.

I think all you're seeing is what seems to me a recent uptick in the 
aggressiveness of certain spammer-controlled botnets.  I've been seeing a lot 
more spam myself lately, mostly for junk stock tips and bots claiming to be 
Russian women who want to marry an American.

There is no cure.  Spam consumes so much of our Internet that an estimated 
5-10% of legitimate email never arrives at its destination because all systems 
are bogged down trying to stay on top of spam.

Windows still has about 90% of the computing market, and most botnets are run 
on unsuspecting end-users' machines.  The rest are often installed on Web 
servers that didn't stay on top of the updates for their CMS frameworks.  When 
we combine millions of compromised servers with tens of millions of compromised 
desktop machines, the botnets can only win.

Sorry, don't have a "glass half full" for this one.

--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web

ambassa...@fourthworld.comhttp://www.FourthWorld.com

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Re: [OT] What the *&^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM

[Bob Sneidar]

Gmail does a pretty darned good job of filtering this sort of thing. Apple’s 
iCloud does too. I almost never get spam and it’s never the really bad stuff. 

Bob S


> On Jun 8, 2015, at 07:46 , Richard Gaskin  wrote:
> 
> Kay C Lan wrote:
> 
> > I use this email account almost exclusively for this Use List now;
> > so I haven't recently given it to anyone, company or whatever.
> >
> > Up until yesterday I usually received 1 or 2 false SPAMS a day;
> > typically from Dunbarx's AOL account or some other legitamate Use
> > List user with an AOL account.
> >
> > Up until yesterday I usually receved a single actual SPAM every
> > couple of months.
> >
> > Today I accessed this account and I had over 50!!! That's more than
> > the TOTAL email SPAM I've ever received on this account.
> 
> This is a public list where the archives are publicly available:
> 
> 
> Every resource publicly available is easily spiderable.
> 
> I think all you're seeing is what seems to me a recent uptick in the 
> aggressiveness of certain spammer-controlled botnets.  I've been seeing a lot 
> more spam myself lately, mostly for junk stock tips and bots claiming to be 
> Russian women who want to marry an American.
> 
> There is no cure.  Spam consumes so much of our Internet that an estimated 
> 5-10% of legitimate email never arrives at its destination because all 
> systems are bogged down trying to stay on top of spam.
> 
> Windows still has about 90% of the computing market, and most botnets are run 
> on unsuspecting end-users' machines.  The rest are often installed on Web 
> servers that didn't stay on top of the updates for their CMS frameworks.  
> When we combine millions of compromised servers with tens of millions of 
> compromised desktop machines, the botnets can only win.
> 
> Sorry, don't have a "glass half full" for this one.
> 
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
> 
> ambassa...@fourthworld.comhttp://www.FourthWorld.com
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Re: [OT] What the *&^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM

[Peter Haworth]

Ah, didn't know they used NoMoRoBo.  Also didn't know Google Voice did
telemarketing/robo filtering, good to know.

Pete
lcSQL Software 
Home of lcStackBrowser  and
SQLiteAdmin 

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 1:54 PM, J. Landman Gay 
wrote:

> I'm on Ooma too. I ported my business number to them which left me with an
> unused second line on the Telo. That's the one I forward my home calls to
> from Google Voice. Ooma has built-in filtering with Nomorobo, you can turn
> it on in settings. That slimmed down my blacklist considerably.
>
> You can also blacklist whole area codes or prefixes. I have most of the
> 8xx* prefixes blacklisted.
>
> On 6/9/2015 2:30 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
>
>> I just started using Ooma VoIP for my phone calls and it has some features
>> that automatically block telemarketers and robocalls, plus you can
>> maintain
>> your own blacklist.  I get hardly any telemarketing/robo calls now and the
>> ones that sneak through get added to my blacklist immediately.
>>
>> Pete
>> lcSQL Software 
>> Home of lcStackBrowser  and
>> SQLiteAdmin 
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 12:00 PM, J. Landman Gay > >
>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  On 6/8/2015 2:34 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
>>>
>>>  After getting anywhere from 50 up to 250 spam messages a day, even with
 spam filtering enabled at Dream Host, I had enough and started using
 cloud-based filtering provider PostLayer.


