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Hit Hard by Spammers

Sun, 2006-05-28 01:35 — Phasers

After BlueFrog was attacked I found my email flooded with more spam and a warning to stop using the service. They (the spammers) are now Spoofing my email address. Has anyone else had this happen to them? Is there anything I can do to stop this other than changing my email address? Dam these retards are more then a nuisance. Spammers now Spoofers. I hope they all get genital warts......in their mouths.

Comments

Mon, 2006-06-19 09:45 — VeryFunny

Spoofers

What you have there is a "Joe Job". Joe Jobbing's impact can be lessened by the addition of an SPF (Sender Permitted Framework) DNS entry for your domain name (or if you have an ISP address, they should be doing it already). Take a look at: http://www.openspf.org/ for details

Wed, 2006-06-07 23:22 — scrapiron

blue frog that went belly up :)

Well really it was a good ride while it lasted nad I really don't have any complants about what they tried to do I guess they just didnt think it out properly. IN the mean time Im using MAil washer and Spam cop to handle the residual crap I get from the "spoofers that went along for the ride.
so I'll hang in here wif the Black Frog and hope for the best hey at least there trying to help and thats good. . . .

Scrapiron

Fri, 2006-06-09 01:19 — roadrunn3rr

MMmmmm...interestingly enough but...........

scrapiron wrote:
Well really it was a good ride while it lasted nad I really don't have any complants about what they tried to do I guess they just didnt think it out properly. IN the mean time Im using MAil washer and Spam cop to handle the residual crap I get from the "spoofers that went along for the ride.
so I'll hang in here wif the Black Frog and hope for the best hey at least there trying to help and thats good. . . .

Scrapiron


"Some see the glass as half~full, and some see the glass as half~empty, But I say, 'The glass is too GOD D#@N BIG~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!!!"

Correct me if I'm wrong but, I was under the impression that the name sake "Blue Frog" was a 'copy-righted title as well as all titles that included every color of frog available on the Interenet. All have been registered as trade marks to another company. And thats why Blue frog went belly up. Now I now it seems far fetched because something as simple as changing your name could't its self alone break a company. I hope I was understood here, he he he .!!!!!!!!!
Now I will too, stick with this same group and get involved if they approve. I had nothing but good results with the software because we all know that it is difficult to write code for software that can intergrate with web-mail server and be very effective at it also. Something like outlook and Eurdura, and other forms of OS based Email software is rather simpler to code out , I am onl;y guessing at that, I can only assume that it is. These people are on to somethiong and I want to be there to follow it all the way through. Roadrunn3rr "The Original"

Thu, 2006-09-07 12:00 — Ehm

Hardly.

roadrunn3rr wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong but, I was under the impression that the name sake "Blue Frog" was a 'copy-righted title as well as all titles that included every color of frog available on the Interenet. All have been registered as trade marks to another company. And thats why Blue frog went belly up.

Erm, no, not at all. Blue security shut down because of the pressure put on them (and others) by the spammers.

Thu, 2006-06-01 20:45 — MrEman

Every Day

I've been getting loads of returned mail DAILY since the beginning of the attacks. The spammers are still using my e-mail address as a spoofed from address when sending spam to their lists. Overall spam in my Yahoo Bulk folder has doubled. Blue Frog exascerbated the problem, then just packed up and left. Now most of us are worse off than when we started. I am optomistic that this new Okopipi project can pick up the concept and implement it even better.

Mon, 2006-06-05 18:00 — Calvyn

Somedays are better than others...

On the first few days after the attack I found myself with several hundred bounced message in my inbox. Having been right in the middle of rebuilding my machine it was a really bad time to have to deal with all that. Luckily after a few days it subsided. Now that I'm a member of SpamCop I find myself reporting spam supposedly sent by me along with my other solicitations for prescription drugs and mortgage refinances... It takes about an hour out of my day but I find it enjoyable. Ain't it fun? Can't wait to pay PharmaMaster back..

Thu, 2006-06-01 17:29 — sonicjosh

i just dont want it

i have yahoo mail and the spam filter does great but still i dont want junk flowing into my "bulk" folder beacause occasionaly something i want ends up in there not very often but still....

now every day i get spam and its all the same thing, one picture link for things like generic viagra (dont they want me to buy that after all im only 14) and the worse part is i cant unsubscribe beacause theres no unsubscribe link i know blue frog helped so i cant wait for this
i want to be able to do at least something than just take it.

Tue, 2006-06-06 11:56 — Jlew

If it were up to me...

I would just DOS spammers (and compinies who use spammers who don't allow opt-out!) But then we would be sinking to their level, the way I see it, if they don't want to play by the rules, why should we? lol I only wish

Fri, 2006-06-02 16:38 — Alan Brunsdon

Don't click unsubscribe links

Lucky for you there were no unsubscribe links or you would have clicked them and would be getting 10 times as much spam as you are already getting.

If it's a genuine newsletter you signed up to but got bored with then fine, click the unsubscribe link, but NEVER unsubscribe from anything you did not subscribe to in the first place.

They just use those links to confirm your email address is genuine.

Tue, 2006-06-20 05:50 — fungus_b

"Unsubscribe" links

I'm not sure that clicking an unsubscribe link makes things worse.

