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What are the odds. Three minutes before I popped in, we started getting support spam. I whacked 4-5 but I expect they'll keep coming.

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We are getting a burst of posts all from IP 180.188.224.184 Wouldn't be a concern except they are all similar in content but from five different usernames (they come in pairs). Anything to be concerned about? If it was on the up-and-up, why use multiple accounts? Jason_54 How do I …

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OK, so there's no problem, just curiosity. Looked at my User Panel and checked on a thread I commented in yesterday and it's gone. The +rep I got in that thread is gone too from my list of commented posts, and I have more up-voted posts in my statistics(63) than …

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It's all too easy to think that spam is an old problem, and one that has largely been dealt with. Certainly, many people will tell you that they see very little evidence of spam in their mailboxes. This, however, has less to do with the demise of the spammer and …

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On the plus side, there certainly seems to have been a drop in spam activity since the new UI went live. I suspect the spamming hoardes don't like it very much :)

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Skype used to have a setting that would allow me to block all unsolicited contact requests. Shortly after Microsoft acquired Skype this feature was removed. I used to get 2-3 requests per week and it was easy enough to delete-and-report-abuse although I suspect nobody ever actually looked at these reports. …

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[B]A professional e-mail address[/B] is defined as one that, in its entirety, represents and reflects the professional interests of the user or owner of the e-mail address itself. A professional e-mail address forms a constituent part of how individuals or organisations actively market their products, services, skills, or professional objectives. …

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Some interesting [research](http://www.proofpoint.com/threatinsight/posts/phishing-in-europe.php) from security outfit Proofpoint was published this morning which reveals that unsolicited email heading towards users in the UK is three times more likely to contain malicious URLs than that destined for users in the United States, or Germany, or France for that matter. It's not, as …

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My email address, business logo and picture have been hijacked. I have been getting emails from my own email address with my business logo attached offering me a job. Most recently I recieved an email from a meetup group with my email address from a group that I am not …

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I had noticed a lot of returned mails with spam content arriving daily. i renewed the old mailing scripts (which was overdue) to include jquery clientside(irrelevant i know) and serverside switched to phpmailer adding a captcha as well as the existing honeytrap that i had before. now although less im …

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hi all :) i've problem with spam email in ubuntu 1204 LTS use ispconfig3,... each spam email detected by server (ispconfig3) it's not send to client (outlook), its stopped in sever,.. how to allow/by pass all email contain spam to client??? what must i set??? please help me :(

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The inboxes get flooded with spam mails and searching for the really useful emails from the junk becomes more and more difficult. Is there some way to stop this other than marking each such mail as spam?

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Greetings, I have a site that was created back when the dinosaours were around and of course there is a feedback form that wasn't secure and was generating spam via injections. I have implemented my typical measures; CAPTCHA, preg_match, trim, stripslashes, strip_tags, and even preg_replace. Still the spam continues. I …

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Hi! I am facing a problem that i have redirected a website to the new one in htaccess but google webmaster is showing the "Links to Your Site" problem in webmaster and according to my knowledge this problem is very critical and serious. Is there any solution to get rid …

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Actually this is a common problem for all who work with php mail function. Before I start this new thread, search for 2 days a proper/correct solution for my probem. But i couldn't find of any. When I send email through my web site, It is sent as spam to …

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Hello, So I am a php novice. The company I work for has been getting a lot of spam via our contact form lately so I need to secure it, which I have done with adding a hidden field that if the form is autofilled it will not send. But …

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A New Zealand company is [URL="http://businessblogs.co.nz/2010/07/18/suspended-on-twitter-businesses-be-very-worried/"]reporting [/URL]that its Twitter account has been suspended due to “Updates consisting mainly of links, and not personal updates" -- which, if true, means that any other business that posts a lot of links could suffer the same fate. "I suspect the Reuters account [url]http://twitter.com/reuters[/url] …

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Writing in the latest edition of Vanity Fair, [Kurt Eichenwald states](http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/05/facebook-future-mark-zuckerberg-sheryl-sandberg) that Facebook has "quietly been pioneering a marketing business model unlike any other" and goes on to praise the social networking Goliath for developing new targeting techniques that give "advertisers an unprecedented ability to reach only the potential audiences …

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If you were asked to paint a verbal picture of the Internet in just five words, would they be porn, drugs, spam, Twitter and zombies? After analyzing an amazing two billion emails a day for three months, that's the image arrived at by one research outfit. [attach]15822[/attach]The latest [URL="http://www.commtouch.com/download/1753"]Internet Threat …

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The latest VIPRE Report from [GFI Labs](http://www.gfi.com) suggests that 2013 started off as a bad year for social network-based cybercrime attacks. The report, which analysed the ten most prevalent threats detected during the month of January, identified phishing messages on both Twitter and Facebook as well as malicious spam messages …

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How forum admins Mark the users as spammers and is there any strategy ? how to overcome this blocking by doing spamming successfully?

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Think of apps and you probably think of your smartphone. After all, Apple pretty much built an iPhone empire around the concept of apps and users of Android and Windows handsets are just as hooked. Truth be told though, and this 'Age of Apps' has spread far beyond the smartphone …

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The media, online and off, has been full of scare stories about the 'biggest Internet attack ever' and how a distributed denial of service (DDoS) campaign aimed against anti-spam outfit Spamhaus peaked at an attack volume of 300 Gbps (the highest ever recorded by those who record such things) was …

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This one nearly escaped my radar, and does not seem to have ruffled many news source feathers either. Which is surprising, because in my never humble opinion it is actually quite an important bit of news. The Virginia Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of Jeremy Jaynes (the 8th …

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McAfee publish a list of the top 10 spam subject lines, because of the work done by their threat research and filtering labs as well as customer feedback, and the latest for July shows how the spammer is now concentrating more on ID theft and less on helping you achieve …

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Think of spam and chances are your mind immediately turns to China or Russia and messages about sexual dysfunction or a financial deal you cannot believe. Maybe, though, your thoughts should be closer to home. Especially if home is in the United States. [ATTACH=RIGHT]22797[/ATTACH]According to the latest research from security …

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Hello Everyone, Please accept my simple and humble contribution. This script will validate if the user or visitor is a suspected spammer, by utilizing the stopforumspam API. Example implementation ## example usage. These items can be from database or from form input. The choice of implementation is all up to …

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Just curious as to how to report spam here or if it should be reported at all. I received an email from babyl which reads: > Hello >My name is amaram I am tall ,good looking, perfect body figure and sexy.I saw your profile and was delighted to contact you, …

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I'm trying to think of better ways to fight spam than having a captcha that a user needs to fill in. I've considered emailing a confirmation link to the user that they need to click in order to send the message they filled out in the form, but with Google …

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I am creating a website although during a trial run with a couple of friends they uncovered a bit of a major issue.... the ability to spam. I have added a hidden box e.t.c. to attempt to prevent bots from spamming but my friends where able to post twenty messages …

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