My latest pet hate is requests to complete a “short survey” or “offer feedback”. They almost always take more than a few minutes, meaning its costing me time and money. They are taking longer and longer, more questions, and on one survey, asking questions that were not related to the interaction. After a purchase online […]
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Managing SPAM 2022: SpamBully
OK, OK, I hear you.. here he goes again, banging on about spam! To give you some idea of how bad spam is for us.. on an average day we receive over 1,000 spam messages .. yes, a day! Many of the messages include phishing and hacking code. In September 2022, time caught up with […]
spamrl.com – UN-Reputable Blacklist
spamrl.com users are urged to rethink any association with this blacklist We have researched spamrl.com and cannot find any information about the company, location or how they source their data (IP Address). What Next Consider a reputable blacklist (Spamhaus and Spamcop) IP Address blocked by spamrl.com – take weeks to unblock Threads There were hundreds.. […]
How to Block Repeat Spammers
Anti-Spam software developers use this logic to build block lists! Here is the simple logic.. Spammers use known email address lists! Lists sold online. Spammers send the same message to multiple email addresses.. the same “display name”, same “title”, same sending “email address domain”, same “body content”, so software developers use these “known” factors into their […]
Mailing List Software: Best by a mile! aWeber
One of the best ways of marketing and a must for every website is a mailing list. Don’t miss the opportunity of a new customer when they visit your website simply by getting them to subscribe to your mailing list. Now you understand why, lets move onto software.. There are two forms of mailing list […]
Optus Mail Block Review
Optus Spam & Phishing Filter is out of touch and a waste of time! Everyone has their own software. We use AVG and SPAMFighter. We simply do NOT need Optus filtering our mail. Customers should be able to opt-out. The filter constantly blocks good emails sent to known customers and brand companies. I don’t have […]
Outlook: Sender DISPLAY Name Messsage Rule
How to manage emails by DISPLAY name. Display name is the name given to the field we see in the Inbox, sometimes confused as the Sender Name. For many years this proved to be an issue because AntiVirus (AVG), SPAMFighter and Outlook were unable to deal with spam emails from repetitive senders. Message rules failed […]
Stop, Breathe and Think before Clicking
Shoppers must “think” before they click as fraudsters come out in force during sales like Frenzy, Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Boxing Day. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s deputy chair Delia Rickard has warned consumers “to stop, breathe and think before clicking on things” . “Shoppers are time poor and we don’t think as much […]
Spam Emails: trаnsfer 0.5 bitcоins
Has anyone else received “trаnsfer 0.5 bitcоins” message over the past few days (August-September 2018)? We’re receiving 100 an hour. To make matters worse, setting up a rule to deal with them doesn’t work. First I tried: “bitcоins” and then “0.5 bitcоins” but the rule does not remove all the messages. Any suggestions? From: MiguelGyday […]
Spam Emails: No Senders Email Address
The latest bout of spam emails flooding in is proving to be very difficult to combat. The usual practice of using rules to manage them is more time consuming than deleting them one by one. SPAMfighter is not dealing with them. The issue is that each message has a different: Senders name Senders email address […]
Hotmail Blocklist (S3150)
No-one likes spam specially HOTMAIL. Personally, I’d rather HOTMAIL adopted the Gmail approach of moving suspected spam into a spam folder instead of rejecting the email. In this case, HOTMAIL has determined my Internet Service Provider’s IP Address is blocked, not me or my IP address but the entire network. My ISP is Optus (Australia) so effectively, […]
How To Block Senders Name: Outlook
Yes, me again, raving on about how to deal with spam emails. Today I have good news. I get hundreds emails every day that are spam often from the same name. One of the issues that filters have trouble dealing with is spammers that use one name but different sending email addresses. Now, I have […]
Spam Idea: Outsmarting Spammers
I’ve got an idea how to automate moving spam from the inbox direct to the delete folder: I operate a publishing company with multiple email addresses. Every day, spam messages flood in with the “same” spam message going to multiple email addresses. Doesn’t this mean, this is a way of identifying spam> Isn’t this an […]
Domain Name Spam
It was only a matter of time. Register a new domain name and watch the emails flood in, and lately, phone calls as well. Spam offers Search engine registration (SEO) Logo design Website design Hosting services Renew domain These are all products and services we offer so it’s a matter of dealing with them. Fantastic […]
Spam: See Your Invoice
August 2016 – The latest round of spam emails invite the reader to view an invoice that is attached to the email. What I find alarming is the spammer has managed to send these spam emails to email addresses which are not in the public domain. They are email addresses we setup for specific use, […]
Natalie McDonnell & Tim Jackson Spam
The spam started being sent by Pat Taylor, followed by Patrick Weddel, then Audrey Simmons, and now, it’s Natalie McDonnell. The latest batch of spam emails have been rolling in at the rate of 3 an hour for over a week from two names: Natalie McDonnell and Tim Jackson. Yes, very easy to fix, send […]
Jessica Easton | GoDaddy.com Spam
Does the SPAM from these people ever end? First the name was Pat Taylor from Improve Biz Rankings, then she became he with Patrick Weddel from Improve Biz Rankings, then Audrey Simmons from Online Reputation Management, now today (Jukly 16, 2015) it is Jessica Easton from Grow Business Rankings. This time round, same number of emails, […]
More Spam from Audrey Simmons
When I see an inbox with half a dozen emails all addressed from the same person with the same message, I smell a rat. A new round of emails are from the same people who were previously sending spam that I posted about some time ago. Pat Taylor – Improve Biz Rankings Patrick Weddel – Improve Biz […]
Spam Queen | Pat Taylor – Improve Biz Rankings
I have to admit, repetitive spam emails drive me crazy! You know the ones, they arrive 10 at a time or regularly throughout the day. I have explained in other posts how I employ software to deal with spam and virus email like AVG (Anti-Virus Protection) and SPAMfighter which combined filter out most bad emails. […]
Hoodwink the Spammer
A mate of mine asked the other day what do I do about spam email? My answer = nothing. As I have already posted, I use SPAMFIGHTER and AVG software to help me fight the ever present scourge that is spam and viruses. On the average day, over 1,000 emails are dynamically sent to one […]
Bank Scam Emails
Lets start this with a simple warning.. Your bank will never email you about security.. NEVER, ever, won’t, ever, never!!! Do you understand? Your bank will not email you about anything to do with logging in… ever! If you log in from an email, you are STUPID! Sorry, I mean’t to say, if you login […]
Spam, spam everywhere spam!
The song went signs, signs, everywhere signs, I think it was in the late 60’s or early 70,s, but in 2013, the song would be rewritten.. Spam, spam everywhere spam It doesn’t seem to matter what I do, I am faced with an ever growing inbox full of emails from people and companies I’ve never […]