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Update 6pm: I’ve since learned that this is something that happens to people for a few days at a time with someone abusing a mailing program from Chilkat Software Inc. (which is listed under X-Mailer in the headers). Apparently they claim zero responsibility for this, despite the fact that they wrote it!!
I don’t know why it stops (causing you to delete lots of unwanted emails in the meantime), or even why it started, but I’d love to have a word with the creators…
Midday: I’m with 1&1.co.uk and since 7.15am, I’ve had been getting hundreds of spam emails, all from various random email addresses and my complaints to 1&1 are proving completely fruitless, despite my pointing out that the content of the email is very similar indeed.
I’d just signed up to a particular recruitment agency last night, but I note that some of the spam is mentioning a different one in the subject title, Monster, and I’ve forwarded the content of one of them to them. An example of one at random is at the bottom of this post.
When I contacted 1&1 and gave them my details, I got this response:
“Dear Dominic Robinson,
Thank you for contacting us.
Regarding spam issue, there are so manny spammers all over the world and we cannot control those people because they are using different kinds of email. The thing we found out here in our database is that your spam filtering in your email is off. That is why you are receiving many spam email in your email all you have to do is to enable your sapm filtering in your email
. Please follow the steps bellow on how to enable your spam filtering:
– Log in to the 1&1 Control Panel using your Customer ID OR domain name and your password at: http://admin.1and1.co.uk
– Click the “E-mail Administration” link from the Communication & Online Storage.
– Put a check on the box beside your email (email address removed)
then click “Spam Filtering” button.
– Adjust the settings to “High” then click “OK”.
– Then go to overview, you can see there that your spam filtering in your email has a check. That indicates that the spam filtering is enabled.
If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us.”
I replied to say that I hadn’t changed anything beforehand and that the spam all exploded at the same time this morning at 7.15am.
They then replied with the following:
“Dear Dominic Robinson,
Thank you for contacting us.
Since if that is your case and still receiving spam on your email and it will still send a spam message. Since we cant help it because there are too many spammers in the world. The last option to do is to black list those email address that sends you that spam. Here are the steps on how to black list those email address of spammers:
– Log in to the 1&1 Control Panel using your Customer ID OR domain name and your password at: http://admin.1and1.co.uk
– Click the “E-mail Administration” link from the Communication & Online Storage.
– Put a check on the box beside your email (email address removed)
then click “Spam Filtering” button.
– On the Personal Filter List you can see the blacklist and whitelist. On the Blacklist part click “edit ” then input the email address of the spammer who sends you a spam email then click “OK”.
If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us.”
Then after I was out for a while, I replied back at 11.49am with this:
“Dear 1&1, this is simply NOT good enough.
There are hundreds of different emails coming through all with random addresses, sometimes with different addresses generating similar subject titles, but the content within is all very similar indeed. Below is an example email of this.
In the past 90 minutes, your system has weeded out around 600 items of spam, while a load more got through. As such, another 200 or so got trapped by spamcop, which I’m subscribed to, and then several hundred more emails are getting through to my inbox itself and into my Outlook program.
You’ve got to do something about this!! Please refer this higher. This is NOT just a case of “many spammers”, this is clearly all coming from the same place. Please trace it and sort it out immediately.”
And here is the example I email I referred to earlier:
“From: npassot@comcast.net [mailto:npassot@comcast.net]
Sent: 07 October 2011 11:54
Subject: Jay Rodriguez – Mount Lam Tech
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Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.