Email Spam

[zappaDPJ]

Until recently I rarely got spam on my IDNet account but I'm now being spammed out of existence and it's all taking the same format e.g.

للبيع قطعه في خليج سلمان مخطط 3 / ج / س رقمها 2667 بمساحة 900 متر مربع و شارع 32 متر مطلوب فيها 500 ألف ريال قابل للتفاوض

مباشر

أبومحمد 0556161512


It is the word of Allah (the creator)... and it is FEATH... where you find yourself and take it to the right, the right and the right....
Please press on http://www.tvquran.com/

--
لقد تلقيت هذه الرسالة لأنك مشترك في مجموعات Google‏ مجموعة "بن عائش
العقارية".
لإرسال هذا إلى هذه المجموعة، قم بإرسال بريد إلكتروني إلى
banayesh@googlegroups.com
لإلغاء الاشتراك في هذه المجموعة، ابعث برسالة إلكترونية إلى
banayesh+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com
لخيارات أكثر، الرجاء زيارة المجموعة على
http://groups.google.com/group/banayesh?hl=ar?hl=ar
لمعرفة المزيد من التفاصيل عن مجموعة بن عائش العقارية :
http://www.aqarcity.com/t86340.html
نستقبل طلباتكم وعروضكم العقارية برسالةsmsعلى 0556061361
ملاحظة : كل رسالة تمثل كاتبها وليس المجموعة

The one thing all these mails seem to have in common is @googlegroups.com and the Arabic text. I'm just wondering if anyone else is receiving anything similar. I'm also wondering how I can stop it because I'm getting hundreds of the damn things.

[sparkler]

http://www.google.com/support/groups/bin/answer.py?&answer=81275

[Simon]

Nothing like that here, Zap. 

[Ray]

Nothing here either, Zap, rarely see any spam on my Idnet addresses at all.

[zappaDPJ]

Thanks, it's probably just me then.

http://www.google.com/support/groups/bin/answer.py?&answer=81275

I'll give that a go, thanks for the link

[Rik]

Another 'nothing here', Zap.

[armadillo]

Another "nothing here". I just do not get any spam. On the rare occasions that I have done, I just delete the email address that receives it.

[zappaDPJ]

Another "nothing here". I just do not get any spam. On the rare occasions that I have done, I just delete the email address that receives it.

Unfortunately this is hundreds of emails all on different sender address but all coming from the same source.

[Simon]

The phrase, 'You've been had' springs to mind, Zap.

[zappaDPJ]

Yeah and because I don't read Arabic I have no idea if there's anything on offer I might actually want. Knowing my luck it's probably camels rather than a bevy of dancing girls though

[.Griff.]

It's trying to sell you Real Estate 

[Simon]

Unless they think you know of a new supply of virgins.   

[Gary]

I had a bunch from Chinese and Russian domains once, can you just block the country it came from like @ru.com as am example?

[armadillo]

Unfortunately this is hundreds of emails all on different sender address but all coming from the same source.

You mean you receive these on different email accounts, i.e. more than one "to" address receives them? If so, you are really unlucky. I have never had the same spam being received by more than one email account.

[zappaDPJ]

No sorry, I mean the sender is sending it out on different email accounts but it's all coming from the same sender.

[armadillo]

Yes, that is very common, especially as a lot of these spam emails get sent out by hijacked zombie PCs whose owners do not even know they have been hijacked.

But deleting your email account that is receiving them is the best way I know to stop getting them and far better than messing with filters. That is why I have so many email addresses. Most spam arrives very soon after giving out an email address to a previously unknown contact. Deleting that address does not inconvenience anybody else but the one person (or company) I gave it to and it stops the spam before it is a deluge. I have never had spam on any of the several email addresses that I give to well trusted people or companies. If I did, I would tell them so that they could check their own PCs.

[zappaDPJ]

Unfortunately I think you are right about deleting the address being the only real solution. Thanks for the advice and feedback on this

[sparkler]

Yes, that is very common, especially as a lot of these spam emails get sent out by hijacked zombie PCs running Windows whose owners are to stupid to realize they have been hijacked.

/fixed