getting Spammed to hell

[Ali-v-8]

This company has sent me 12 emails every day now ranking-improvement dot com.
Anyone else getting this.

[MartBrooks]

I wrote a little article on reducing the amount of junk email you get just yesterday.

http://blog.hinterlands.org/2010/08/how-to-get-less-junk-email/

[directmarketingadvice]

This company has sent me 12 emails every day now ranking-improvement dot com.
Anyone else getting this.

I've been getting tons of spam from SEO companies for the last few weeks.

I'm guessing it's Asian companies. I just delete them.

Steve

[carclaims]

I don't get anything from that company but others send tons of emails to me :(

[Bruceflea]

This company has sent me 12 emails every day now ranking-improvement dot com.
Anyone else getting this.

i'm getting this too but only the 3rd day for me lol.

[Ali-v-8]

They keep coming and when i block they come in gmail. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggg ggggggggggg

[franchiseshop]

Nothing through from them but certainly an increase in India based "SEO" companies touting their services.

They email me at all the usual addresses despite most of them not being active. enquiries@ info@ advertising@ mail@ etc.. Most annoying.

I have a feeling it's only going to get worse over the next 12 months.

[harryboon]

This company has sent me 12 emails every day now ranking-improvement dot com.
Anyone else getting this.

They are clearly a very good company, honest and up standing - maybe you could learn something from them Ali lol :D

ps domain only two months old, no links - just standard Indian spam!

[Ali-v-8]

Now Now harry, I will tell your wife where you are hiding lol :D

They are clearly a very good company, honest and up standing - maybe you could learn something from them Ali lol :D

ps domain only two months old, no links - just standard Indian spam!

[harryboon]

Now Now harry, I will tell your wife where you are hiding lol :D

Don't even go there, I am still in so much trouble, banned from sailing today as a punishment :mad: not happy!

[Scootek]

Try MessageLabs. It does cost. In my experience, it's probably the best. If you spend 15 minutes a day on spam, then it will easily pay for itself. It's a thought.

[mobyme]

I just use good old SpamBayes in Outlook. They can send me as much of their crap as they want; I never get to see it.

[bdw]

I also use Spambayes and it is a wonderful (free) tool. With Spambayes spam is no more than a minor irritation to me.

Try it, you'll like it!

[awebapart.com]

A lot of the solutions discussed here are cures after you receive spam rather than preventing spam in the first place. The way you prevent spam in the first place is to minimise the chance of getting on the spammer's mailing list.

I wrote a prevent spam (http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=298096) post here a few years ago discussing ways to do this.

[bdw]

No, they are not cures, they are just ways of helping to deal with it. ;)

If you mail someone with an email address or run a business where you have to tell people your email address then there is no sure way of preventing spam. There have been open discussions in this forum about the use of email lists, which are compiled without the knowledge of those listed. The problem is that too many people think this is acceptable so there are no cures.

What we need is some sort of legislation that would prevent it. How about charging for each email and donating the proceeds to charity? I probably only send on average about 50 or 60 emails a day. At a penny an email that's manageable. The people who send out spam sometimes send out millions each. That is not manageable.

Alternatively, why not force ISPs to put a throttle on the number of emails that anyone can send out per day? Those who were not spammers but who had a genuine need to exceed this could apply for a licence to do so. If they abused it their licence could be revoked. :)

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[Ali-v-8]

Now awebapart has hit the nail on the head.

How the hell did they get my email in the first place.

[Bruceflea]

Now awebapart has hit the nail on the head.

How the hell did they get my email in the first place.

i'm guessing they probably have used some email harvesting software and taken it from the likes of UKBF etc.

the amount of spam i get is incredible but i guess its my own fault as i displayed my email address. lesson to be learnt for myself lol

[bdw]

Amongst other things, they use email harvesting software to crawl the Internet looking for email addresses.

They also have other ways of doing this. How many of you have received "funnies" or images from unsuspecting mates with a list of 50 or 100 people on them? These lists get forwarded to a massive amount of people including spammers.

[awebapart.com]

there is no sure way of preventing spam
There is no sure way of preventing spam, but if you broadcast your email address publicly on a website, in a way that is extremely simple for spam bots to farm, extract and place on their mailing lists, then you are as near as dammit ensuring that you will be spammed.

No, they are not cures, they are just ways of helping to deal with it. ;)
When I say cures I'm not really saying they are ideal cures, I'm trying to say that prevention is better than cure, being proactive rather than reactive.

Spam filters cures in any shape or form have their own issues too, and aggressive filtering can prevent good emails getting through. But the other side effect of not worrying about prevention, just assuming that you will get on spam lists, and just focussing on cures, is that once you are on spammers emailing lists, the spammers will also use your email address as the from part of the email. So it looks like the spam is coming from you.

It is for these reasons that I think we all should do as much as possible to minimise the chance of getting on spammers mailing lists in the first place.

[awebapart.com]

i'm guessing they probably have used some email harvesting software and taken it from the likes of UKBF etc.

the amount of spam i get is incredible but i guess its my own fault as i displayed my email address. lesson to be learnt for myself lol
Yes, you are making it extremely easy for the spammers, not only with your email addresses on your website but also with your email address in your signature in this forum.

If you google for your email address in double quotes, you will see other websites where you have made your email address easy to harvest for the spammers.

[MartBrooks]

I just use good old SpamBayes in Outlook. They can send me as much of their crap as they want; I never get to see it.

Sorting mail once it arrives in your mailbox is, in my opinion, the wrong solution. Arranging matters so that the spam never gets there in the first place is the preferable way of doing things.

[bdw]

Sorting mail once it arrives in your mailbox is, in my opinion, the wrong solution. Arranging matters so that the spam never gets there in the first place is the preferable way of doing things.
Of course it is and that goes without saying but as has already been mentioned how can anyone ever guarantee that? You do not have to publish your email address online. If you email anyone at anytime you are running the risk of your address falling into the wrong hands.

[MartBrooks]

Of course it is and that goes without saying but as has already been mentioned how can anyone ever guarantee that? You do not have to publish your email address online. If you email anyone at anytime you are running the risk of your address falling into the wrong hands.

My personal and business email addresses are not secret. I use them on forums and mailing lists most of which are publically viewable. My personal address turned 11 years old this year, my business ones are about 8.

I get perhaps 2-3 spam messages per month. Obfuscation is not really going to help you here.

[bdw]

I am not questioning your integrity but I find that very hard to believe. Just about the whole world has a spam problem and you know how to fix it? If you let me into the secret I will make both of us millionaires within 6 months. ;)

AFAIK there is no spam filtering system that would be that effective and any filtering system requires a junk email or quarantine folder. Messages that go in there are still spam that you have received. I think all you have probably done is deal with it (as I do with my free version of Spambayes). :cool:

[KM-Tiger]

AFAIK there is no spam filtering system that would be that effective ...

Yes, there is. That's about the level of Spam that I get. I now always read those few with some interest, to see how they got through and where they came from. Perhaps the pills from those that do get through will work!

But probably like MartBrooks I run my own mailservers, which are ruthless in rejecting likely Spam. Just checked the logs - 99 rejected so far today.

[MartBrooks]

I am not questioning your integrity but I find that very hard to believe.

No offence taken, and I entirely respect your beliefs.

We have happy paying customers that renew year after year. We're doing something right.

[mobyme]

Sorting mail once it arrives in your mailbox is, in my opinion, the wrong solution. Arranging matters so that the spam never gets there in the first place is the preferable way of doing things.

Your probably right; but I have better things to do with my life. By using SpamBayes I never get to see their drivel so sending me spam is pointless.