Porn spam on the rise

[Phantasm66]

God I hate it! There's nothing worse than opening your mail box to find some unsolicited rubbish about having sex with school girls (yeah, sure they are.... or wait, read on, perhaps they are ) when its easy enough to find that sort of thing on the internet anyway.

If I want to look at porn, believe me I can find it. I don't need it poured into my mail box every morning. And I certainly don't need references to bestiality and paedophilia. :evil:

One thing that makes me very angry is that a child could sign up for a hotmail account quite innocently, and then get bombared with this stuff.

I have one hotmail account that gets about 150 mails a day. 99 per cent of this is spam and about 80-90 per cent of that is porn stuff. (The rest being the usual BS about debt consolidation, getting a "free" degree and what's the best way to make my male anatomy 2 x bigger... )

I also question whether this sort of unsolicited mail is even a very good means of advertisement at all. I believe that the vast majority of people find this kind of thing so annoying that even if they did happen to read a spam that thought was interesting they would not buy anything on principal.

More is to the point, I believe that spam is so annoying that practically no one at all even reads it.

I move that it should be banned from the internet. (Next on my agenda being that pop-up windows.... )

Porn spam on the rise
By John Leyden

UK corporates are bombarded by porn and pedo bulk-emails - and ineffective anti-spam software and outdated email usage policies mean that many are coping badly

That's the warning from messaging firm Nexor which reckons pornographic emails are on the rise and that many are passing through ineffective defences to reach workers' desktops. It reckons pornographic email is growing at a mininum of 20 per cent per annum, and possibly more, because of under-reporting of the problem.

As well as wasting time dealing with offensive messages, employees who respond to such emails and download illegal content from their workplace could leave both themselves and their employers open to investigation, Nexor warns.

Standard methods for spam control rely on key word searching and referral to real time black hole lists which compile lists of known spammers. Spammers are aware of these methods and are developing ways to beat them, according to Nexor, which says porn spam is notoriously hard to intercept. The company sells technology, called Nexor Interceptor, which identifies the content of emails based upon the natural language concepts contained within them, and not keywords.

Its more sophisticated pattern matching and neural network technology does a better job in blocking spam - particularly unsolicited messages containing pornographic content, Nexor reckons.

A recent article by Associated Press provides evidence that spam controls methods in general and organisations such as Spamhaus.org are making life increasingly difficult for bulk emailers.

AP interviewed a number of notorious bulk emailers for the article, including Bernard Balan, 51, of Ontario, Canada, who told the news agency he has gone through "unbelievable hardships" to keep the spam flowing from his one-stop-financial.com operation.

"My operating costs have gone up 1,000 percent this year, just so I can figure out how to get around all these filters," he told the news agency.

Steve Linford, director of the London-based Spamhaus Project, which tracks the Internet's worst spammers and provides blacklists of their IP addresses, reckons specialist software is only part of the solution.

Ninety per cent of spam emails come from 100-150 known spammers, he says, so organisations configuring their mail server to query the Spamhaus Block List, a real time DNS-based database of IP addresses of verified spammers, can block a huge amount of email from junk senders. Referring to Spamhaus' list allows email to be blocked without having to look at its content - saving processor time, he said.

Nexor and McAfee anti-spam products can block email from open proxies, unlike Spamhaus' free services do not block email from open proxies, so Linford reckons firms which achieved the best results from a combination of the two technologies.

Stream of depravity
Technology differences aside, Linford supports Naxor's view that the flood of pornographic emails is on the rise. Many spam messages now often come with photographs attached or containing Javascript which, if opened, causes browsers to open onto pornographic Web sites, he told us.

Many spammers come from a background in the porn industry, so although they might deny it, Spamhaus reckons more than 50 per cent of the worst spammers are sending out pornographic messages.

Pornographic emails bordering on paedophilia are becoming more commonplace, Linford told us, though these most often come from a different group of individuals operating pedo Web sites.

The disturbing popularity of such Web sites was highlighted last weekend when it emerged that the FBI had trapped more than 7,000 British paedophiles in a sting operation.

UK police have been given the names and addresses of 7,272 individuals who used credit cards to pay for indecent pictures of under age children on Web sites seized by the FBI last year, The Telegraph reports. ®

source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26589.html

 

[Phantasm66]

http://www.spamfaq.net

http://www.spamfaq.net/spam-evils.shtml

3.2.29 What is a "Chickenboner"?

Someone's words once painted an incredibly vivid picture of an archetypical spammer living in a trailer, hunched in semi-darkness over his computer and surrounded by rotting chicken bones in half-eaten KFC buckets and empty beer cans. The image has stuck, and "Chickenboner" is now used to describe any two-bit spammer who wants you to think he's a big shot with his own yacht... but isn't.

Sounds like me on a Friday night! j/k

 

[Rick]

My sister (9 years old at the time) got an e-mail account at hotmail.. The same week she signed up, she recieved two handfuls of SPAM porn.