>>> Veering off the off-topic a bit, I've done something similar for phone
>>> spam. I forward my home line to my google voice number, which filters out
>>> most of the junk calls. Google then rings my second line with any valid
>>> calls. Telemarketers are almost completely eliminated.
>>>
>>> If you have a VoIP phone line, look into nomorobo.com which does the
>>> same
>>> thing.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
>>> HyperActive Software   | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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Re: [OT] What the *&^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM

[J. Landman Gay]

I'm on Ooma too. I ported my business number to them which left me with 
an unused second line on the Telo. That's the one I forward my home 
calls to from Google Voice. Ooma has built-in filtering with Nomorobo, 
you can turn it on in settings. That slimmed down my blacklist considerably.


You can also blacklist whole area codes or prefixes. I have most of the 
8xx* prefixes blacklisted.


On 6/9/2015 2:30 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:

I just started using Ooma VoIP for my phone calls and it has some features
that automatically block telemarketers and robocalls, plus you can maintain
your own blacklist.  I get hardly any telemarketing/robo calls now and the
ones that sneak through get added to my blacklist immediately.

Pete
lcSQL Software 
Home of lcStackBrowser  and
SQLiteAdmin 

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 12:00 PM, J. Landman Gay 
wrote:


On 6/8/2015 2:34 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:


After getting anywhere from 50 up to 250 spam messages a day, even with
spam filtering enabled at Dream Host, I had enough and started using
cloud-based filtering provider PostLayer.



Veering off the off-topic a bit, I've done something similar for phone
spam. I forward my home line to my google voice number, which filters out
most of the junk calls. Google then rings my second line with any valid
calls. Telemarketers are almost completely eliminated.

If you have a VoIP phone line, look into nomorobo.com which does the same
thing.

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HyperActive Software   | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

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Re: [OT] What the *&^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM

[William Prothero]

Jacqueline:
Nomorobo looks great! Unfortunately, I have MagicJack (which I like a lot) and 
it isn’t included in the service.
Bill

> On Jun 9, 2015, at 12:00 PM, J. Landman Gay  wrote:
> 
> On 6/8/2015 2:34 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
>> After getting anywhere from 50 up to 250 spam messages a day, even with
>> spam filtering enabled at Dream Host, I had enough and started using
>> cloud-based filtering provider PostLayer.
> 
> Veering off the off-topic a bit, I've done something similar for phone spam. 
> I forward my home line to my google voice number, which filters out most of 
> the junk calls. Google then rings my second line with any valid calls. 
> Telemarketers are almost completely eliminated.
> 
> If you have a VoIP phone line, look into nomorobo.com which does the same 
> thing.
> 
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software   | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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Re: [OT] What the *&^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM

[Peter Haworth]

I just started using Ooma VoIP for my phone calls and it has some features
that automatically block telemarketers and robocalls, plus you can maintain
your own blacklist.  I get hardly any telemarketing/robo calls now and the
ones that sneak through get added to my blacklist immediately.

Pete
lcSQL Software 
Home of lcStackBrowser  and
SQLiteAdmin 

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 12:00 PM, J. Landman Gay 
wrote:

> On 6/8/2015 2:34 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
>
>> After getting anywhere from 50 up to 250 spam messages a day, even with
>> spam filtering enabled at Dream Host, I had enough and started using
>> cloud-based filtering provider PostLayer.
>>
>
> Veering off the off-topic a bit, I've done something similar for phone
> spam. I forward my home line to my google voice number, which filters out
> most of the junk calls. Google then rings my second line with any valid
> calls. Telemarketers are almost completely eliminated.
>
> If you have a VoIP phone line, look into nomorobo.com which does the same
> thing.
>
> --
> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software   | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>
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Re: [OT] What the *&^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM

[J. Landman Gay]

On 6/8/2015 2:34 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:

After getting anywhere from 50 up to 250 spam messages a day, even with
spam filtering enabled at Dream Host, I had enough and started using
cloud-based filtering provider PostLayer.


