Jank1887 Posted April 22, 2005 Posted April 22, 2005 Not that I'm complaining in the slightest, but am I the only one that has noticed a strangely large drop in spam quantity this week? (Mon 18th to Fri 22nd) I tend to pick up about a dozen or so daily between my frequently used addresses. This week, one. Total. That's it. Sadly, I know it won't last, all a part of 'regression to the mean' I'm sure, but odd nonetheless.
dra007 Posted April 22, 2005 Posted April 22, 2005 Sadly indeed, I have seen it drop many times only to come back at an even more aggressive rate...
turetzsr Posted April 22, 2005 Posted April 22, 2005 ...My load is at least as great this week as last, I would say.
shmengie Posted April 23, 2005 Posted April 23, 2005 I've noticed a notable increase in spam over the past few days. This year I've reported spam 110 days Averaging 48.05 reports a day. 58 | 2005-04-15 | Fri 52 | 2005-04-16 | Sat 48 | 2005-04-17 | Sun 43 | 2005-04-18 | Mon 64 | 2005-04-19 | Tue 57 | 2005-04-20 | Wed 67 | 2005-04-21 | Thu 77 | 2005-04-22 | Fri Argh... 3.6 hours to go before that 77 stops climbing Mostly stock spams... Funny thing tho, seems none of the pill popping spams resolve to actual websites anymore. I have noticed an increase in the $make$ money at home scams.
Jank1887 Posted April 27, 2005 Author Posted April 27, 2005 ...My load is at least as great this week as last, I would say. 26842[/snapback] Well then, lucky me. For some reason it's still down.
WisTex Posted April 27, 2005 Posted April 27, 2005 Maybe its getting filtered better, or some of the spammers that have your e-mail address got shut down.
GaGo Posted April 28, 2005 Posted April 28, 2005 Maybe its getting filtered better, or some of the spammers that have your e-mail address got shut down. 27177[/snapback] would you like to exchange e-mail adresses with me? :-) Report History: Edit: as in the other posting, the list of porn spam Subject: lines has been removed, again noting that the only real information of interest was the repeated line "No reports sent"
dra007 Posted April 28, 2005 Posted April 28, 2005 GaGo...I suggest you forward him that spam, he seems to be quite misguided about this spam business..
Jank1887 Posted April 28, 2005 Author Posted April 28, 2005 oh trust me, I understand it well enough. Had this address since C.1998, and I'm pretty sure it's on the Millions CD's if they're still floating around. Gotten better about where my addy appears though, and between getting it off of scrape-able web sites and increasing my sneakemail usage (take that webmillion), the last couple years have been better than many others. The past month has been really low for some reason (several days with no spam!), and I was just curious if anyone else saw the same or had any clues about it.
WisTex Posted April 28, 2005 Posted April 28, 2005 Your e-mail address might not be easily guessable. Many spammers have given up on lists and simply use a "dictionary" type attack. They then run the "dictionary" of usernames against any domain they want. probably 90% of the spam that hits my domains aren't even addressed to a real account.
Jank1887 Posted April 29, 2005 Author Posted April 29, 2005 It's not what I'd call typically dictionary-able, but it isn't too far off. My guess is that at some time it was easily scrapable, as I would get emails with my addy in the CC along with 50 others in the same domain, all in alphabetical order. (or it would be an email to all the j-starting addresses on the server.)
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