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New way to spam

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I guess they will always find a way. Today I got an email FROM Myself, my email address advertising something.

Now I get a phone call that showed up on my caller id as from me and the phone number I was answering. After listening to the message, I talked to the person on the phone, who, in a southeast asian accent, asked me if I was ready to sign up for a DVR with Direct TV. I asked her how she hijacked my number and she hung up.


Any advise or similar experiences? Obviously cannot block this number or email address.


Thanks

Bruce W
 

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Immediately after hanging up you can call the operator tell her what happened and she should be able to tell you where the caller was actually from and report it.
 

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[triennial - points]
The Spam, They Just Keep On A-Coming.

And not just E-Mail spam -- telephone solicitation, too, notwithstanding the Do Not Call registry.

Plus, old-fashioned junk mail via USPS, same as always.

At least that old-fashioned junk mail helps me fill up the recycling bin for curbside pick-up.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​
 

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Immediately after hanging up you can call the operator tell her what happened and she should be able to tell you where the caller was actually from and report it.

I have Comcast Digital Voice and I did call and the rep said she had never heard of this before!!! So I asked her if she would please report it to someone. Yeah, right!!!!
 

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Immediately after hanging up you can call the operator tell her what happened and she should be able to tell you where the caller was actually from and report it.

Actually, they usually can't. They are most likely using an IP (internet) based solution, and several of those providers spoof the caller ID information. Usually, the caller ID information is a phone number of the local internet -> phone network interface that they are using, but it can be spoofed to be anything at that point. For example, if you get a call that shows the caller ID as "Austin, TX" (and other city, state names like that) it's usually a skype or vonage, etc call.

That should be illegal, and I filed comments with the FCC about the practice, because I keep getting calls with spoofed caller ID info from offshore pharmacies that want to sell my ex-wife illegal prescription medication. The IP/internet telephone providers should be required to publish a real phone number in those cases. Unfortunately, if the call originates from a computer, as many of them do, there is no real phone number.

Unfortunately, the only thing you can do about it is to file a complaint with the FCC, and there's no guarantee that will do anything either.

-David
 

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I get several a week

I get several emails from myself every week - it has been going on for months. Fortunately they all end up in my spamblocker and I never open them. What I worry about is having a viral one with my address on it go to a friend.

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I have also started getting spam from myself. For a couple months I've been getting a fresh spam about every half hour from somebody's_name@some domain.com-org-gov etc. 95+% of them get trapped at my ISP's spam filter, but a half dozen or so a day get through. Almost all are offshore pharmacy related and probably over half mention Pfizer or Viagra.

It really accelerated when I got a message that appeared to be from MSN- I suspect was a phish now, asking if I wanted to continue to receive ads from 'trusted retailers' and there was a 'no' or 'decline' or some such that I made the mistake of clicking.

Now I am inundated with this junk, and since nearly every one is from a different domain, I'm unable to engage filters.

Any suggestions other than changing my email address welcomed. Sympathy and empathy appreciated.

Jim Ricks
 

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Every so oftern I get email from myself selling electronics at Euro prices, not in American dollars at all. I scan for viruses every so often, I do have virus protectors on this computer also. Once in a while I go and clean out my captured email addresses. I hate that friends, etc think I am trying to sell them electonics, etc. I got the first one right before Christmas time and the other only about a month ago.:bawl:
 

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Jim, you can try setting up a Message Rule in your email to filter out messages that contain viagra (in all of its spam misspellings) or pfizer, or any other specifically-identifiable keyword. It's useless to block the domain that claims to be the sender, since it's likely a spoofed address from an innocent victim like yourself. But if you tell your email program to filter key words in the title or message body, it'll send things to your spam filter or junk folder. You can retrieve the few accidentally-filtered legitimate messages at your leisure, and delete the rest without wasting your time to view them.

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Jim, you can try setting up a Message Rule in your email to filter out messages that contain viagra (in all of its spam misspellings) or pfizer, or any other specifically-identifiable keyword.

Thanks Dave. I can do that. It won't reduce the garbage that the ISP's spam filter catches but may be a little less annoying when I open my email client. I delete the ISP spam once or twice a week with a few keystrokes anyway so a few more or a few less won't matter.

Jim Ricks
 

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I find the built-in junk filtration in my Thunderbird email client works quite well in catching spam. It learns what you consider to be spam as you mark individual messages as Junk or Not Junk. After a short period of training it does an excellent job.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
 

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Unfortunately it can't handle certain ISP secondary accounts such as my own or I would be using it as it's much more powerful than Outlook Express. The glitch is that it can't send from the secondary accounts but it can receive mail from all of them - I've reviewed all the help files and postings specific to my ISP (Rogers) and no luck at fixing it.

I find the built-in junk filtration in my Thunderbird email client works quite well in catching spam. It learns what you consider to be spam as you mark individual messages as Junk or Not Junk. After a short period of training it does an excellent job.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
 

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Unfortunately it can't handle certain ISP secondary accounts such as my own or I would be using it as it's much more powerful than Outlook Express. The glitch is that it can't send from the secondary accounts but it can receive mail from all of them - I've reviewed all the help files and postings specific to my ISP (Rogers) and no luck at fixing it.

In all probability, it can be configured to do what you want. Now that many ISPs, including Rogers, have partnered with Yahoo to handle their email, there are some Yahoo quirks that must be taken into account.

Yahoo doesn't let you send from a different address through your primary account's SMTP connection.

Two different ways to deal with this have been reported:
  1. To send from additional addresses through your primary SMTP server setup:

    Log into your account via your browser, and add the additional addresses to your main account on your account's webmail page via Options | Mail Addresses | Add. Here's an ATT page describing the process:
    http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/manage/sendfrom-07.html

  2. Set up an additional SMTP entry in TBird for each of these addresses. See this article if you need help doing this: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Multiple_SMTP_servers_-_Thunderbird

If this doesn't do it for you, it's probably better to take this to the Mozillazine Thunderbird support board:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=39
 

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I find the built-in junk filtration in my Thunderbird email client works quite well in catching spam. It learns what you consider to be spam as you mark individual messages as Junk or Not Junk. After a short period of training it does an excellent job.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
I don't mind so much getting the emails from my own email address that are forwarded from my ISP to an email address at a web hosting company. I read the subject line and toss them out immediately.

What I do mind is that I often end up on a SPAM list because someone is sending out SPAM via my domain name email address and when I send an email out, it will get returned to me as I am on that black list so I have to contact the web hosting company to remove me off that list until the next person uses it again. What can I do about that besides changing email addresses often? I use two web hosting companies and both have this happen. Of course, the SPAM is about porno and comes from eastern European countries and Germany too. My girlfriend, in Germany, uses one of the free email addresses as she has no computer so I believe that's where it started from.

Lately, I receive phone calls too on my cell phone but I cannot read where the phone calls are coming from as they aren't listed. It shows nothing or a bunch of zeros so you can't turn them in. These calls are getting more frequent every day. :(
 
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