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  1. 10 hours ago, petzl said:

    A credit card can be checked to see if it's valid without charging.
    I only go to Twitter if reading a news article and they give a link.
    Don't have a Twitter account,
    but since I read the $20 a month fee is for professional users like politicians/reporters
    Will check out  FB Purity I do have a FB page but it's full of a lot of scam ads even using PayPal?

    Ahh ok I see.

    10 hours ago, petzl said:

    Will check out  FB Purity I do have a FB page but it's full of a lot of scam ads even using PayPal?

    Do you mean their website or fb page?  I see zero scam ads on either page but then I use an ad blocker on firefox.  My Safari is so old the adblocker plugins don't work anymore hahaha so I saw the link i posted with zero adblocking.  That page just had geo-locating ads in Thai since I live here.  

    For FB I use firefox with adblocker and right now I see no scam ads on the FB page.  To remove all doubt, just google fb purity and go to their site.  This is their FB page. 

    There is no cost for the FB Purity add-on.  Unless you choose to donate to it of course.  

    FB Purity cleans up a lot of that on FB.  That said, FB changes the code of the site often making the job of the maker of FB Purity that much harder.  Sometimes I turn off the FB Purity add-on as the site might get a bit wonky at times.  It may be wonky on it's own or just the fact that my internet, altho fiber optic, seems to drop out regularly throughout the day.  At any rate FB Purity updates the add-on frequently as needed.

  2. 18 hours ago, petzl said:

    Free accounts without a working credit card check zero amount.

    Not sure what that means. 

     

    18 hours ago, petzl said:

    Twitter. the "head twit" is going to charge US$20 a month,
    should remove the bot accounts but doubt if people will pay that amount?

    All remains to be seen for now.  I have my 2 accounts and won't pay anything for either lol.  If it gets stupid w/ads then I'll decide then what to do.  The platforms would remain viable no matter what I suppose, but people will complain.  Ads were already getting annoying on twitter.  

    There are those who take matters into their own hands like FB Purity which will block all kinds of ads etc on Facebook.  Nice little ad-on for your browser if you use FB.

  3. On 10/29/2022 at 6:03 AM, petzl said:

    I only use Gmail do it's easy to mark spam as phishing, which should get their google cloud storage closed.
    Seems your spam is going through a network (not yours?)
    Received: from 127.0.0.1
    Mailhost configuration problem, identified internal IP as source
    But it came from 52.100.223.201 junk[AT]office365.microsoft[DOT]com  &  abuse[AT]messaging.microsoft[DOT]com
    Just send it to them from receiving email account.

    Added  junk[AT]office365.microsoft[DOT]com  &  abuse[AT]messaging.microsoft[DOT]com to address book.  

    a lot comes from this spammer for now.  

    Used to be google 6 months or so ago where one had to use the afore mentioned lame google reporting page as SC would only report internally.  

  4. On 10/27/2022 at 4:37 AM, petzl said:

    junk[AT]office365.microsoft[DOT]com  &  abuse[AT]messaging.microsoft[DOT]com
    direct from Gmail after marking them phishing

    I do that for google spam that is handled internally by SC and doesn't send to them.  I use the link https://support.google.com/code/contact/cloud_platform_report as per an post I read here a while back.  Extra work for us but for a while there was a lot of spam from there.

  5. On 10/27/2022 at 4:37 AM, petzl said:

    Helps if you could post a SpamCop (SC) tracking URL.
    Top of page BEFORE you submit spam.
    Try just putting email headers in parser

    below headers hit enter twice and write truncated
    What happens is some spammers jest write spam as a header so SC only sees it as all header with no body

    Then submit parse this is Microsoft free account phishing spam.
    I just forward them with headers and body to
    junk[AT]office365.microsoft[DOT]com  &  abuse[AT]messaging.microsoft[DOT]com
    direct from Gmail after marking them phishing

    I post the whole thing.  The spams that are too large for SC get truncated automatically.  This is the link to see a report that I just did today did not go thru AND was truncated by SC.

    https://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z6782226996zc3fb576f1f86b3e3eaa3c5215ebe9d21z

  6. 10 hours ago, gnarlymarley said:

    Sometimes instead of deleting (especially if not listed), I just click the add a new host and have it readd the email again.

    Yes I did that first as I mentioned and sent to all 3 places instead of just the default 1 and it is still not there.  It's no big deal as I continue to submit spam via the website and 99% go thru.  It was the errant few that got me looking for a cause and I wondered if I'd stumbled onto it.  Like I mentioned later, My guess is that the spammer's are just good at messing with the headers and SC can't tell they came to me.   (should be from me lol)

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  7. On 10/24/2022 at 3:45 PM, petzl said:

    You may need to delete your "mailhosts" for Yahoo
    Then renew them I suspect Yahoo have recently renewed their mailhosts.?

    Unfortunately they don't show up in the SC list page EXCEPT the ameritech account which uses Yahoo.  Ameritech is now ATT or some such.  Changed over a long time ago but I kept the ameritech address and ATT still uses yahoo.  I could start there I suppose.  Ameritech I had to pay for. It was the DSL (till I left the country over 10 yrs ago) we used.  Since it's attached to yahoo you can keep the address.   My actual yahoo accountt I've had since '98 or so lol.

