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Spam hall of shame
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ajax
Executive Member
Two of them spammed me. I warned them that they will appear on the list and now they do! hehe
Datura
Captain Faptastic
How much of a deterrent are these types of lists? These guys know they are spamming and are fully aware that the majority of the online community HATES spam yet they keep doing it because they know that there are enough morons out there to reach with their spamming in order to make money.
DigitalSoldier
Honorary Master
we always get spam from these 2 companies.
Datura
Captain Faptastic
You see, I don't think these companies give a rat's nether regions. It brings in the moolah.
stcac980
Active Member
Flight Centre
Hi...
If your planning a trip anywhere with flight centre, don't give them your email. Booked a trip to London last year, since my return I get an annoying monthly mail from them. I agree once a month is manageable but I have followed there "unsubscribe" link 7 times. This is were I declare a gentle spammer as they do not honour my unsubscribe request.
Hi...
If your planning a trip anywhere with flight centre, don't give them your email. Booked a trip to London last year, since my return I get an annoying monthly mail from them. I agree once a month is manageable but I have followed there "unsubscribe" link 7 times. This is were I declare a gentle spammer as they do not honour my unsubscribe request.
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These guys simply don't care. I've send Dynamic Seminars a request to ask where they got my details plus to be removed from their list. They apparently get details from Matrix Marketing. But Brian Jude has not stopped spamming me, luckily Google's spamblocker works well. We need legal action with consequences.
I've also created a dns blacklist containing the mailservers he sends from, bl.dewet.org.za. Feel free to use it in your mailserver or programs like MailWasher.
I've also created a dns blacklist containing the mailservers he sends from, bl.dewet.org.za. Feel free to use it in your mailserver or programs like MailWasher.
kilos
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And never give your mobile number too, all private number calls goto my REJECT button
Seems like a rehash of a very old article...i know the list is "updated"
but how bout some new content please
Like what action is taken against the spammers?
You must be quite frustrated hey?
Veroland
Executive Member
Dynamic Seminars drive me up the wall sometimes with all the spam I get from them.
MyWorld
Executive Member
Gmail does wonders with all these spammers, I have only received one spam letter that slipped through the security in ages.
Just flag it with Google and it will get blocked on all of gmail.
Just flag it with Google and it will get blocked on all of gmail.
Spammers put Spanners in our work
From an ISP perspective spam cause major problems for you the subscriber and affects the cost of your Internet access. ISP's block anything between 74% and 95% of all incoming mail due to spam and viruses - make the calculations and bandwidth cost just to facilitate this.
Statistically 0.1% success is achieved by spammers (including those explicit ones), so they make one sale for every 1000 mails sent, that makes a thousand on every million mails.
What about cellphone spam? and spam in our private mailboxes?
My opinion states the digital lifestyle community must arise and creatively and spontaneously deals with this spammers, legislation just won't do it, neither a police force.
From an ISP perspective spam cause major problems for you the subscriber and affects the cost of your Internet access. ISP's block anything between 74% and 95% of all incoming mail due to spam and viruses - make the calculations and bandwidth cost just to facilitate this.
Statistically 0.1% success is achieved by spammers (including those explicit ones), so they make one sale for every 1000 mails sent, that makes a thousand on every million mails.
What about cellphone spam? and spam in our private mailboxes?
My opinion states the digital lifestyle community must arise and creatively and spontaneously deals with this spammers, legislation just won't do it, neither a police force.
The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
I would like to spam a spammer with pamphlets and assorted junk mail, including readers digest sweepstakes junk.
RoganDawes
Expert Member
I got a lot of messages from SA Webs yesterday, to "addresses" which are actually message ids. e.g. 40a318e2.1000002<AT>example.com
Phoned them to complain, they didn't seem to care much. Think I might have to set up some "appointments" with them if they do it again.
Phoned them to complain, they didn't seem to care much. Think I might have to set up some "appointments" with them if they do it again.
MyWorld
Executive Member
SMS spam, I'm lucky that I have not received any yet, I just refuse to give my cell number, even to the banks, they do not need to have it.
Junk mail, I just RTS all of them. It's their money wasted, not mine. I think I'll do what someone else did and get me some adverts and coupons, put it in the envelope provided by them and send it to them, stating that I think they should take advantage of these great specials. Direct Access is my first target for this. No matter where I move to, they always seem to find my postal address.
I stick a note in the reply envelope stating something like this:
What I actually wanted to say: I think this spam hall of shame could actually encourage spammers, see who can get to the top of the list and stay there.
What I actually wanted to say: I think this spam hall of shame could actually encourage spammers, see who can get to the top of the list and stay there.
