Email tracking

trace · Post by **trace** » 13/02/2007 - 9:19

Does someone now of a great email tracking program to track where all sh-t spam overall crappy ass emails come from?

I am so annoyed of them now I really want to spam back and break theire system!!!

I am so angry at spam so I don't know what to do!
Wish i could sue theire asses who spams!!!

Chris Abbott · Post by **Chris Abbott** » 13/02/2007 - 9:23

Er... no. Plus it's loads of people. A whole industry. With guns. Most of it now is sent through Botnets comprised of compromised domestic and business computers. If people kept their security up-to-date, the spam problem would be a lot less.

Chris

Vosla · Post by **Vosla** » 13/02/2007 - 17:35

And even then.
It's no prob to connect one of those free mailservers wih your own server and send spam with faked addresses.

I get at least 5 mails a week with MY EMAIL-ADDY as sender! Looking through the headers reveals that they are fakes, send by anonymous mailservers.

Unfortunately there are spam-kits (no joke!) out there that are idiot-proof and promise great profits for spamming email-servers, blogs, forums and the like. Thus your ordinary nitwit neighbour who barely knows how to switch on his rig could be a part-time spammer. :-/

xo · Post by xo » 13/02/2007 - 22:09

My gmail account has lots of spam, but most of it is filtered away. The worrying thing is perhaps the increased use of distorted images being used in spam mails, accompanied by some more or less gibberish or out of context text that has nothing to do with the commercial image.

My BlueSky · Post by **C64GLeN** » 13/02/2007 - 22:16

Gmail is great for spam I get about 2000-3000 spam message a month (I've a lot of email accounts redirected to the one gmail) and only a handful get through.

Analog-X64 · Post by **Analog-X64** » 14/02/2007 - 1:43

I get no Spam on my GMAIL having said that. I dont give out my Gmail much.

Post by **LMan** » 14/02/2007 - 7:21

The amount of spam I received on the eMail addresses I had published on the web became hilarious at one point, so I got myself a new eMail address and made sure I would publish it *nowhere*, and have an extra dead-end eMail address I can use for sign ups that require it. Ever since then I receive about 1-3 spams per day (without any spam filter active), and I can live with that.

trace · Post by **trace** » 14/02/2007 - 7:45

Maybe i should create a new email but then i have to send an email to all i know that i have a new email add. and that's not fun :/

beyond · Post by **beyond** » 14/02/2007 - 8:54

Get your own domain, give out email-addresses like amazonspam@yourdomain.co.uk when shopping on the net or writing in forums you don't trust (LMan can now see that I trust this site

)...

Then you can push all *spam@whatever.co.uk into a might-be-spam mail bin that you check once in a while. If the email address explodes with activity, kill it and its mail - and then you know where to correct the compromised email-address.

It's pretty easy and will cost you an email hotel's cost + gmail (free)

-Theo

xo · Post by xo » 14/02/2007 - 23:00

A hazzle to have multiple e-mail addresses, I'm too lazy for that. But I saw a somewhat neat little trick. Have two e-mail addresses, one that humans would not use and one that humans will use. If an email is sent to both the humanoid and spam (skeletoid;) address, exclude the mail from the humanoid address. Of course that only works in situations where you have your address picked up by spambots and they pick up both addresses.