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Don't know whether any of you have had this.
Just received an email from Funnycard.net.
It has gone through a friends email address, the wording doesn't sound like it is from the person who sent it.
It is also stating you have to enter 5 peoples names and email addresses into it aswell to view the card.
It also is advertising a link to a site where you can get peoples details from registration numbers.
Me being cautious have not entered any email addresses but have any of you come accross this one.
Lee.
Just received an email from Funnycard.net.
It has gone through a friends email address, the wording doesn't sound like it is from the person who sent it.
It is also stating you have to enter 5 peoples names and email addresses into it aswell to view the card.
It also is advertising a link to a site where you can get peoples details from registration numbers.
Me being cautious have not entered any email addresses but have any of you come accross this one.
Lee.
Is it this one?
www.langa.com/newsletters/2002/2002-11-21.htm#2
Some greeting card software which, buried in the licence agreement, allows them to send e-mails to everyone in your address book.
But, because you (or your friend) clicked on Yes to agree to the licence then it's not technically illegal. Nice one for the spammers, no?
www.langa.com/newsletters/2002/2002-11-21.htm#2
Some greeting card software which, buried in the licence agreement, allows them to send e-mails to everyone in your address book.
But, because you (or your friend) clicked on Yes to agree to the licence then it's not technically illegal. Nice one for the spammers, no?
Don't know which one it was as I've deleted it now.
The site with reg no's, I had a quick look at, but I think you have to buy some software or licence agreement before you can view it.
It does list all the countries in the world though, but don't know how reliable the info is.It is one of these Spy/investigator web sites, American I think.
The site with reg no's, I had a quick look at, but I think you have to buy some software or licence agreement before you can view it.
It does list all the countries in the world though, but don't know how reliable the info is.It is one of these Spy/investigator web sites, American I think.
They seriously P*ss me off these spammers.
Am i the only one who keeps getting adverts and "buy our products" type crap in their email?
The latest one is, get this, Penis Enlargement Pills.
Not much use to either a girl, an 80 year old grandaddy, or even me.
I have had to reply by telling them to remove me from their listings, as i do not require an even larger Penis, as the one i have now is quite large enough....
Thank you.
Am i the only one who keeps getting adverts and "buy our products" type crap in their email?
The latest one is, get this, Penis Enlargement Pills.
Not much use to either a girl, an 80 year old grandaddy, or even me.
I have had to reply by telling them to remove me from their listings, as i do not require an even larger Penis, as the one i have now is quite large enough....
Thank you.
Blocking the domain doesn't always help either: a lot of spam _purports_ to come from a legitimate e-mail address @aol.com, @yahoo.com, @..., so blocking *that* will prevent your real friends with a read address under those domains from getting mail to you.
Best option is to never post your e-mail address anywhere in the first place. Of course, that's a fine theory, but it falls down in practise
I'm blackholing mail from known spammers at my firewall, and keyword filtering for mucky stuff in Outlook, but I *still* get spam. It's harder to deal with as an individual than it is as a corporate, unless your ISP uses some spam blocking measures. Which not many do
One thing I can recommend is to use Zone Alarm Pro, which can stop outlook making outbound web connections. It won't stop you getting spam, but for porn spam, it will prevent your browser getting out to the internet to load the mucky images that HTML spam tries to pull in when you click on the message.
Of course, you might *want* the mucky images, I suppose, so feel free to ignore that advice
Best option is to never post your e-mail address anywhere in the first place. Of course, that's a fine theory, but it falls down in practise
I'm blackholing mail from known spammers at my firewall, and keyword filtering for mucky stuff in Outlook, but I *still* get spam. It's harder to deal with as an individual than it is as a corporate, unless your ISP uses some spam blocking measures. Which not many do
One thing I can recommend is to use Zone Alarm Pro, which can stop outlook making outbound web connections. It won't stop you getting spam, but for porn spam, it will prevent your browser getting out to the internet to load the mucky images that HTML spam tries to pull in when you click on the message.
Of course, you might *want* the mucky images, I suppose, so feel free to ignore that advice
i heard there is a virus knocking about that relies on visitors going to a greeting card site which downloads some sort of executable... and then it sends the url to friends in your outlook address book... or something similar... wasn't really paying attention when my wife told me cos I am really paranoid about emails i receive so dont need to worry
I think that is the one I got, it was from funnycard.net which is apparently a legal website.
And because you click the link and enter addresses it is not illegal.
I figured that it must have been something that attacked her address book as I don't hear from her that much.
Which reminds me, she's still got my two Tiffany CD'S
And because you click the link and enter addresses it is not illegal.
I figured that it must have been something that attacked her address book as I don't hear from her that much.
Which reminds me, she's still got my two Tiffany CD'S
For you guys who use MS Outlook, I would recommend Cloudmark's Spamnet product (www.cloudmark.com/) , which removes/files known spams from your received mail by referencing a central database. When you block a spam yourself, the details get sent off to Cloudmark to be added to the database.
I've also found that unwanted popups from webpages is a total arsepain, now solved by using Naviscope (www.naviscope.com/) which in a nice product, as in simply removes offensive popup html from your incoming traffic.
Both products are free.
HTH,
John
I've also found that unwanted popups from webpages is a total arsepain, now solved by using Naviscope (www.naviscope.com/) which in a nice product, as in simply removes offensive popup html from your incoming traffic.
Both products are free.
HTH,
John
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