Question
Don't know how new this is or anything - but I know one of the pieces of advice to ID a spoof is those "Dear Paypal Customer" intros.
This one was a fake payment receive for a payment for a watch and it started:
"Dear (My first name) (My last name):"
I'm spooked!
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katiyana,
You just gave me a spam filter idea. I already caught most of my spam by searching for their email client name that they all seem to like in the header. I was eliminating them by sender IP address, although some are apparently overwriting even that.
The "Dear PayPal Customer" is a decent body filter. Mark the item for inspection, suspected spoof. Ditto "Dear eBay Customer". Of course, there was one email PayPal sent out once that I caught which didn't say my name. I hope they got tons of those back at the spoof at paypal dot com address so they know next time not to send them like that.
Next to nothing spam or spoof makes it into the inbox these days. I especially inspect any with an attachment too and they don't make it into the inbox.
I love MailWasher... and Qurb's embedded filter catches any others.
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How do you block ip addresses?
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Originally Posted by mysteriouscutie
How do you block ip addresses?
Easy. You view all the headers from your spammy email and add the originating (non-faked) ones to your blocked list in your email reader. You can always run any suspect email through spamcop.net or any of the other spam reporting services to get the real IP of the originator. Only useful if you get a high volume from the same source.
Most are from compromised Windows PCs - aka spambots. In this case you need to alert their ISP to kill their broadband connection (if they haven't already done so).