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Originally Posted by Admin
Maybe after reporting their IP address to their ISPs they will quit? What do you think?  |
I realise the messages were posted by some knucklehead looking to make a quick buck, but this really wasn't spam, as someone had to login and post those messages here in the forums.
Insofar as real spam, reporting to ISP won't work in the real world. The issues with real spam is they use "throw away" addresses. They'll sign up for DSL somewhere, send out a billion messages, and walk away from the account. By the time anyone gets around to reporting them, the office is literally cleaned out. Another ploy that's used is they bounce a few messages off known open relay hosts. Just enough (5 or 10 messages) to not cause an alarm at the host being used, then move on to new host. Rinse. Repeat.
The spammers are very clever. They send graphic images of the spam message, with some baloney miscellaneous words & text wrapped around it to throw off spam filters. The graphic image changes 1 pixel each time, so you can't checksum the graphic.
This spam situation is really getting out of hand. Of the 200,000 inbound messages last month at our company, 80 percent is spam. Of the 20 percent that got by the filters, I suspect half that is also spam.