Help, techies...clever DUers must know how to deal with this.

[Atman]

EDITED TO REMOVE ACTIVE LINKS

They started a few days ago. Just a few a day. Today I received a bunch, with normal sounding subject lines. Now they don't even try to hide it. Any suggestions?

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From: support at powerrecruitmentcenter.com
Subject: YOUVE WON 10,000 NEW SIGNUPS! FREE FREE FREE + $25,000.00 CASH!
Date: December 1, 2004 11:57:41 PM EST
To: (my e-mail address)


powerrecruitmentcenter.com


COME TO MY SITE AND BUY SOMETHING OR I WILL KEEP SPAMMING YOU FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE AND YOU CANT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT!


30 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE!


IF YOU DON'T SPEND OVER $1,000.00 I WILL SPAM THE SHIT OUT OF YOU!


GO AHEAD AND REPORT ME TO YAHOO..... THEY DONT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT SPAM LAWS.


FORWARD THIS TO  [e-mail]  IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME.


YOU BETTER  STOP ME BEFORE I SELL YOUR INFORMATION TO ANOTHER SPAMMER!


powerrecruitmentcenter.com


YOU ARE SO PATHETIC, YOU PROBABLY WONT REPORT ME FOR SPAM.


FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


powerrecruitmentcenter.com


powerrecruitmentcenter.com (repeated many times).

[Systematic Chaos]

1. Your first huge mistake was posting those links!

Maybe you're not aware of it, but it's a safe bet that anybody clicking on that link who isn't adequately protected will mess up their computer with some kind of malicious code.

Your only option right now is to either ignore these or report it and get a new address. Sorry for your inconvenience.

[OhioChick]

3. Very True....

You should edit those.....

[charlie]

2. Spoof

A spammer who taunts isn't going to rack up much in sales, is he?

From the powerrecruitmentcenter site:

A PERSON IS BULK MAILING WITH OUR EMAIL ADDRESS AND HAS CREATED A ADVERTISEMENT THAT HAS NOT COME FROM OUR EMAIL ADDRESS OR COMPANY. THE AUTHORITIES WILL BE INVESTIGATING AND THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR IT WILL BE PROSECUTED TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW!!! WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVIENENCE AND AUTHORITIES ARE INVESTIGATING!!

[Rumba]

4. What do you read mail on?

Most mail software can filter out messages by sender's address.

[Atman]

5. Already being filtered out.

No big deal actually. It is just that the last dozen of them started getting these nasty BUY SOMETHING messages. Before that they were just regular e-mails.

Since they all had the same name, it was pretty easy to filter them. I never even really cared until these rude ones started. I usually do a quick scan of the junk folder before I delete the contents, just in case I filtered out something unintentionally; that is when I found these new ones.

Oh well. I did a WHOIS on all the IP's in the header. Two are Chinese addresses. One is the actual Powerrecruitmentcenter.com site (obviously the hijacked one.)

Because of the poltical content of my web site, I thought these might be freeper-generated hate mail harrassment type e-mails, so I was a bit concerned when they started getting intense.

Thanks for your help. I sent the header info along to my host, too, just for the hell of it.

[NuttyFluffers]

6. *sigh* annoying isn't it?

i'd use 'address book only' option for web-based e-mails. hotmail, yahoo, etc. i just use them as junk e-mail addresses, but only turn off the 'address book only' for petty business transactions, and only for that short window period. otherwise i have no need to turn that strict filter off. now i get no spam on them; not in my special black book, then i don't care to hear from you.

other service provider email addresses are best used with mozilla's thunderbird or apple's mail program. their algorithms are quite solid and filter crap like this fast. then hand out this email address judiciously.

if you aren't doing this, start now. enjoy the freedom of having your e-mail back.

[Atman]

7. I use Apple Mail

It has been doing a pretty good job. My dot Mac account was GREAT! I never got any spam, it was all filtered out before it ever got to my mailbox. But at $120 a year for two addresses, I finally said "fook it." I'm beginning to wonder whether or not it might be worth the money!

My only problem with the address book only option is that I rely on my web site for commercial purposes. I got two job inquiries just this morning, which would have been buried in with 50 spam messages, and possibly deleted, if I had that option on. I've set up an extensive set of filters, but now it takes five minutes for Mail to check all of them while it downloads my mail! LOL! Oh well. Nothing is perfect. I think this guy is done with for the time being. Like I said, I didn't care about them until they started containing threats.

Thanks for our advice!

[NuttyFluffers]

8. your apple iMail program should still do a good job.

don't really need a dot Mac account, the iMail program should also have an excellent algorithm filter. then there's mozilla's thunderbird, a free mail and news program (for PC and Mac now i believe), which also has an excellent algorithm filter.

give the algorithms about a month to start getting up to speed, then it'll have enough data to start making excellent predictive decisions about what's spam and what's not.

when i look for a job i use one of my provider-based emails (and i generally have 2 of those running). so when i start getting job search engine spam i can start having the algorithm work on it.