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sally_in_wales
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Joined: 06 Mar 2005
Posts: 20809
Location: sunny wales

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 06 1:47 pm Post subject: Latest spam trends?
Seem to be getting a vast amount of spam mail allegedly claiming to be 'undeliverable mail' at the moment. Is it hitting everyone or is it just me?

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28248
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 06 1:52 pm Post subject:
floods here, you name it I got it. degrees, viagra, 50 foot penises, lottery wins, viruses, stock alerts (these are the main offenders), phishing scams, 419 scams...

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46340
Location: yes

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 06 1:55 pm Post subject:
as clean as clean can be

Rosa

Joined: 10 Sep 2006
Posts: 387
Location: Hampshire

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 06 2:19 pm Post subject:
Yes, for the last couple of weeks the "undeliverable mail" has flooded in - plus the usual rubbish.

Jb

Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 7761
Location: 91� N

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 06 2:24 pm Post subject:
Vast quantities of undeliverables here as well but that's to a domain and very little to my 'real' address.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45698
Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 06 2:33 pm Post subject:
I'm getting increasingly perverted titles, just got "double stuffed woman"

Silas

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 6848
Location: Staffordshire

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 06 2:49 pm Post subject:
Is that a recepie?

Gervase

Joined: 17 Nov 2004
Posts: 8655

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 06 2:52 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

I'm getting increasingly perverted titles, just got "double stuffed woman"

Isn't that one of HFW's recipes that he keeps doing on the telly?

2steps

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 5349
Location: Surrey

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 06 3:20 pm Post subject:
no undeliverables here but been getting loads of spam supossidly from various banks

High Green Farm

Joined: 30 Nov 2004
Posts: 349
Location: Mid-Suffolk

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 06 7:52 pm Post subject:

I'd been getting the usual amount of "do you want a larger p***s" emails, plus viagra, and in the last two weeks I've suddenly started to get a load of pretty disgusting stuff - 14 overnight.

I've just changed my email options with 1and1 to use IMAP rather than POP3, so I can use their anti-spam tool more effectively. I also have email forwarded to my blackberry, but unfortunately all the spam gets through on that....any ideas how to limit that?

Bernie66

Joined: 14 Jan 2005
Posts: 13967
Location: Eastoft

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 06 8:08 pm Post subject:
Naff all, google email address here

MrsWW

Joined: 06 Jun 2006
Posts: 339
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 06 8:37 pm Post subject:
Same here - loads of st - usually download about 40 e-mails per day - 10 of which are proper ones from peeps I know or those who I expect to get e-mails from, the rest being total crap from various people. If I was certain it wouldn't infect my puter: to the one that says "you want a 40 inch p*s?", I'd be tempted to respond by saying "actually NO, cos my Hubbie's got a 60 inch one!" LOL

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46340
Location: yes

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 06 8:38 pm Post subject:
why am i clean then ?

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 06 8:42 pm Post subject:
Largely depends where your email addy has been. My hotmail address gets just about no spam, my btinternet one gets nothing but 'cos it's on my web-page, and my 2downsizer one gets some 'cos it's been visible on here at some points.

Bernie66

Joined: 14 Jan 2005
Posts: 13967
Location: Eastoft

Posted: Fri Oct 06, 06 8:45 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

Largely depends where your email addy has been. My hotmail address gets just about no spam, my btinternet one gets nothing but 'cos it's on my web-page, and my 2downsizer one gets some 'cos it's been visible on here at some points.

So clearly myself and dpack do not stray from the path of the virtuous like you lot

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