SPAM spam spam SPAM (remember the Python song?)

[FenceFurniture]

Gotta love those spammers. I sent this reply to one just now. Be interesting to see if it works.

TAKE ME OFF YOUR LIST, OTHERWISE I WILL ORGANISE ALL MY SEVERAL THOUSAND MEMBERS TO EMAIL BOMB YOU!!!!!

GRRRRR!!!

You would do well to take me seriously. Your emails are unsolicited, and unwelcome.

JUST DO IT, AND DO NOT REPLY - EVER!

[Sturdee]

Having replied and given a active email address you will now go on more lists and your address sold to more spammers.

The best thing to do is to never even acknowledge it.


Peter.

[Geoff Dean]

Bad move, all you have done is confirm an active email address.

[FenceFurniture]

Well, I see how it goes. I may well change the addy anyway, so it may not be that big a deal. Currently I get about 2-3 spams per week, so if that increases I'll know that You were right and I was wr...wr....wr....wrong.

[FenceFurniture]

Sturdee & Geoff

How is this then? I have aslo changed the o to a 0. I realise that the best way is to put up a Jpeg image of it, but non-members can't see them.

[Sturdee]

Brett, that would be fine as they normally harvest email addresses using botts. I would also alter the @ sign with space at(word) space . Normal people should know how to substitute that.


Peter.

[Wongo]

Send me your credit card details and I will take you off the list right away.

[FenceFurniture]

Cheers Peter. I did that - actually I was going to do that originally, but because of the "brettinkat" I eschewed it.

[Scott]

Sturdee & Geoff

How is this then? I have aslo changed the o to a 0. I realise that the best way is to put up a Jpeg image of it, but non-members can't see them.

Best way is to include your email address as an image then use the image. At the end of the day, if you ignore and have a good spam prevention tool (i.e. spam sieve) then you don't have to worry. I haven't seen any spam in my inbox for over a year however spam sieve's statistics tell me I get roughly 30-40 a day.

Peter is right though, don't respond. At all. Ever.

[ubeaut]

Best way to email is to use the Forums email if you have signed in for it as it is a blind email address and doesn't show the address to anyone but the receiver of the email.

To use it click on members name in this case FenceFurniture and in the dro-pdown click on Send email to FenceFurniture and you're ready to go.

What you did was bordering dumb stupid not really smart. Best thing to do with spam is ignore and delete.... get a good spam filter or an email guard where email senders have to prove they are genuine before their email is accepted.

Putting your email on an open forum like this IS a dumb idea, even using things like .c0m isn't smart. Spammers now use kids to troll sites looking for such things and although it's a pittance they are paid for each one they get. Wouldn't be hard to get a heap od addresses in a couple of hours. Tool 1.57 seconds to find 256 gmail addresses on here with Search all posts, and guess what you don't even have to be registered to do this..So, even 1 cent each it's pretty easy money for some third world kid. or a robot.

A robot may not get your very cryptic
brettinkat
'at'
gmail . c0m
but it would be dead easy for even the dumbest of humans to work out and pass on.

LONG STORY SHORT:
Don't use email addresses on these forums if you don't want to get spammed, scammed or otherwise violated.

By the way that not so clever one above now makesit 257 gmails in the search.

Cheers - Neil

PS Currently there are 1425 @yahoo listings on here

[Groggy]

I don't think Neil was really trying, my quick search, just for gmail addresses, made me $25.30.

I made another $18.20 on yahoo.

I might become a .com brazillionaire at this rate.

[ubeaut]

Yeah... Easy money, eh Greg.
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PS to my previous post.

Never a good idea to threaten a spammer, especially with something you can't deliver "your many thousand members" and if you ever intend to ask forum members to email the spammer you are worse no better than the original spammer.

Besides you can bet the spammers have really good spam filters.

[Sturdee]

if you ever intend to ask forum members to email the spammer you are worse no better than the original spammer.

and it would give them thousands of live email addresses.


Peter.

[FenceFurniture]

Jaysus, ok, ok already!

[bsrlee]

There are several commercial anti-spam services - just submit the spammers email address to a few of them & the commercial filter people will black list their site/s - quite a lot of ISP's use a commercial pre-filter on their email servers which will, at least for a while, block the spam to a whole slew of people. If they are big time offenders their base numeric code will be listed instead of just the DNS translation.