Heaps of Mortgage Spams

[ChrisX]

I received heaps of spams, the same message promoting mortgage on a low rate of 1.8%.

The spams show up to five times day into my POP ISP address.

I can't get out of it, remove myself. The domain @yahoo.com is mostly used as a fake "from" and "reply" address. Yahoo tells me that they are forged.

I got Yahoo's SpamGuard to take care of these repeating pestering spams.

Did anybody get spams like this:

Today is a new day for your residence. With levels
at their headline-making historic lows, our programs
are better now than ever before. Even if you've recently
closed on a property, now is the time to check your
numbers.

Our advisors are here to help you decide your options.
In fact, did you know that a 30 year fixed program may
not always be the best option?

There are other ways to do it, and we would like to tell
you about it.

Find out what all your neighbors are talking about:

Today's low rate: 1.8%

[holistic]

1.8 % - damn I wish I had got that rate when I renewed last year.

Setup filters to look for key words maybe (say 1.8 ). I mean, how many people do you know send you mortgage info?

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[ChrisX]

1.8 % - damn I wish I had got that rate when I renewed last year.

Setup filters to look for key words maybe (say 1.8 ). I mean, how many people do you know send you mortgage info?

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I just got another one and a different spam, this time like this "need a job change". Another one I remember on pills.

It came as an explosion of junk mail all this week. I've been getting heaps of them, now dozens of the pests. They won't go away and can be several in one day.

It is going into my private ISP address and this never happened before like this. They are very annoying and I am not even in America as most of these ads are based in the U.S.

Yes, I have to apply filters to block them out and thanks for your suggestion of using the 1.8%.

If these pests get so bad and I will have to contact my ISP for cessation of this address and a new one.

[redwudz]

I've been through that. My ISP lets me have 5 email addresses and I reply only to close friends with my primary. I slipped up and let my primary out and the only thing I could do is change it to get rid of spam. The best is to use, say a Hotmail address for 99% of your email addresses when you register, etc. I can tell you filters don't work that well. They use a different return address every time. The fedgov is going after spam mail, but that will only move it offshore. Most ISP's are now doing extensive filtering to lower the quanity. I get viagra, all kinds of crap that I have no interest in. Now they are talking of adding 'postage' to email to limit spam.

[Craig Tucker]

I use spampal for my pop email. Works really well, most of this crap comes from china or korea so its easy to filter out by its country of origin, assuming of course you get no legitimate email from these places. I probrably get over 50-75 spam emails a day and only 1 or 2 will get through spampals net.

[sterno]

I just looked through my spam folder at what's come in over the past 12 hours. Most of them are for online drug sales. There are also a handful of mortgage and cable descrambler messages. Lately I've gotten quite a lot of "make money on ebay" spam, too.

I used to get around 300-400 legitimate messages and 100+ junk per day. I've finally pruned down the incoming mail to under 100, but I still get ~100 junk in a 24-hour period. Usually 5-10 will make it past SpamAssassin with the configuration I use now.

[northcat_8]

I use mailwasher, which scans the email from the server so I don't actually "receive" it. I can delete, blacklist and bounce the email so I don't actually recieve it in my inbox. It has worked very well. I also set up a phish account to use anytime I sign up for anything online. It's a pretty useful little tool. I don't receive any spam to my home address and very little to my hotmail address...but a truckload at work where I don't use it. (we have macs...G3 macs )