Veering off the off-topic a bit, I've done something similar for phone 
spam. I forward my home line to my google voice number, which filters 
out most of the junk calls. Google then rings my second line with any 
valid calls. Telemarketers are almost completely eliminated.


If you have a VoIP phone line, look into nomorobo.com which does the 
same thing.


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Re: [OT] What the *&^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM

[Richmond]

On 09/06/15 15:03, Kay C Lan wrote:

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 12:34 AM, J. Landman Gay 
wrote:


I also get the Russian women,

I wonder if my last name was Gay I'd get Russian men ;-)

I'm getting emails about my stolen car (parked next to the front door), my
stolen phone (sitting on my desk), incredibly low interest credit cards for
Walmart and Cosco (don't have outlets here) and of course for a bunch of
medication that seems to suggest the world's population is set to plummet.

Richard, Scott, they are definitely not glass half full comments. I've
always appreciated how huge the SPAM problem is, the company I work for
reports that legitimate traffic on it's WAN/LAN accounts for less than 0.2%
of the traffic, the rest is SPAM and hacker attempts :-( I've believed that
the Gmail team have done a wonderful job at blocking the tidal wave of
SPAM, so not sure now why so much is getting through.

Thankfully though Gmail does correctly end up in my SPAM folder so it is
easy to deal with.



What is funnier is that I am getting SPAM about all sorts of wonderful 
things available to me

in the States; and that is odd as I live in Bulgaria.

All this proves is that computers don't know "nothing".

Richmond.

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Re: [OT] What the *&^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM

[Earthednet-wp]

Kay,
The scam and spam problem is simply enormous. I notice that the National 
Science Foundation is soliciting research proposals for secure internet. How to 
civilize the beast may be hopeless, but it can't fail to change our 
civilization in ways we may not foresee. I am faced with criminal activity 
multiple times daily. It must change folks' perceptions and attitudes. It 
certainly makes me more suspicious of every email I get. That's probably a good 
thing.

Bill

William Prothero
http://es.earthednet.org

> On Jun 9, 2015, at 5:03 AM, Kay C Lan  wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 12:34 AM, J. Landman Gay 
> wrote:
> 
>> I also get the Russian women,
>> 
>> I wonder if my last name was Gay I'd get Russian men ;-)
> 
> I'm getting emails about my stolen car (parked next to the front door), my
> stolen phone (sitting on my desk), incredibly low interest credit cards for
> Walmart and Cosco (don't have outlets here) and of course for a bunch of
> medication that seems to suggest the world's population is set to plummet.
> 
> Richard, Scott, they are definitely not glass half full comments. I've
> always appreciated how huge the SPAM problem is, the company I work for
> reports that legitimate traffic on it's WAN/LAN accounts for less than 0.2%
> of the traffic, the rest is SPAM and hacker attempts :-( I've believed that
> the Gmail team have done a wonderful job at blocking the tidal wave of
> SPAM, so not sure now why so much is getting through.
> 
> Thankfully though Gmail does correctly end up in my SPAM folder so it is
> easy to deal with.
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Re: [OT] What the *&^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM

[Kay C Lan]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 12:34 AM, J. Landman Gay 
wrote:

> I also get the Russian women,
>
> I wonder if my last name was Gay I'd get Russian men ;-)

I'm getting emails about my stolen car (parked next to the front door), my
stolen phone (sitting on my desk), incredibly low interest credit cards for
Walmart and Cosco (don't have outlets here) and of course for a bunch of
medication that seems to suggest the world's population is set to plummet.

Richard, Scott, they are definitely not glass half full comments. I've
always appreciated how huge the SPAM problem is, the company I work for
reports that legitimate traffic on it's WAN/LAN accounts for less than 0.2%
of the traffic, the rest is SPAM and hacker attempts :-( I've believed that
the Gmail team have done a wonderful job at blocking the tidal wave of
SPAM, so not sure now why so much is getting through.

