Spam Email - help!

[clive francis]

Does anyone know how i can stop spam emails?

my ISP doesn't provide anything at the mail hub end and it is down to me.

i made the mistake of unsubscribing to a speculative email from a porn site and they have bombarded me with 3 to 5 emails a day plus all their friends!

I would love to hack their site and bring it down because they have ignored every single one (well 10 actually) emails requesting they do not send stuff to me, but reporting them for spamming will do as a start. :upset:

so anyone know how to do this?

 

[jepuskar]

Francis,

Doesn't your email software allow you to filter how certain domain names or let you set other kind of rules to block spammers?

 

[canuckdiver]

there used to be a program around called spamarrest

 

[Aquabella]

A friend of mine had this problem before, here's how he solved it...in his own words...

"Danged Spammers.
I made a big mistake once and listed my web site with a service that was a front for a ton of spammers.
I was getting hundreds of spam emails a day from them. Know what I did?
Heh, heh, since I was on DSL at the time I stopped deleting them and assembled them into a folder.
When I'd get spam, I'd reply with a "bomb". Yep, Kernal Kram would send them a huge-O file to their email address.
I had 1-2-3+ mega-bite emails to cram their email boxes. Took about 20-30 seconds to send them.
It was one hell of a war. I fell out of my chair many times making the sound of a toilet flushing when I click send.
Sure got me off their lists in a hurry.
There isn't anything more fun than spamming a spammer! It fills their inbox so they can't get emails! Plus it takes forever to open the "package" on their end.
Some replied, they got a double dose. One of these days I might go high speed again and bring out my Kernal's uniform and play again.
I was like poison to the spammers! LOL!
Quite legit, I was only replying to their email. "

 

[GeekDiver]

If you truly want to do something about spam your need to learn a bit about Spoofing, What it is and how spamers use it.

http://www.wiredpatrol.org/law/spam/spoofing.html

http://spam.abuse.net/bits/makeadifference.shtml

http://www.iss.net/security_center/advice/Underground/Hacking/Methods/Technical/Spoofing/default.htm

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1996-21.html

Hope this will help point you in a direction.

Geek

 

[SueMermaid]

I hate them, too, but I got one today that made it almost worth getting 30+ spams a day. The subject line said

"Suemermaid, is your hot dog too small"?


:laugh:

 

[canuckdiver]

SueMermaid once bubbled...


"Suemermaid, is your hot dog too small"?

LOL, hmmm, spam must be an Oscar Meyer product.....

 

[GeekDiver]

I think some may not understand the true nature of spam and why people get away with it. The trick is to find out where it really came from. Then send the admin of that system an email.

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/03/circuits/howitworks/26email.html

http://combat.uxn.com/

 

[AzAtty]

As you've realized, your mistake was hitting the "unsubscribe" option on the orginal message. That just tells a spammer that they have a good address, and you've reconfirmed that fact with every one of the ten emails you've sent them. Yes, they're bastards.

It sounds like you're in the damage control mode at this point, so I'd suggest getting a commercially-available spam blocker. Go to download.com and look for one. AFAIK, spam blockers let you set which domain names/IP addresses/senders to block.

If you don't like that option, you can change your e-mail address. Personally, I have two or three different spam traps on Hotmail.

I read about one approach to blocking a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Attack that might have some application here. A DDOS is where a bunch of computers (usually "zombies" that have been compromised by a hacker) send multiple requests to a web server using spoofed IPs. The server can't respond to all the requests, and is effectively flooded offline. The guy who got flooded wrote a "filter" for his server that (1) read the IP from the incoming packet; (2) sent an outbound packet to the IP address; and (3) if the destination did not "respond", the filter software didn't allow the inbound request to be filled. So when the spoofers started flooding the server, their requests were put in a holding queue while the legitimate requests were processed.

Now, I suppose that someone could apply the same concept to e-mail. Instead of just filtering certain IP addresses or domain names or sender names, a filter could read the origination IP, query it, and if it didn't get a response, file the message under the "Spam" category. Maybe NetDoc can write the filter program for us...

 

[clive francis]

GeekDiver once bubbled...
I think some may not understand the true nature of spam and why people get away with it. The trick is to find out where it really came from. Then send the admin of that system an email.

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/03/circuits/howitworks/26email.html

http://combat.uxn.com/

thanks for that, i used the combat site found out who the isp was and sent a nice letter explaining my predicament and asked if they could help, so lets see what transpires.

we live in hope!