Spamed Alot..help!! (Tom Yeoman?)

[JohnnyOhOh]

I'm getting lots of SPAM and trying to track it down (whos sending them).
alot of the links have 80 on the end is that an affilate number?

(Admin note: removed links)

If its an affilate number ............just sent me an email for mutiple monitors, to a website with the same 80 on the end could he be the one doing this??

(Admin note: removed other link, not sure why this one was here?)

Can you guys let me know what you think, I'm getting 40 a day pi$$ing me off!!!
thannx...JohnnyOhOh

[NickB]

I removed all the links because if they are spam link I do not want them on this forum, usually I would ban anybody who made a post like this assumign they are spammers themselves. You have posted normal posts before so I will give you a bit of leeway.

As for your spam posts I doubt Tom Yenoman would send you casino spam links no matter how much of a tool he is.

[NickB]

If you want to remove spam get Thunderbird and set-up custom mail filters. I get well over 200 spam emails daily but I see maybe 1 or 2.

I just set it up so that any email with the words

Viagra
sex
boobs
casino
gamble
pharmacy
medicine
..... etc etc

Get sent straight to my spam box, then I set a filter saying that anything in my spam box with the words:

forex
trading
......... etc etc

get highlighted green. So going through my spam box if somebody emails me saying viagra (or any other spam word) and Forex in the same email the email would be green and I could see if it is legitimate.

I have about 180 spam keywords, when I get spam that passes through the filter I look for some keywords and add them to the spam list. Usually its something like 'v1agra' (they change the 'i' to a '1').

I see about 1% of the spam I receive which I can live with.

[Fetor]

Another option would be to check with your IP provider. Sometimes they will offer a service that will scrub your mail before it hits your mailbox. If your IP provider does not do this for you then buy a domain name and have it hosted by a company that will provide a service for you at the server level. There are many that do this. I own my own domain for the purposes of never having to change my email no matter where my internet service comes from. I use doteasy.com (they are a small company in Canada), but I'm sure huge companies like inmotion hosting, bluehost, lunarpages, etc. will filter spam for you. There is a small fee involved but it is worth it. I use Thunderbird and use the filtering system, but I was still frustrated as I waited for all the penis and stock spam to download. Now I see maybe 2 or 3 spam a day that get through and those are then picked up by Thunderbird as my last line of defense. For me, paying the couple bucks a month for the scrubber service at the server level was money well spent.

[JohnnyOhOh]

Thank you and sorry Nick but this one you removed (Admin note: removed other link, not sure why this one was here?) was directly from Tom Yeoman and it did have the same :80 on the link he was sending me too....JohnnyOhOh thank you to Fetor

EDIT it seems :80\ is the default port used for HTTP connections...JohnnyOhOh Nick you can delete this thread thank you again. Or please remove his name from thread title and leave the thread for furure Thunderbird users.

[jude]

Is this why you don't get my emails, Nick? (although I don't recall writing "sex", "boobs", or "Viagra" in any of them)LOL