Thankfully though Gmail does correctly end up in my SPAM folder so it is
easy to deal with.
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Re: [OT] What the *&^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM

[Scott Rossi]

After getting anywhere from 50 up to 250 spam messages a day, even with
spam filtering enabled at Dream Host, I had enough and started using
cloud-based filtering provider PostLayer.  You set up groups of up to 5
email addresses, and for $15/year/group they filter all your incoming mail
and send you a daily summary that you can review for any mis-filtered
messages (you can configure their admin settings with white list and
wildcard domains).  You can click on any link in the summary to view a
mail message directly via the PostLayer system, or designate a message to
be delivered immediately.  I've used the service for just a couple of
months now, but I've been very happy with the results.

The occasional spam will slip through, and their docs acknowledge this,
but the amount of time I used to spend deleting unwanted mail has gone way
down.  For folks looking for another way to stop email spam, you might
want to give PostLayer a try.  They have a 30 day free trial period.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design




On 6/8/15, 9:34 AM, "J. Landman Gay"  wrote:

>On June 8, 2015 9:46:08 AM CDT, Richard Gaskin
> wrote:
>
>>I think all you're seeing is what seems to me a recent uptick in the
>>aggressiveness of certain spammer-controlled botnets.  I've been seeing
>>
>>a lot more spam myself lately, mostly for junk stock tips and bots
>>claiming to be Russian women who want to marry an American.
>
>Same here, my spam emails have increased in the last couple of months. I
>also get the Russian women, but some of it is coming in now in languages
>I can't read. I've been looking for a language header I can filter on but
>I can't find one. 
>
>-- 
>Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
>HyperActive Software   | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>
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Re: [OT] What the *&^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM

[J. Landman Gay]

On June 8, 2015 9:46:08 AM CDT, Richard Gaskin  
wrote:

>I think all you're seeing is what seems to me a recent uptick in the 
>aggressiveness of certain spammer-controlled botnets.  I've been seeing
>
>a lot more spam myself lately, mostly for junk stock tips and bots 
>claiming to be Russian women who want to marry an American.

Same here, my spam emails have increased in the last couple of months. I also 
get the Russian women, but some of it is coming in now in languages I can't 
read. I've been looking for a language header I can filter on but I can't find 
one. 

-- 
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software   | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

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Re: [OT] What the *&^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM

[dunbarx]

Where can I find these Russian women?


Craig



-Original Message-
From: Richard Gaskin 
To: use-livecode 
Sent: Mon, Jun 8, 2015 10:47 am
Subject: Re: [OT] What the *&^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM


Kay C Lan wrote:

 > I use this email account almost exclusively for this Use
List now;
 > so I haven't recently given it to anyone, company or whatever.

>
 > Up until yesterday I usually received 1 or 2 false SPAMS a day;
 >
typically from Dunbarx's AOL account or some other legitamate Use
 > List user
with an AOL account.
 >
 > Up until yesterday I usually receved a single
actual SPAM every
 > couple of months.
 >
 > Today I accessed this account
and I had over 50!!! That's more than
 > the TOTAL email SPAM I've ever
received on this account.

This is a public list where the archives are
publicly
available:
<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode>

Every
resource publicly available is easily spiderable.

I think all you're seeing
is what seems to me a recent uptick in the 
aggressiveness of certain
spammer-controlled botnets.  I've been seeing 
a lot more spam myself lately,
mostly for junk stock tips and bots 
claiming to be Russian women who want to
marry an American.

There is no cure.  Spam consumes so much of our Internet
that an 
estimated 5-10% of legitimate email never arrives at its destination

because all systems are bogged down trying to stay on top of spam.

Windows
still has about 90% of the computing market, and most botnets 
are run on
unsuspecting end-users' machines.  The rest are often 
installed on Web servers
that didn't stay on top of the updates for 
their CMS frameworks.  When we
combine millions of compromised servers 
with tens of millions of compromised
desktop machines, the botnets can 
only win.

