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  Jun 20 2009, 01:57 AM
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 Bleepin' Night Watchman  Group: Moderator Posts: 4,251 Joined: 5-December 05 From: The City of Saint Francis, by the western sea Member No.: 43,307  |
But, for the last few days I've seen an uptick of spams getting through to my Inbox. Not a whole lot, mind, but 3 or 4 a day. And they all seem to be very similar in content and style (this is a G-Rated forum, so I won't go into detail.) Has anyone else noticed this? Is there some new botnet out there? -------------------- |
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Jun 20 2009, 08:35 AM
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 Who is running the store? Group: Members Posts: 2,372 Joined: 26-November 05 From: Tampa Bay Area, Florida, USA Member No.: 42,052 |
Not happening to me, yet, on Yahoo, AA.
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Jun 20 2009, 11:36 AM
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Bleepin' Night Watchman Group: Moderator Posts: 4,251 Joined: 5-December 05 From: The City of Saint Francis, by the western sea Member No.: 43,307 |
*grumble*
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Jun 20 2009, 12:58 PM
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 Bleepin' Animinion Group: Site Admin Posts: 9,664 Joined: 18-August 05 From: Now On... Member No.: 31,547 |
There there, Andrew, it's tough being popular and a spam magent. But somebody has to do it.
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Jun 20 2009, 12:59 PM
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Bleepin' Night Watchman Group: Moderator Posts: 4,251 Joined: 5-December 05 From: The City of Saint Francis, by the western sea Member No.: 43,307 |
QUOTE(Animal @ Jun 20 2009, 10:58 AM)  There there, Andrew, it's tough being popular and a spam magent. But somebody has to do it. It's so hard being beautiful... 
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Jun 20 2009, 01:03 PM
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 Bleepin' WormBreath Group: Moderator Posts: 2,485 Joined: 28-January 06 From: Upstate NY Member No.: 52,789 |
Actually, about a month ago, my gmail account got slammed with spam. I marked them all as spam and after maybe 3 days, the spamming abuse stopped. Last week, it was the same thing all over again, spam central in my inbox. Again, I marked them as spam and a few days later they stopped (stopped meaning that the filter now catches them).
Just keep marking them as spam and hopefully they'll stop. That's about the only way I can can get rid of them. -------------------- War produces veterans, wounded both physically and mentally. They have sacrificed for us.....and it is now our job to help these veterans, as they have already helped us in ways we will never know, in ways that we cannot fathom, and in ways that we take granted every day.
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Jun 21 2009, 11:22 PM
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QUOTE(Amazing Andrew @ Jun 20 2009, 07:59 PM) QUOTE(Animal @ Jun 20 2009, 10:58 AM) There there, Andrew, it's tough being popular and a spam magent. But somebody has to do it. It's so hard being beautiful... I also have a yahoo account and have to say that today was the first day in ages, I had more spam mails in inbox than normal mails. Plus the amount of spam was more today than it was the past weeks. -------------------- I will be scarce from mid July til end of October and from December til May. If you need to contact me or I havent replied to a topic of yours, please send a pm - "How did I get infected?" - "Safe-hex" - Member of UNITE -  |
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Jun 22 2009, 11:42 AM
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 Bleepin' Texan! Group: HJT Team Coach Posts: 13,829 Joined: 5-April 06 From: Planet Texas! Member No.: 62,846 |
Like you, Andrew, I've had this account forever......sbcglobal/Yahoo, and The last couple of months I've seen an increase in the SPAM in my inbox. Those idiotic Nigerian scam ones, and those that tell me my thing should be bigger.
 I don't even have one of those.  I don't know what the deal is, but I wish it would stop already.
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Jun 22 2009, 12:39 PM
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 To INSANITY and BEYOND !! Group: Moderator Posts: 21,869 Joined: 10-September 04 From: NJ USA Member No.: 2,608 |
Thanks for taking all my spam A.. What a guy!! I don't get any..
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Jun 22 2009, 12:49 PM
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Bleepin' Night Watchman Group: Moderator Posts: 4,251 Joined: 5-December 05 From: The City of Saint Francis, by the western sea Member No.: 43,307 |
*Amazing Andrew throws a bucket of spam at boopme
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Jun 30 2009, 10:29 AM
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 Senior Member Group: HJT Junior Classmen Posts: 367 Joined: 16-May 08 From: Indiana, USA Member No.: 209,408 |
Amazing to me how people still continue to fall for that stupid Nigerian Scam. I mean, can anyone on this vast message board honestly tell ME that they KNOW someone that's living in a million-dollar mansion in California next to Jennifer Aniston and Prince and made all their money from businessmen in Nigeria???
But honestly, I still havent noticed a difference in the amount of spam I'm getting in my Yahoo! account. It's always gotten flooded with spam, and likely will continue to, no matter what. -------------------- People do dumb things. And I'm not talking about paying too much for car insurance either.
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Jun 30 2009, 12:53 PM
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Bleepin' Night Watchman Group: Moderator Posts: 4,251 Joined: 5-December 05 From: The City of Saint Francis, by the western sea Member No.: 43,307 |
QUOTE(elmongo2 @ Jun 30 2009, 08:29 AM) Amazing to me how people still continue to fall for that stupid Nigerian Scam. I mean, can anyone on this vast message board honestly tell ME that they KNOW someone that's living in a million-dollar mansion in California next to Jennifer Aniston and Prince and made all their money from businessmen in Nigeria??? But honestly, I still havent noticed a difference in the amount of spam I'm getting in my Yahoo! account. It's always gotten flooded with spam, and likely will continue to, no matter what. I'll have you know that's EXACTLY how I made every dime I have! PS Spare change for the poor, buddy? 
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Jun 30 2009, 05:57 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 482 Joined: 9-June 09 From: Pittsburgh, PA Member No.: 340,397 |
Not only is yahoo getting inundated with spam, but every mail account is getting nailed.
Only thing keeping me sane is the endian with spam assassin and pyzor installed. Some still gets through but.... it's better than having my inbox full all the time. -------------------- Techextreme
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Jun 30 2009, 06:13 PM
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Indecisive Lurker Group: Members Posts: 1,238 Joined: 14-February 08 From: A galaxy far, far away... Member No.: 190,231 |
I set up a hotmail account for testing on spam and decided to put up the e-mail for something like a day at a site. Soon after, it started to get spammed like crazy....something like 14 a day at most.....I think on average about 9 things of spam a day. Other than that, my other three e-mail accounts haven't been spammed (my random account for the little stuff that I only need for little things like Soundsnap.com, my main account for stuff like this forum, family, and friends, and my school account that I have for school....which is owned by the school....so school related stuff only for there
 )......aaaaand shutting up. -------------------- Posting lurker of bleepingcomputer.com
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Jun 30 2009, 06:24 PM
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 Bleepin' Perennially Clueless!!! Group: Members Posts: 5,205 Joined: 1-December 07 From: England Member No.: 173,832 |
I never get any spam...
 but there again I never check mine. 
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