kluless Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 Since last weekend I've been receiving around 10 times the amount of spam on my Yahoo account, it's gone up from 4 or 5 a day to 30-40 each day. Anyone else having this trouble? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lking Posted September 15, 2016 Share Posted September 15, 2016 "Anyone else having this trouble? " Not currently. Like you my volume of spam has a "floor" level and there are times when in short burst I get 5-10 times as much trash in my inbox. By definition those burst come and go. Given the large number of spam sources, each cycling through spam clients and CDs of email addresses, the result is a "background" level of spam. Like other examples of background noise, there are random periods of higher levels. My floor level is 'a bit higher' than yours, but then I have used the same email address sense the mid-80's, and I have all spam filters turned off so to report all examples. This approach did irritate someone once. My peak spam was several hundred/hour in long burst for two days. Did through lots of those in the trash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinner Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 Its a bit suspiciously quiet for me, It feels a bit like someone has been running a chainsaw nearby and all day and then suddenly stopped. I wonder if the data from aggregated spamcop reports could identify which spamcop users are on which spam lists and if there's any common features of the list/source information Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave___ Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 On 15/09/2016 at 0:31 PM, kluless said: Since last weekend I've been receiving around 10 times the amount of spam on my Yahoo account, it's gone up from 4 or 5 a day to 30-40 each day. Anyone else having this trouble? Yes - with a BT account. This morning, Spamcop seems swamped, making manual submissions impractical - Spamcop submissions usually take only a few seconds, but are currently much longer ("Waiting for members.spamcop.net" 10x ?) and occasionally timing out ("An error occurred while processing your request" also "The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave___ Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 Spamcop no longer functioning: "[an error occurred while processing this directive]"https://members.spamcop.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kluless Posted September 27, 2016 Author Share Posted September 27, 2016 On 16.9.2016 at 4:32 AM, spinner said: I wonder if the data from aggregated spamcop reports could identify which spamcop users are on which spam lists and if there's any common features of the list/source information When a report is submitted the email address is 'munged', but is that only the address in the header? Some spammers also include the recipient's address in the body of their spam... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave___ Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 The volume of spam over the past few weeks has been so great (10x the usual 10 spam messages a day ?) that my Spamcop account is depleted of 'fuel' for the first time in several years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisati Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 I was wondering where the volume of spam I normally get at one or two email addresses went to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave___ Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 The volume is too great to report - so I'm only reporting a minor proportion and not sending any accompanying message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgolden Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 My wife's inbox has been flooded with something called RightNews every two hours for the past month. Originating IPs are 64.21.76.101 & 64.21.76.119 They appear to be on bullet proof hosting and are evidently white listed by someone at SpamCop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lking Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 As they say, 'must be your turn in the barrel.' I have noticed over the years that the volume and type of spam like the weather changes. For me the last few days have been 'male drugs.' It has been a while sense I received ray-ban offers or student loan spam. Like the tide the volume comes and goes. I think it all depends on which CD list of email addresses, spammers choose to put in the drive and who is paying to send out the trash. There is evidence of bullet proof spammer hosts, but not of a SpamCop white list. Keep in mind SpamCop itself does not block or close down a spammer. Only the ISP that the spammer use to send email can close them down. Only you/your ISP can block the spam coming to your inbox. The spam reports send for you by SpamCop let host know what their clients are doing in the hope that the spammer will be stopped. The block list that your submitted spam helps develop is used by email hosts to help filter incoming email. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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