Another offer I am not able to refuse (wanna bet)

[skomedal]

How come you get so much Spam, JE?

Maybe going to/visiting dubious sites, and bad spamfilter

 

[Lazarus]

Possibly due to using the same email address for many years
(was quite important whilst I was still working as I was registered with lots of agencies)

Ah, then you know the resolution ;)

 

[jeallen01]

Maybe going to/visiting dubious sites, and bad spamfilter

Not visited any such sites that I know (not that way "inclined") - and been using Kaspersky (as well as VM's own) Spam filters for several years, so should not be that, or at least I hope so.

 

[jeallen01]

Ah, then you know the resolution ;)

"too much trouble" and I can live with the "interesting" results - and that means I can continue to "amuse" you all with what comes up

 

[Lazarus]

Fair enough!

 

[PaulR]

I notice that the headers were annotated **SPAM** so they are being flagged up by the ISP or email supplier as possible spams. That's not a problem for me either as I sometimes get those in my inbox (possibly flagged a bit too zealously as some genuine ones get marked as well) and can inspect them judiciously. There are also the ones that go straight into my spam folder which I glance at before consigning them to oblivion.

 

[jeallen01]

I notice that the headers were annotated **SPAM** so they are being flagged up by the ISP or email supplier as possible spams. That's not a problem for me either as I sometimes get those in my inbox (possibly flagged a bit too zealously as some genuine ones get marked as well) and can inspect them judiciously. There are also the ones that go straight into my spam folder which I glance at before consigning them to oblivion.

I take a similar approach - but I'm not sure what is flagging those messages as SPAM - is it the VM ISP system or Kaspersky (having trouble running down exactly which part of the Kaspersky Internet Security Suite is flagging them up)?

Also, another funny thing is that I have two laptops which both run Kaspersky - and more SPAM appears to get through on one than on the other, and I can't understand why!

All in a day's amusing "work"

 

[PaulR]

I think, but am not sure, that it is the email client that you use.

I suspect that you might be using webmail as that is what I use - in my case Yahoo. Now here's a thing: my wife and I both use Yahoo webmail for our Yahoo email addresses. We are both on the emailing list for various clubs and there's one that we both subscribe to where the headers have **SPAM?** when sent to me but not her. They don't end up in the Spam folder so I can't click Not Spam however I have added the sending address to my address book and it STILL ends up with **SPAM?** added to the header - but not always! My wife has not added to her address book but has never had **SPAM?** added to the header so go figure!

 

[jeallen01]

I think, but am not sure, that it is the email client that you use.

I suspect that you might be using webmail as that is what I use - in my case Yahoo.

No, I'm using Outlook 2010 on both machines for my normal VM Blueyonder a/c and my gmail a/c.

Now here's a thing: my wife and I both use Yahoo webmail for our Yahoo email addresses. We are both on the emailing list for various clubs and there's one that we both subscribe to where the headers have **SPAM?** when sent to me but not her. They don't end up in the Spam folder so I can't click Not Spam however I have added the sending address to my address book and it STILL ends up with **SPAM?** added to the header - but not always! My wife has not added to her address book but has never had **SPAM?** added to the header so go figure!

Actually, Kaspersky does not appear to establish a dedicated SPAM folder in Outlook on either m/c , and so all it seems to do is to flag the messages as SPAM, and not divert/block them - this page explains how it seems to work (and I have set the Kaspersky filters to block anything seeming to be "dangerous").

That would seem to "explain" why I get "so many" SPAM messages in my Inboxes!

So I then:
- add flagged SPAM message senders' email addresses to the Outlook Blocked Senders List, but the messages remain in the Outlook Intray at that point.
- and highlight the messages as (right click list) "Junk" and then "Block Sender", and then the messages get transferred to the Outlook Junk E-mail folder, and then I generally don't seem to get any more from those Blocked Senders in my Intrays.

PS: had a whole new bunch this morning from, probably spurious, job sites.

 

[Lazarus]

re. your "PS"

Well, let's see 'em .......

 

[jeallen01]

An example (from the Junk folder, which shows the actual website addresses)



and there are 4 more like the above from
- malejoblist (Sexist even!)
- employmentalerts.co.uk
- careeracclaim.net
- buttonjobs.co.uk

Not surprisingly, they all use PO Box addresses with very similar Box Nos - and the first and last both use the same one, supposedly in Poole, Dorset!

Never heard of any of those before (in many years of looking for jobs - although not now unless someone offers to pay me a lot of money for doing SFA!)

 

[jeallen01]

Today there have been "interesting " evolutions to those spamming job site emails:
- they have changed the naming prefixes before the "@" symbols in the sending email addresses, and so I got similar ones again.
- however, in one of them, I experimentally clicked on the "unsubscribe" link, and it took me here

And that showed this

So this a "great" site if I want to find a job in Austin, Texas

I'm guessing that all the other ones highlighted are also emanating from that area!

 

[Lazarus]

So now you've confirmed your E Mail address is active and can expect an even bigger deluge of Spam.

 

[jeallen01]

So now you've confirmed your E Mail address is active and can expect an even bigger deluge of Spam.

That could happen, as I understood before I did it - we will see!

So, maybe even more "stuff" to amuse you

 

[scopus]

That could happen, as I understood before I did it - we will see!

So, maybe even more "stuff" to amuse you

I never click on any links on E mails, always go in through the front door on the the site itself, and certainly not on on E mails that look like spam in the first place! Why give yourself headache?

 

[jeallen01]

Ola!
How's this for a slightly "new" one:


Over to our Spanish-speaking friends for a "translation", maybe

 

[jeallen01]

From all parts of the World

 

[PaulR]

I've often wondered why the sum is always so unfeasibly large and curiously precise. Surely if they were to limit the scam to the thousands they would be less obvious?

 

[Channel Hopper]

From all parts of the World
View attachment 111749

Is Mr Wong a pirate ?

 

[jeallen01]

"The Bigger the Fish", the more likely ("they" think!) the more likely it is that someone will "bite" - and catching one like that means less work is involved in "eating" it