Re: Unstoppable picture spam.

Johnnie <[email protected]> Mon, 15 May 2006 22:44:07 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spamcop.help
Organization SpamCop
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Søren Jacob Lauritsen wrote:
> Hello there!
> 
> Four times a day since the end of April, I have been blessed with 
> e-mails containing text as pictures. I'm pretty sure they're from the 
> same source. They all share the same "look": Text on a colored 
> background (light red or light green). The contents of the text differs 
> from time to time.
> 
> Have anybody received these e-mails? The spammer seems to be 
> unstoppable. So any suggestions would be nice. It's the first time, I 
> haven't been able to stop them within a few days.

Not only have I received them, the people who send them have used two of 
my domains as return addresses so I get dozens of bounces a day.

The spammer is unstoppable and untraceable as he/she uses zombies to do 
the mailing.  I just wish he/she would move on to someone elses' domain!!

It is filterable as both Yahoo and Broghtmail put the emails in the spam 
folder and about 60% of the bounces too.

Filtering them is easy as you can just filter out anything that is all 
or almost all picture and is not from anyone in your address book.