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Geek Culture / Possibly a spam e-mail?

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SikaSina Games
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Posted: 27th Mar 2008 20:40
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Quote: "First Company Veteran could be killerkane"

1.I'm not a retard
2.I don't go make spam sites or go to them
3.I don't know how to ship items on sites ive made
4.I would never send any of my fellow users spam
5.I hate spammers. They are d[:S]heads.

Is that enough?

Look for X10~photon on Halo: Combat Evolved mostly in mod areas.

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IanM
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Posted: 27th Mar 2008 20:41
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Quote: "And idiots think this is related to something"

It wasn't a spambot, because they send to individual addresses. This was one email sent to many people all at once, or didn't you read that far into the first post?

Unfortunately, it was probably from a throw-away gmail account, so we'll never really know who it was

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White Fang 12
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Posted: 27th Mar 2008 20:51
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I wasn't trying to insult you First Company Veteran i'm just trying to make the point that anyone could be killerKane i'm not saying i think you are because i think you're not, I sorry for any remarks that have angry or upset you that i have made

I'm a noob help will be accepted
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SikaSina Games
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Posted: 28th Mar 2008 23:24
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Ok, sorry

Look for X10~photon on Halo: Combat Evolved mostly in mod areas.

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Xenocythe
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Posted: 29th Mar 2008 03:57
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With all this spam coming in these days, who cares? I don't see why anyone should make a big deal out of this, which in return only gives the spammer guy what he wanted; attention. Forget about it.

3.11 We do not tolerate posts made for the purpose of putting down another forum member, group of members, religion, our company, our staff or any of our moderators, past or present.
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Ed222
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Posted: 29th Mar 2008 04:22
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Hey I no longer have spam! YAY I love you hotmail blocked sender list

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bitJericho
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Posted: 29th Mar 2008 06:32
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Quote: "I love you hotmail blocked sender list"


How on earth do you block senders you don't even know about?

Google spam blocker all the way I get 1 or two spam a month, tops.


Hurray for teh logd!
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Benjamin
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Posted: 29th Mar 2008 09:59
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I rarely get spam in my Hotmail inbox, the majority of it goes straight to the spam folder.

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5867Dude
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Posted: 29th Mar 2008 10:52
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Quote: "Google spam blocker all the way I get 1 or two spam a month, tops."

I don't even get any spam leeked through!


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Ed222
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Posted: 29th Mar 2008 18:43
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Quote: "How on earth do you block senders you don't even know about?"


they send you the spam e-mail once then you mark them as unsafe and from there all the e-mail from the same guy is blocked aka deleted before it reaches my inbox

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Benjamin
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Posted: 29th Mar 2008 18:57 Edited at: 29th Mar 2008 18:58
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Quote: "then you mark them as unsafe"

By what criteria? They use a different spoofed address and subject line a lot of the time.

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bitJericho
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Posted: 29th Mar 2008 18:59
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Right, but most spammers don't use the same email address


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Ed222
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Posted: 29th Mar 2008 19:24 Edited at: 29th Mar 2008 19:25
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yeah but don't you think they'll get tired of making new e-mail addresses? I'm sure the spammer won't change his e-mail because one of his victims decided to block him.
[edit] and if it was a spam bot you would just do the same thing

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Benjamin
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Posted: 29th Mar 2008 19:27
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Quote: "yeah but don't you think they'll get tired of making new e-mail addresses?"

Most of them probably use randomly generated addresses, so no.

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Ed222
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Posted: 29th Mar 2008 19:28
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well I don't think this guy was a real spammer more of a kiddie spammer

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Jeku
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Posted: 29th Mar 2008 19:37
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I'd suggest using POPFile, found at Sourceforge.net.

It learns what *kinds* of emails are spam, and gets smarter with each day. Everytime a spam message gets through, mark it as spam, and it scans the words and builds a giant lookup table of words and their likelihood of being spam or not. You can also setup other categories, i.e. business, TGC, etc. It runs on top of most mail clients (Thunderbird, Eudora, Outlook Express, etc.)

It's pretty amazing, actually.


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5867Dude
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Posted: 30th Mar 2008 16:15
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Whats annoying about the spam I get is that they are from DIFFRENT email address and also they use leet. I keep getting emails about OEM software and they are either
Cheap OEM software. Come to blah blah blah
OR
Ch3ap O3M Softwar3. Com3 2 blah blah blah


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SikaSina Games
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Posted: 1st Apr 2008 22:48
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;( Another bloody paypal spam

Look for X10~photon on Halo: Combat Evolved mostly in mod areas.

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Ed222
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2008 00:20 Edited at: 2nd Apr 2008 00:21
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your lucky you can read what it says all mine is is a bunch of charcter like this #^$^&%^&*&(*@$%%*(*%FfQ#5^^*^& and in the letter source is E1-D5-Y8-D7 some thing like that and as for who it was for edjfber@gmail.com hmmm unless hotmail has sunddly partnered up with google I think that this is the worst spam mail I've ever got the next time they spam me I'll report it to what ever e-mail provider their mailing from

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Tom J
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2008 11:33
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My spam is all in Russian
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Michael P
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2008 13:52 Edited at: 3rd Apr 2008 15:09
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Have a look at the attached screenshot. Every month, I get roughly 2500-3000 spam emails Although, it does make me feel popular
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da power pwnerer
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2008 14:25
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I beat all of you with spam, at around 1300 spam messages a day



-Dan


http://Freewebs.com/noobisoft
Come to Noobisoft's website today!
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Michael P
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2008 14:34
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Quote: "I beat all of you with spam, at around 1300 spam messages a day"


Too much porn!
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BatVink
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2008 15:10
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Michael P, attachment deleted. We really don't need to see those subjects.
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5867Dude
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2008 18:14
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Quote: "I beat all of you with spam, at around 1300 spam messages a day "

Good job spam blocking tools exist. Otherwise your inbox would be FULLED with spam.


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Agent Dink
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2008 19:01
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I find that Juno.com seems to block spam really really well if you can put up with a 1 gig email inbox limit.

MISoft Studios - Silver-Dawn

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tha_rami
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2008 20:22
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My G-mail blocks between 700 and 1000 spam-mails per week. I even installed a Greasemonkey script (yeah, I got that thing Jess kept talking about) to not see the number of Spam in my G-mail, as it's utterly annoying.


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kaedroho
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2008 20:27
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ive been getting this spam too. maybe its not even a member of this forum because anyone from the public can view it.


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Ed222
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Posted: 4th Apr 2008 22:28 Edited at: 4th Apr 2008 22:34
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Quote: "public can view it."
if you search google or live you can find the e-mail you entered for public fourms thats manily the reason i removed my e-mail

[edit] hey look I found it here

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kaedroho
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Posted: 6th Apr 2008 19:05
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Thats suprising, ive signed up to loads of forums and only this one comes up.


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BioFox Steve
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Posted: 6th Apr 2008 19:19
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The problem is the use of mailto: links for email. Most spambots just look for these links and use them to harvest emails. Most sites by now know to use a mail form with a captcha that doesn't reveal the email stuff is being sent to. Basically, this makes it so bots cant harvest emails, nor can they send them through the form without having a human do the captcha, which dramatically sows down the rate at which spams can be sent. It would be great if these forums changed away from mailto links, as mailto links really re the reason you all get so much spam, and the reason I havent posted my email.

Steve
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