kris Posted April 9, 2016 Share Posted April 9, 2016 I'm going to post this idea again as it completely killed my spam. I was getting a lot of spam. I dutifully reported all of it via spamcop. Kept getting same stuff. started editing spam (show original) and removing my email addy and part before the [at] from the BODY, and then reporting it via spamcop. spam has dwindled to zero. This works!!! I report via gmail browser logon, show original, save, edit, forward, and attach edited spam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kris Posted November 28, 2016 Author Share Posted November 28, 2016 This is spam if I ever saw it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lking Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 No kris has not lost his mind. There was spam between his two post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kolor Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 Some Bot put some adverts for this forum.It means scrip from forum is not secure for this. The same my gmail account isn't able fight with spam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lking Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 Not to hijack the thread from kris, but there is always the tension between tight controls which exclude some legitimate email/forum sources, and looser controls which may at times allow some unwanted material BUT assures ALL legitimate post are allowed. We chose to deal with occasional spam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kris Posted November 28, 2016 Author Share Posted November 28, 2016 a) but I HAVE lost my mind!!! b ) would have responded sooner but was out and about and (very intentionally) do not keep logon passwords on my phone. c) @Lking, you can hijack my threads any time you want and I hugely appreciate the time you and others spend here!!!!! Much appreciate your efforts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! d) thanks for deleting it! It just cried out "give me your email address" so loudly that I had to laugh, and clicked "report post". Didn't want anyone to get hurt. Thanks to spamcop I am down to about 8/month - none in the last 2 weeks. Every now and then someone will get ahold of it and I will get 2 or 3 more. Have to be vigilant - vigilance and persistence pays!!! I still randomly send them additionally to uce. EDIT I do a lot of ebay from China and once in a great while I will get a thing showing up in gmail spam that is a result of one of the companies giving it to another, and an unsubscribe actually is safe and works. Thankfully is rare. Most spam with "unsubscribe" has obviously altered links so readers BE SURE before you try that. You can pretty much always tell by looking at the source html for the spam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lking Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 c) you are welcome. d) thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kris Posted December 6, 2016 Author Share Posted December 6, 2016 I have shifted to removing most or all of the BODY before sending it to spamcop or uce. There is nothing in there that helps either find the source, but there is an increasing amount of my email addy, in partially munged form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kris Posted January 7, 2017 Author Share Posted January 7, 2017 noticed 2 things - 1. when I run a piece of spam through spamcop, I quickly get more spam. 2. when I post something here at spamcop forum, I quickly get more spam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lking Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 1 hour ago, kris said: noticed 2 things - 1. when I run a piece of spam through spamcop, I quickly get more spam. 2. when I post something here at spamcop forum, I quickly get more spam. "Mileage may vary" If what you observe were universally true, my level of spam should be overwhelming, given my post here, over 1M spam reported, plus more than 10K forum spam reported to StopForumSpam.com It is a common human trait to see patterns in random events/numbers. For our ancestors it was a survival skill to see the leopard in the random shadows in the tall grass. Have you done a search for "increased spam"? There are several discussions on similar topics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kris Posted January 13, 2017 Author Share Posted January 13, 2017 yep, I think you're right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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