TomosJ Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 Hi All, Most junk emails I receive are according to Spamcop hosted by OVH, the last few emails have contained a huge amount of information in the source code (the last email was 19,168 pages long in a word document and contained 697,864 words), I report most of them via OVH website (except these large emails as they cause ovh form to crash), they cause Outlook and Word to hang for a few minutes. Can anyone recommend the next steps to take? Thanks Tom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lking Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 It would be acceptable to delete attachments, or truncate really long files before submitting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomosJ Posted October 30, 2018 Author Share Posted October 30, 2018 Hi LKing, Thanks for your reply, I was thinking more about how to escalate the issue relating to the amount of spam I was receiving to OVH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petzl Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 4 hours ago, TomosJ said: Can anyone recommend the next steps to take? Copy above attachment to start (where it reads "Base 64" or whatever) replace with the word Truncated https://mailsc.spamcop.net/sc?id=z6496962755zf32e22d898d713f92d4cbb71d6edc5f0z;action=display https://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z6496962755zf32e22d898d713f92d4cbb71d6edc5f0z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomosJ Posted October 31, 2018 Author Share Posted October 31, 2018 I suspect I have 3 more emails of equal size as I'm having trouble viewing the source code, are the spammers using different tactics to make it difficult to view and copy the source code or are they targeting my email address? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomosJ Posted October 31, 2018 Author Share Posted October 31, 2018 I'm just looked at the email size and all these large spam mails are all 37.4 mb according to Thunderbird Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobiBue Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 8 minutes ago, TomosJ said: I'm just looked at the email size and all these large spam mails are all 37.4 mb according to Thunderbird if they are that large, it would almost seem that they would contain some malware... (a virus or such) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomosJ Posted October 31, 2018 Author Share Posted October 31, 2018 Hi RobiBue, I'm just looking at the source code now and it seems to be very similiar lines just repeater, I've pasted an example below <MAP id=3Dutube name=3Dutube>https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2018/10= /22/dancing-stars-fairy-tale-showmance-brews-disney-night/1734997002/</MAP>= 3qumrblw-tua1-sx6-whx-04kvprlt5ia7 <MAP id=3Dutube name=3Dutube>https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2018/10= /22/dancing-stars-fairy-tale-showmance-brews-disney-night/1734997002/</MAP>= 9og3rxal-hyvk-biy-cx3-wiadv9lugr7f Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobiBue Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 if that's the case, then just post the header and the first few lines of the body in their form with the comment that the rest was truncated or omitted due to size restrictions. I do that when I report spam larger than 50kiB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnarlymarley Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 1 hour ago, RobiBue said: if that's the case, then just post the header and the first few lines of the body in their form with the comment that the rest was truncated or omitted due to size restrictions. I do that when I report spam larger than 50kiB Also, I believe spamcop truncates to 50kb when submitting, if I remember correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobiBue Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 In SC when i submit as attachment, the spam needs to be truncated. SC won't accept it otherwise. Manually in the report box, it might be the case that SC does it automagically but I haven't tried that one in a while though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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