Spam: Just How Sophisticated Are Spamers Anyways?

Allyson Knowles — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:43:26 +0000

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Spam: Just How Sophisticated Are Spamers Anyways?

Magdalena Herrera — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:21:48 +0000

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Spam: Just How Sophisticated Are Spamers Anyways?

admin — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:03:16 +0000

Well I guess you are right, spam is here to stay but there are definitely things that can be don’t to not only protect yourself from spammers, but also protect your email server from being overloaded. I had actually not thought about people trying to crash my email server, but I am at least protected in part by what ever measures Google has put into place to protect the Gmail servers. Another reason Google Apps is a great utility. Secondly I have 2 lays of spam filtering, one through Google Apps and the other through an outlook plugin I am currently using. But they still seem to be getting through due to me posting my email address on this blog a while ago. There is another option that I can think of and that is to use an image with your email address in it. This should significantly stem the about of spam. Check out whois.sc for an example of what I mean. When you look up a domain, the owners email addresses are in this format to protect them against spammers.

Spam: Just How Sophisticated Are Spamers Anyways?

Tom — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:12:12 +0000

Spam is inevitable I think. Just as you meantion replacing the @ with [at] is most certainly already recognized by scraper type software that scans the web searching for email addresses. It certainly is possible consider any “emailname[any variable character]domain.com” to be saved as “emailname@domain.com”. Even if the software isn’t always 100% in determining if it is a legit email account, it doesn’t cost the spammers to attempt it.

Makes me wonder if its possible to embed and link-to insanely long massive lists of bogus email addresses with the intention of spamming spammers with false emails. Or furthermore….. target a specific domain name’s email server you don’t like by creating a list of a few hundred thousand false emails using their domain extension for spammers to scrape.

Hmmm… I see no solution to spam other than possibily those obnoxious validator systems.

Anyway…what was my point? oh yeah… first comment!!!

Tom