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MrWiggly

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MrWiggly

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For about the last week, whilst running "MailWasher" I have been picking up an odd incoming EMail.

 

This EMail is 1kb in size, has no EMail address, and no subject matter.

 

It cannot be added to the "blacklist" (no address to latch on to), but can be deleted in the normal way.

 

Is this just an oddball, or is somebody trying to creep something nasty in whilst I am not looking ?

 

Definately odd ....

 

What say you ... :confused: :confused:

The Older I get .. The better I was.

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John S Member

John S

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I get those as well. Deleted with all the rest of the spam :)

 

Take care

John S

Quanti Canicula Ille In Fenestra

 

Species caught in 2017 Common Ash, Hawthorn, Hazel, Scots Pine, White Willow.

Species caught in 2016: Alder, Blackthorn, Common Ash, Crab Apple, Left Earlobe, Pedunculate Oak, Rock Whitebeam, Scots Pine, Smooth-leaved Elm, Swan, Wayfaring tree.

Species caught in 2015: Ash, Bird Cherry, Black-Headed Gull, Common Hazel, Common Whitebeam, Elder, Field Maple, Gorse, Puma, Sessile Oak, White Willow.

Species caught in 2014: Big Angry Man's Ear, Blackthorn, Common Ash, Common Whitebeam, Downy Birch, European Beech, European Holly, Hawthorn, Hazel, Scots Pine, Wych Elm.
Species caught in 2013: Beech, Elder, Hawthorn, Oak, Right Earlobe, Scots Pine.

Species caught in 2012: Ash, Aspen, Beech, Big Nasty Stinging Nettle, Birch, Copper Beech, Grey Willow, Holly, Hazel, Oak, Wasp Nest (that was a really bad day), White Poplar.
Species caught in 2011: Blackthorn, Crab Apple, Elder, Fir, Hawthorn, Horse Chestnut, Oak, Passing Dog, Rowan, Sycamore, Willow.
Species caught in 2010: Ash, Beech, Birch, Elder, Elm, Gorse, Mullberry, Oak, Poplar, Rowan, Sloe, Willow, Yew.

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Chris Goddard

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Mr Wiggly, way to get rid is to use a filter, I also use the blacklists from the DNS sites that will list most of them. Most people would answer the message asking them to resend as no message came through?! BINGO!! A live address!!

Most of the emails which you get which are SPAM will come from addresses which have been hijacked for the purpose of sending out spam. That way the sender does not get back all the SH1T that comes with sending several million messages and the responses from the replies. The only messages which WILL be returned are the ones to get yourself taken off the list!! All the rest will bounce back to the supposed sender. The actual replies will bounce around a bit and eventually end up where they will do most good for the real sender. They will then sell those addresses as "Live Accounts" worth quite a lot of money by all accounts!!

I read the story of one such individual in the USA who moved into a multi- million dollar house. The neighbours got wind of what he did for a living and informed some nice people who didn't exactly like this guy and so they started to bombard his private email address with Spam for several weeks!! He was apparently not very happy!! As Elton might say SHAME INNIT!!!!

 

 

Chris

 

PS "They" were the staff at Spam cop.

Chris Goddard


It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

If GOD had NOT meant us to go fishing, WHY did he give us arms then??

(If you can't help out someone in need then don't bother my old Dad always said! My grandma put it a LITTLE more, well different! It's like peeing yourself in a black pair of pants she said! It gives you a LOVELY warm feeling but no-one really notices!))

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