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Anyone else gettingTR spam like this in the past couple of days?

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I’m getting these messages in my email.

TechRepublic Spam Alert – Spam message.
spam

http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=102&threadID=331296&messageID=3299343

What to do?

AV

Edit: Added feedback tag. Thanks Boxy

Topic

*Raises hand*

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I deleted mine… twice… coz there were two

“The reason for the problem:
4.3.2 – Not accepting messages at this time 554-‘imta20.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net comcast 216.239.127.234 Comcast Blocked for spam. Please see http://help.comcast.net/content/faq/BL000000’
”

Dunno what it means… It looks like mail spoofing to me…

EDIT: i didn’t follow the link… Don’t hang me if it’s a spam site and someone else clicks it

Yeah, its definitely spoofing

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The thing that bothers me is that its supposedly coming from my TR email address. The display name is AV as opposed to my regular email display address.

The reason for the problem is the same as yours:
4.3.2 – Not accepting messages at this time 554-‘imta20.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net comcast 216.239.127.234 Comcast Blocked for spam. Please see http://help.comcast.net/content/faq/BL000000’

I clicked on the link and its just a FAQ from Comcast.

Looks like Comcast was compromised, but why the TR spam?

AV

Look at the full bucket of awesome here

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Why anywhere OTHER than TR?!

My email said “Mail Delivery System” and “Delivery Status Notification (Delay)” as if I’d sent mail and it was delayed to some “ithaki2” (at) comcast.net…

Hand raised here as well

In reply to Anyone else gettingTR spam like this in the past couple of days?

got 18, last night I marked as spam some 18 posts.

Hmmm.

I got about 10, but now I’m getting . . .

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Delivery to the following recipients has been delayed.

Theres a certain email address at Comcast that I’m supposedly spamming, but I’m not sure I should post it. Starts with an i.

Did you have the same address?

AV

Yes

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ithaki2 at comcast dot net, posted that way just to be nice, cause we don’t know what we are dealing with.

Alien, half-monkey, half-giraffe monsters

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Possible they want us all to spam people.
They, also, could be resposible for the increasing amount of spam posts i’ve seen in the past few weeks…

Correction: “Alien, half-monkey, half-giraffe monsters who own dodgy shoe and iPhone stores”

I got these shortly after reporting spam on TR

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Might be a coincidence, but after I reported the recent barmen as a spammer, I started spamming.

AV

AV are you implying that the

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Worms have turned and are now directing all their attention at you after reporting them as Spam?

Not something that I noticed but then again over the last few weeks I’ve been very busy and only reported a couple of Suspect posts on TR.

Though I’ve been getting them on 4 of the 5 TR Accounts that I maintain. 3 of them get very little if any posts made on them but I am getting that junk on them as well. 😉

Col

Maybe there is a connection

In reply to AV are you implying that the

I didn’t click on any links in the email, if there were any, except for the report as spam link. Next thing you know, I’m spamming ithaki2 at comcast.net. Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not.

AV

Since I got my scepter

In reply to Anyone else gettingTR spam like this in the past couple of days?

I’ve been getting them, but that’s part of the deal. I get multiples upon multiples of each spam report, though. One gets marked, I get at least five notices. :0

I think there’s a glitch in the system. 😐

Ah-hah

In reply to Anyone else gettingTR spam like this in the past couple of days?

Yep. Delivery failure notices. Probably four or five, now.

This means it’s not just spam. It’s Vindictive, don’t-mess-with-me, Spam.

Please edit your OP, AV.

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Add a Feedback tag so TPTB catch it. They need to know if there’s a glitch in the system…

I added the tag

In reply to Please edit your OP, AV.

Thanks for pointing that out.

AV

Ohhhhhh!!!

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So [b]THAT’S[/b] what the Feedback Tag is for!!! Doh!!!

Affirmative.

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I had about 15 or 20 Thursday morning.

Guilty as charged

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I got several which where added to the Spam List. Defiantly didn’t get any other action considered. 😉

Col

Hmph!

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I think I shall now be miffed. I did not have the pleasure of being included in Spam group. Perhaps they only targeted the top 47 TR members? 😀

Here; maybe this will help.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjqZ0aIAgFM

Haha!

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Man I hated that stuff as a kid. We only had it once in a great while but… BLECH!!

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