I think that something has been going on for a bit now. However, I did go through some ancient spam emails (don't ask me why they were still around, I plumb forgot they were accumulating) and found quite a few of them posing as family members and people I knew, but were not legitimate. Examining the headers showed they were trying to fool me. All of them wanted me to click on some link - hoping to do some nefarious thing or another to me. Many were from RU.
Oh, I have been using the filters! I have filtered every domain ending in xyz, .store and a few others. It's not as easy to filter against yourself... Is it better to have these messages go to junk, or direct to trash? Using Thunderbird if that matters. On 3/8/23 5:22 PM, Ronald Smith wrote: > Hi all, > > There is a coordinated attack happening right now on many forms of > communication; email, social media, everything -- someone doesn't want people > communicating right now. The increase in spam is just part of it. > > Emails that I've sent to gmail have been bounced, maybe because gmail has > tightened their filters, maybe it's a false flag. I'm not sure and I'm not > going waste my time tracking it down right now. If someone wants to reach me, > they can just call me on the phone. > > To the guy who said you should block all the IP's in the header -- that's > ABSOLUTELY WRONG! Whoever has launched this attack wants folks to do that -- > they want folks to block stuff to further limit communication. Don't do that! > > You can only trust the top "Received" notice in your email header. SMTP > servers are supposed to tack on their info to the top of the message and send > it along to the next server, but spammers or provocateurs will often falsify > the tracking info below the most recent "Received" line, so you should just > ignore that. > > Just put up with the spam for now; don't over-react. Your email providers > will know how to handle this if they have enough experience. Use the filters > in your client if you need to. > > Have fun... > > Ronald Smith > r...@mrt4.com > 603-360-1000 > > - - - - > > On Wed, 8 Mar 2023 13:31:56 -0500 > Bruce Labitt <bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net> wrote: > >> Seems to be an uptick in spam received lately. Doesn't seem that my ISP >> is on top of it. In the past 48 hours have received at least three >> dozen spams from similar parties. Many seem to be coming from *.store >> domains. I haven't knowingly ever visited one of these domains. >> >> I don't think I want to run my own email server - mostly because 1) I >> really don't know how to set one up, and 2) it sounds like a bit of work >> to maintain. Of course, I could be wrong, which is why I am asking. >> >> I did a whois, and due to privacy cr*p, there's no longer a way to get >> to the registrants. I can see why this might be, but it does make it >> harder to report people. I did report a couple of domains as spammers >> to godaddy, since I *think* they were the registrar. This really >> doesn't seem kosher to me, since godaddy gets revenue from the >> spammers. I also reported a domain or two to my ISP. Things have >> slightly slowed down, but I am not holding my breath. >> >> In my wife's case, one or more of her acquaintances (with Windows >> computers?) have had their accounts compromised or information stolen, >> and she has been super subscribed to what seems like dozens and dozens >> of spamming lists. Her spam folder on her phone receives may hundreds >> of emails a day - it's really out of control. How can we get out of >> this mess? >> >> Anyways, are there any practical ways to get a better handle on this? >> Looking for some ideas. Thanks for any and all suggestions. I hope >> this would be a topic of interest to others on this list. If for no >> other reason to share what worked and what didn't. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnhlug-discuss mailing list >> gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org >> http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
