Axxess email spam

[keng]

Don't know if anyone else has been getting a ton of investment spam through their mail. It's driving me nuts. Most of the stuff is in images with a totally unrelated subject and never from the same senders. Must get at least a dozen every day.

 

[Nod]

The same here. Luckily Thunderbird can learn what is spam, and delete it for me.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Same here. It just is not restricted to an specific IPS - they all get the same unwanted junk.

 

[Telkomhater]

It is not all ISP's. I have a Webafrica address, a Polka address and an Axxess address. It is only with Axxess that I get those investment spams. I have just accepted that Axxess' SPAM filter is absolute rubbish.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

It is not all ISP's. I have a Webafrica address, a Polka address and an Axxess address. It is only with Axxess that I get those investment spams. I have just accepted that Axxess' SPAM filter is absolute rubbish.

It also depends on what the ISP uses for spam filtering.

Some filters work well, Symantec Mail Security (which we use) works very well.

Personally, I would prefer to have a 95% success rate (letting through all legit mails with one or two spammies) rather than having a 100% success rate and a few legit mails blocked as well.

But, in general, a pox on all spammers!

 

[enx]

yup

yup I get "this stock buy have invest great call price cialis viagra" all day long...its ok though...axxess arent bad guys.

 

[NoRulez]

I use Mailwasher Pro on all my mail, bouncing unwanted spam and extra large mails and reporting to spamcop. Most of those mails are spoofed anyway, but the provider gets spamlisted, so the spammer needs to find another source after a while.
Nothing like that "cherry" feeling in the butt when bouncing large bitmap images to the sender - especially if they know how to convert to jpeg!
Let them use their own bandwidth...

 

[RSnow]

Which would be great if the return address actually had anything whatsoever to do with the actual sender of the email. I don't bother bouncing spam emails, because all you're doing is increasing the problem by sending even more spam around, using up everyone's bandwidth, and almost certainly not affecting the actual sender of the spam anyway. About the best you can do is get the sever they're sending from blacklisted, and force them to find another one. Ah well.