Sorry, don't have a "glass half
full" for this one.

-- 
  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
  Software
Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
 

 
ambassa...@fourthworld.com   
http://www.FourthWorld.com

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Re: [OT] What the *&^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM

[Richard Gaskin]

Kay C Lan wrote:

> I use this email account almost exclusively for this Use List now;
> so I haven't recently given it to anyone, company or whatever.
>
> Up until yesterday I usually received 1 or 2 false SPAMS a day;
> typically from Dunbarx's AOL account or some other legitamate Use
> List user with an AOL account.
>
> Up until yesterday I usually receved a single actual SPAM every
> couple of months.
>
> Today I accessed this account and I had over 50!!! That's more than
> the TOTAL email SPAM I've ever received on this account.

This is a public list where the archives are publicly available:


Every resource publicly available is easily spiderable.

I think all you're seeing is what seems to me a recent uptick in the 
aggressiveness of certain spammer-controlled botnets.  I've been seeing 
a lot more spam myself lately, mostly for junk stock tips and bots 
claiming to be Russian women who want to marry an American.


There is no cure.  Spam consumes so much of our Internet that an 
estimated 5-10% of legitimate email never arrives at its destination 
because all systems are bogged down trying to stay on top of spam.


Windows still has about 90% of the computing market, and most botnets 
are run on unsuspecting end-users' machines.  The rest are often 
installed on Web servers that didn't stay on top of the updates for 
their CMS frameworks.  When we combine millions of compromised servers 
with tens of millions of compromised desktop machines, the botnets can 
only win.


Sorry, don't have a "glass half full" for this one.

--
 Richard Gaskin
 Fourth World Systems
 Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
 
 ambassa...@fourthworld.comhttp://www.FourthWorld.com

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Re: [OT] What the *&^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM

[Kay C Lan]

Hi Craig,

Although your emails end up in my SPAM folder it's never really been a
problem because they are there all alone so it's pretty clear they are not
real SPAM. Now though the taps have been openned and they continue to pour
in - another 20ish since my last post. I thought maybe someone here has had
their Address Book breached, but if I'm the only one suffering that's good
for everyone else but leaves me a bit confused as to what's gone wrong.

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 1:57 PM,  wrote:

> Kay.
>
>
> I almost never receive spam on my aol account, rather, I get bounced from
> the list about once per week.. Sorry I seem to be the vector; maybe all
> mine is going your way?
>
>
> Craig
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Kay C Lan 
> To: How to use LiveCode 
> Sent: Mon, Jun 8, 2015 1:12 am
> Subject: [OT] What the *&^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM
>
>
> I use this email account almost exclusively for this Use List now; so I
> haven't
> recently given it to anyone, company or whatever.
>
> Up until yesterday I
> usually received 1 or 2 false SPAMS a day; typically
> from Dunbarx's AOL account
> or some other legitamate Use List user with an
> AOL account.
>
> Up until
> yesterday I usually receved a single actual SPAM every couple
> of
> months.
>
> Today I accessed this account and I had over 50!!! That's more
> than the
> TOTAL email SPAM I've ever received on this account.
>
> What just
> happened?
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Re: [OT] What the *&^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM

[dunbarx]

Kay.


I almost never receive spam on my aol account, rather, I get bounced from the 
list about once per week.. Sorry I seem to be the vector; maybe all mine is 
going your way?


Craig



-Original Message-
From: Kay C Lan 
To: How to use LiveCode 
Sent: Mon, Jun 8, 2015 1:12 am
Subject: [OT] What the *&^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM


I use this email account almost exclusively for this Use List now; so I
haven't
recently given it to anyone, company or whatever.

Up until yesterday I
usually received 1 or 2 false SPAMS a day; typically
from Dunbarx's AOL account
or some other legitamate Use List user with an
AOL account.

Up until
yesterday I usually receved a single actual SPAM every couple
of
months.

Today I accessed this account and I had over 50!!! That's more
than the
TOTAL email SPAM I've ever received on this account.

What just
happened?
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