Drowning in Spam Again

[felipe808]

I don't get it. Spam assassin was catching 90% of the Spam coming in and now it's bounced back up to only 50%. It's terrible. It seems that after I tried adding more "rules" to dump that spam in my local Delete Folder it got worse. Is it possible that my opening the messages (the only way to add Rule) that the spammers know it's a good account? I'm paranoid. Thanks for any advice.

[Andy]

Have you tried just the default settings?

I get tons of spam messages sent to accounts that I did not create. IE info@.. ceo@.. support@... etc I turned on SA, and left it at the default settings, and its catching them all.

[felipe808]

Spam

I reset everthing to standard settings. Most of the spam getting through is with a false name in front of @mydomain.com. I really think it got worse after I started opening them to try and add a Rule in MExplorer to direct them to the delete folder. Is it possible that the spammers know I am opening their emails?

[Jonathan]

http://didtheyreadit.com

http://didtheyreadit.com/index.php/html/howitworks

Might wanna check that

[DomainDog]

There's a general upsurge!

As happens sometimes, I think there is a spam assault going on out there, maybe in anticipation of the long-awaited crackdown on hardcore spammers by the US government!

[Frank Hagan]

There's a general upsurge!

As happens sometimes, I think there is a spam assault going on out there, maybe in anticipation of the long-awaited crackdown on hardcore spammers by the US government!

That's funny ... the US practically legalized spam by enacting the CAN-SPAM act. It was proof positive that the American Marketing Association still has lots of lobbying power.

The increase in spam is due to the ineffectual efforts of the federal government, who obliterated the state laws starting to take effect. For instance, in California, I was collecting the data to sue each of the spammers for $500 in liquidated damages for each spam email. That would have shut down the spammers cold.

I would like to see email addresses become property of the domain holder (not the user). That would put the guys sending me emails offering 10,000,000 email addresses for $200 out of business: the very act of selling someone else's property makes it theft.

Its not the guys wanting to enlarge some of my body parts that are responsible for the spam, its the guys making a living selling email lists to ignorant people who think they'll get rich by sending spam. That's the money-making end of the spam business, and there are only about 200 people involved in it (according to Spamhaus.org).

[DomainDog]

Hey Frank. I haven't been following the laws that much, but I thought on the heels of the "No-Call" list, there was potent anti-spam legislation coming.

Sometimes filters get overwhelmed. For now... I just keep deleting them and reporting them.

[ray]

I found the same issue

on cpanel 14, spam assas. stopped working all together for 2 weeks after the last up upgrade to cpanel. Now it is back.. but like you said.. .it is catching less than before, I would also say it dropped from 90 to 50%

[felipe808]

Looks like it's spiraling worse

This am greater than 50%, around 2/3rds, getting through...600 some spams. what a waste of time.

[GravityArc]

In desperation I dropped the "required_hits" setting to 1.5 and I'm STILL getting 100+ spams a day. I think the "random word" spams (where they have random words at the bottom usually in white on white font) are really able to bypass SA.

Quite a pain in the butt...At least I'm getting REALLY good at deleting e-mail. :-)

[felipe808]

1200 plus spams in one day

Yes, my proficiency has increase as well at deleting.
These are all very small emails that only hit about 2.5 max so your idea may work. I'm going to try lowering the number. Thanks.

[Frank Hagan]

Hey Frank. I haven't been following the laws that much, but I thought on the heels of the "No-Call" list, there was potent anti-spam legislation coming.

Sometimes filters get overwhelmed. For now... I just keep deleting them and reporting them.

Actually, they made it worse. Rather than outlawing spam entirely, like the EU is trying to do, the legislators gave spammers an "out" ... you have to request NOT to get spam. So they simply don't send you the specific penis enlargement spam again, but they send 50 viagra spams. So you opt out for each of those, and you get 500 dating service spams. Spamhaus.org has a good article on it at http://www.spamhaus.org/position/CAN-SPAM_Act_2003.html