    My guess is that the spammer's are just good at messing with the headers and SC can't tell they came to me.   ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    It happens infrequently but it's a spammer that has runs of spam come thru my original yahoo account.  They actually get by the yahoo spam filters which work pretty well mostly.

     

  8. This is very odd.  So I've been reporting via SC forever and my yahoo act. is the one I used to sign up and use for the forums.  Lately I've been getting these messages when reporting.  I cut and paste from Yahoo's "View Raw Message"

    "Hostname verified: mail-db3eur04hn0228.outbound.protection.outlook.com

    Possible forgery. Supposed receiving system not associated with any of your mailhosts

    Will not trust this Received line.

    Mailhost configuration problem, identified internal IP as source

    Mailhost:
    Please correct this situation - register every email address where you receive spam

    No source IP address found, cannot proceed.

    Add/edit your mailhost configuration
    Finding full email headers
    Submitting spam via email (may work better)
    Example: What spam headers should look like

    Nothing to do."

     

    Usually I just ignore this message (saying darn or some such words ;) )and move onto the next spam but today decided to click on "Add/edit your mailhost configuration" and my yahoo address was NOT in there.  I receive lots of spam on my yahoo so I report it often and OCCASIONALLY get the "nothing to do" message.  Now I'm wondering if something is amiss since my main yahoo address is missing from mail hosts.  I did send in to all 3 reporting addresses and replied to those and it went smoothly.  Yet my yahoo is still not listed.  What should I do, if anything?  I still can report yahoo spam but surprised it's not listed.  

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  9. 4 hours ago, RobiBue said:

    hopping on late on the train here, but I would like to clarify something about these links (mentioned as spam):

    links in the spam message do not necessarily mean that the "owner of the linked website" is spamming.
    It just means that the spammer

    a) is using a web-address from to include in the spam message
    b) added a "disclaimer" that links to a real disclaimer from an innocent party
    c) could truly be linking to the website for access to the spam content (but tbh with google, twitter, and so on it is rather unlikely)

    These are the reasons why Google does not want those reports...

    if you feel that the report is legit, you can drop google directly an abuse complaint through their website (I am sure they have a way listed somewhere)

     

    HTH

    Thanks.

    a.  yep, i get that, and in most cases it's just a "Dearest Recipient In Jesus" or some such that isn't worth anyone's time to pursue further.  

    Only the most egregious spammers are worth any extra effort such as ones sending virus's, sending links in hopes of tricking some poor sod to give up bank, paypal or whatever info, etc.and those, if SC devnulls it,  I'll FWD on my own.  In the instance above I posted about, it was the email itself that they didn't want to hear about which was a change for them or at least how SC handled their spam.  If it was an egregious type of spammer, then I may have fwd'ed on my own, but honestly don't remember the specifics of that one.  

    Since then google have resumed accepting spam so no worries.  :) 

  10. On 12/29/2020 at 5:36 PM, emanmb said:

    My ATT yahoo is pretty much spam free but the yahoo.co m one gets 4-8 a day, but sometimes none.  Gmail tucks their spam folder out of sight so I only go there if expecting an email and have not received it, so I don't really bother reporting those much.

    There was a period this year when there was little to no spam in my yahoo and even someone in a Mac user group commented about their lack of spam.  Perhaps there was a period of time covid was of use! ;) 

    We must belong to the same Yahoo Mac user group as I remember that post. :)  

     

  11. 8 hours ago, gnarlymarley said:

    I am not sure why, but for some reason, spammers do not send spam to my yahoo account any more.  I probably get two spams a year there and I don't know why so little.

    I wonder if the difference between my experience with google is that with hotmail, my average reporting time is around 8 hours, but with gmail reporting through spamcop, my average reporting time is about 30 minutes.  I might need to speed up my hotmail reporting to see if that makes a difference.

    My ATT yahoo is pretty much spam free but the yahoo.co m one gets 4-8 a day, but sometimes none.  Gmail tucks their spam folder out of sight so I only go there if expecting an email and have not received it, so I don't really bother reporting those much.

    There was a period this year when there was little to no spam in my yahoo and even someone in a Mac user group commented about their lack of spam.  Perhaps there was a period of time covid was of use! ;) 

  12. 7 hours ago, gnarlymarley said:

    I see the same thing coming to my hotmail.  As near as I can tell, the spammers are spinning up and down cloud instances as fast as they can to prevent getting caught.  Either they reached a point where they gave up on my gmail, or else google sometimes deals with it.  With my hotmail seems to be a day or two in between the spam like this.

    I guess in some ways I'm looking for patterns where none really exist but for the randomness of what methods my yahoo spammers send me stuff.  If I look in my gmail account it's stuff from all over the place.  The consistency at which my one yahoo receives spam from google sources made me wonder what was up, and if google takes SC reports seriously at all.  It probably means nothing :) 

  13. Wondering if it's just my flavour of spam coming to my Yahoo that tends to be 95% sourced from Google, or if anyone else has noticed this trend?  In fairness this screenshot shows multiple spams that were the same content I assume by their subjects.  I really only report from this email account as it gets to be too much bother reporting my gmail spam which tends to be from the usual multitude of sources.  Been reporting these google spams for several months now with no changes even with googledoc links in the emails too. 

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