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    Spam mail.. how did they do it?

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    by homeflash ·

    I keep getting spam mail in one of my accounts and I dont seem to be able to
    get rid of all of them, the filter only works whenever I input the new spam mail.

    Two things I would like to know

    1. How do they send spam email? I only found software that prevent spam or article to prevent spam mail but not create them. I am curious how they did that

    2. How do clean my email .. I have so much
    spam email, seems like they are never gone.
    please dont tell me to give up my email account

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    • #3737526

      Spam mail.. how did they do it?

      by dmiles ·

      In reply to Spam mail.. how did they do it?

      The generating of spam mail can be done internally or from an outside source,it is the same as junk mail.It can be started by signing up for publications,partipating in surveys,some advertisement will sell your email address,any thing that is applied for over the net and you can get a person’s email address.
      Depending on your ISP provider you can report some spammers,using a third party software.I am not sure of any clear cut way of clearing out spam.

      • #3737520

        Spam mail.. how did they do it?

        by homeflash ·

        In reply to Spam mail.. how did they do it?

        that is not the answer at all…
        I need answer from someone who actually created spam email

    • #3737256

      Spam mail.. how did they do it?

      by fred king ·

      In reply to Spam mail.. how did they do it?

      Spam mailers just get email addresses at random and send you mail.
      This depends on who you use for email.
      Hotmail have a protection box where mail sent to you that you don’t wanht goes into and you just then empty it.
      The other option would be toadd your filter and block the address or the whole of that domain.

      • #3791547

        Spam mail.. how did they do it?

        by homeflash ·

        In reply to Spam mail.. how did they do it?

        Please read the question again… Adding the filter is a very old trick and it wont work on all spam email.. I have been receiving thousand of them now…

        I want to know.
        1. How did you do that? (make spam email)
        2. To complete remove myself from domain list. Filter is only temporary solution!

    • #3730780

      Spam mail.. how did they do it?

      by omahabob ·

      In reply to Spam mail.. how did they do it?

      Actually they are answering your question. Your e-mail address is sold as part of a list to other parties when you give it out to web sites and such. The spammers just have bulk mailers that e-mail to everyone on those lists or to certain parties byusing filters. It really isn’t any more complicated than that.

      There are also other tricks they use to mask their source and to send mail via a different domain than their own to cover their tracks.

      If your filters are not doing the trick, your only other option would be to buy some sort of blocking software. Those use much better filtering techniques than the ones built into the typical e-mail programs.

      Nobody wants to give up an e-mail account, but if your problem is as bad as you say, that may end up being your only good option.

      A few tips:

      1. If you use AOL, live with it. They are notorious for being the best source of e-mail addresses for spammers. There isn’t much you can do about it except dump them (I would anyway).

      2. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER give out your primary e-mail address to web sites or anyone else who is not a friend or associate. Create a free hotmail account for that and let it collect all that spam. Go there and just purge it every couple of weeks sothey don’t deactivate your account though. This may not eliminate all of it, but it drastically reduces the problem. Of course, this only works well on a new account. You’ll continue to get spam for a long time on an existing account that is alreadywell known out there on the mailing lists. Nothing much you can do about that.

      3. Never ever respond to a spam e-mail even if they are offering to take you off their mailing list. This just tells the spammer he has hit a valid address and guarantees that you will get more spam. They have ABSOLUTELY NO INTEREST in removing you from their list. Quite the opposite. It’s just a ploy to get you to respond.

      • #3732711

        Spam mail.. how did they do it?

        by homeflash ·

        In reply to Spam mail.. how did they do it?

        Still didnt answer..

        I am asking
        1. How did they do that? Can I see an link or article on how they do it or maybe I can try to do one myself?

        2. there is no such program to avoid all spam email.

        Of course I have one hotmail account getting all the junks which I dont even bother to open it… I already knew that

    • #3733739

      Spam mail.. how did they do it?

      by espen ·

      In reply to Spam mail.. how did they do it?

      Spam mail can be created by logging into
      a SMTP server that is open for relaying.
      Using a bulk mailer, you can send
      thousands of mails, seemingly coming
      from a legitimate domain (Such as
      whitehouse.gov) That way, it’s almost
      impossible to trace, unless you start
      analysing IP adresses. (Because in 99%
      of the cases they will leave an IP trace,
      which again can be traced to their ISP.)
      However, this is again pretty useless, as
      any spammer with respect for himself
      would use some clueless free ISP, which
      doesn’t actually authenticate the ID of it’s
      users. You will need to know the SMTP
      syntaxes to do this. (Easy to set up a shell
      script in Unix to do this to a known weak
      mail server.) I had for a couple of daysthousands of e-mails coming in through
      my e-mail server, to be relayed on – Until I
      noticed, and shut of relaying. Best thing
      you can do is to notify InterNic about
      which IP’s the spam is coming from –
      They are principally in a position toforce
      sysadmins to shut of relaying on their
      servers – And when this is done, you’re
      safe.

      It is impossible to clean up an e-mail
      account in the way I suspect you mean. If
      your e-mail is out there, you can’t
      un-publish it. Only solution is to use mail
      blocking software, to pick up big bcc
      fields, or to pick up common phrases.

      Hope this helps.

    • #3687982

      Spam mail.. how did they do it?

      by quinto ·

      In reply to Spam mail.. how did they do it?

      We run a unix email server and discovered we too were being used as a relay for spammers. When we did a log check we discovered applications that ran hidden on our srvr. There were two suspect tcp/ip variants:ETRN and SMTPD that were associated withthis infiltration.We could trace where the email relay requests came from but they were a legitimate Company no doubt used as an intermediate relay site.We set up the srvr to only let remote users get POP mail but not relay.This stopped them but ourlog show many requests for the relay and the ETRN protocol is definitely associated. My question is where is there info on this process and has anyone done research on how this works,and how can we trasce these things to catch the little buggers?

    • #3687061

      Spam mail.. how did they do it?

      by homeflash ·

      In reply to Spam mail.. how did they do it?

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