I've got addresses that were posted excatly *once* on Usenet, four or five years ago, and they get just as much spam as "active" addresses.

Maybe the "unsubscribe" links let the spammers know what's getting past the filters, but I don't think you'll get *more* spam because you clicked one (let's face it, spammers are alreay sending as much spam as they possibly can).

Further, programs like spam vampire are useless unless you include your email address. What's the point in generating a million hits on a spam site if you don't let them know who's doing it?

Tue, 2006-06-06 11:58 — Jlew

Thats true,

I think i have only come accross one legit unsubscribe. I like to look at that stuff, just to see what their doing!

You can usually tell by looking at the links.... i like to even screw around with the link url!

Mon, 2006-05-29 15:23 — CoreyBstn

I actually got a decrease

I started getting the messages that I will get slammed if I continued to use Bluefrog. I didn't...unfortunately it is slowly starting again. I am now getting 3-4 spams a day. I have been going to the advertised links and opting out and sending a nasty...and I mean nasty... letter to the site telling them I don't appreciate their spam and will report them immediately as I am on the no spam registry. Not that I think that will do any good, but I am so sick and tired of their e-mails. The sad thing is, no one, other than Bluefrog, actually tried to do anything about it.

I have Comcast..and not only is the service way overpriced, but for the money you get nothing. Cripes, even Yahoo and Gmail stop spam better than they do. They want you to send your spam to an address at Comcast...and I can tell you, after MONTHS of sending them the requested e-mails...Nothing was ever done. Same ads, same links, same e-mails, NOTHING. Comcast is the world's WORST ISP. But, my choice is them or dial up...guess who wins.

Mon, 2006-05-29 20:40 — sterken

I can't say I've noticed

I can't say I've noticed less spam, however I have received a lot of spam with attachments lately.

Sun, 2006-05-28 16:48 — deronde

yup

same here, now i'm bombarded with mailer-daemon and spam-control requests.. all for some damn university degree program.

Mon, 2006-05-29 06:42 — shekerra

I have seen far more spam too

I started blocking it at the server using Box trapper (enable in WHM) - it works very well. If you host via shared host just ask your hosting service provider if the option is available via cpanel. Personally I think that hosting services and ISP's need to start dropping spam at the server.

In my Gmail account spam has kicked up considerably since mid May - sometimes hundreds of spams per day (well over the average of 13-25)

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Tue, 2006-05-30 07:06 — gregb50

Spam Increase

I've done nothing recently but have noticed a general increase in spam. Roll on black frog and thanks for the cpanel tip - Box Trapper seems a bit of a last resort as it does upset people who then have to authenticate, maybe spamassasin will do until black frog is up. Greg

Wed, 2006-06-07 17:04 — Cyrus Jones

Increase in Spam

Google Groups:
http://groups.google.com/group/okopipi-discuss/browse_thread/thread/d140e5405acb0823/b77603eed6cb19c2#b77603eed6cb19c2

LET OKOPIPI BE THE TURNING POINT FOR SPAM!!!!

Tue, 2006-05-30 09:25 — Nathan

Try greylisting

That seems to knock down spam to an almost manageable number (here). That together combined with blacklists and something like spamassassinn should help.

Fri, 2006-06-09 09:08 — robi

SpamCannibal

While greylisting is ok, setting up your MTA to actually do something other than shuffle mail is the way to go. With postfix for example, once can enable at least 10 simple sanity checks that stop 90% or stupid spam.
I'd rather read about it in my log summaries than read spam emails and move them to my spam folder, etc.
Another interesting technique is to tarpit the spamming servers, so that they can't send you the spam, yet they keep trying..
That's what SpamCannibal does.. more here...

This will ultimatly piss off the spammers since their servers get crippled if they send you spam. Technically only a few high traffic sinkholes are needed to do this. But the more the merrier.. just don't expect anti-spam companies to go for this as they loose bussiness.

-- Rob

Sat, 2006-06-10 07:54 — killpharm

Spamcannibal blurb sounds

Spamcannibal blurb sounds good, making the senders hang in limbo while the receiver gets to save more bandwidth than before is always good, I wish I could test it.

--
PharmaMaster is a criminal. Regulation of the internet prevents the majority (angry users) from kicking the arse of the minority (millionaire spammers).

Wed, 2006-07-05 20:28 — oldiron

Stolen address

I was a Blue Frog "Member" and some spamer harvested my address and is using it as a phoney from. It is illeagal under the CAN-SPAM act but we know how effective that was. I have an inqurey in to the FTC requesting a reporting address for this activity but I'm not holding my breath waiting for a reply.

AS for the legalitys of this project....well we know how the spamers respect the law. Besides leagal where? North Korea, Romania, Nigeia or any of the other countrys where the spamers/phishers are opperating from? Please we need a beta SOON!

Thu, 2006-07-06 10:48 — meathead

Internet Sanctions

I don't understand why sanctions (Network Sanctions) can't be put in place against countries that do not want to help stop the illegal activities going on via that country's network. Does anyone have any feedback on this? I assume its due to the complexity of the world's network that doesn't allow this to happen.