I'm all for sex education, but that's hardly an approprate way to present such a thing.

Of course, to sign up with hotmail (or surf the Internet for that matter) you are supposed to be 13 years of age, but even so....

She was getting things with titles that I'm actually not at liberty to say on this forum.

I am proud to say I have never, and will never consider patronizing any SPAMmer with my time, money or good will. If I had the ability, I would totally remove SPAM and SPAMmers from existance into the inky blackness of non-dimensional space where they would be tortured eternally by having millions of stacks of letters piled on them each hour.

 

[Phantasm66]

13 is still a minor.

Maybe I might not have found this sort of thing shocking at that age but lots of other kids would have.

No one has the right to rob a child of their innocence.

Have a read at the FAQ I linked to, its got some really interesting stuff.

Something to be aware of: NEVER NEVER NEVER!!! Reply to the Click here to have your address removed from the mailing list part of a SPAM! If you do, the server will have a reaction something like this:

"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSS!!!! A real person and NOT a dummy address! Next time I am cleaning the mailing lists to remove what are suspectedly bogus addresses, this is going RIGHT into the database of ones I know are legit!"

 

[Cucumber]

I have a hotmail account, and i did receive a large quantity of spam emails, not Pornographic in particular, but mainly companies trying to convince me to sign up for a University Diploma, and how i can lower my APR.....like i wanna know that

And i found the only way i could takle this, is to build up a HOOOGE block sender list, which is fast approching the 200 mark:dead:

I say we burn all makers of spam emails, in power stations, to stop use of fossil fuels

 

[Vehementi]

Who wants to join me in my massive DDoS attack on spam sites, one by one?

I agree w/ all of you.

There is also another way, Cuc, there is always another way

 

[DigitAlex]

Hotmail should increase the max length of the block list ...

Mine is full so i can't block more than 255 masks

and why do they add the size of the junk mail folder to the account used size ???

 

[Rick]

Originally posted by Vehementi
Who wants to join me in my massive DDoS attack on spam sites, one by one?

I agree w/ all of you.

There is also another way, Cuc, there is always another way

The way things have been going lately, this may be legal soon. Every man/woman for himself/herself on the Internet!

 

[Arris]

They just don't seem to understand that natural penis enlargement via pills or buying used school girls underwear is of no interest to me. My yahoo, btinternet and hotmail accounts all get spammed with loads of trash. Just came back from two weeks holiday to several hundred spread across my mail accounts

 

[Phantasm66]

Originally posted by Arris
They just don't seem to understand that natural penis enlargement via pills or buying used school girls underwear is of no interest to me. My yahoo, btinternet and hotmail accounts all get spammed with loads of trash. Just came back from two weeks holiday to several hundred spread across my mail accounts

LOL!

Exactly, my man, exactly! Why can't they seem to realise that I am just plain not interested in peeping into the dorm of some 16 year old virgins....



Who the hell voted YES???!?

 

[Cryo]

Yeah I've had a problem with porn spam over the last year or so. On my old undergraduate email account I prided myself on keeping it spam free for 3 and a half years. Then all the sudden half way through my senior year I start getting hammered with all these spam emails. I was recieving about 20 a day, usually 3/4 of which was porn. To this day I don't know how they got the email address, but apparently I wasn't the only one at the university with the same problem. I hear that network operations is thinking about forcing a double server prefix on all the incomming emails to try and slow down the spam since at times it kills the bandwidth. (i.e. from username@university.edu to username@server.server.university.edu)

 

[Snowy Commando]

My Hotmail account is flooded with porn that filters straight to the junk mail folder! :dead:

 

[JAV]

The disturbing popularity of such Web sites was highlighted last weekend when it emerged that the FBI had trapped more than 7,000 British paedophiles in a sting operation.

UK police have been given the names and addresses of 7,272 individuals who used credit cards to pay for indecent pictures of under age children on Web sites seized by the FBI last year, The Telegraph reports. ®

That alone makes it worthwhile to keep it going, IMO! Round the sickies up & let everyone know who they are & where they live! :grinthumb

I don't have this 'spam' problem, but then I don't have a Hotmail account. I do have a firewall (Sygate), AVS (Grisoft) & my ISP (Earthlink) provides excellent filters. I ONLY get emails from ppl that I have previously emailed. All others can PM me.

I saw a news clip on a FBI sting in America concerning this & there are some very important ppl (clergy, Gov, etc) that are having to do a LOT of explaining about why they are on the website lists. :blackeye:

HANG 'EM ALL!

 

[Phantasm66]

Third of spam is porn

Third of spam is porn
By Tim Richardson
Posted: 23/08/2002 at 11:33 GMT

Spam - the scourge of email - is in the news at the mo.

Earlier this week MP Derek Wyatt called on ISPs to be more responsible for XXX spam appearing in people's inboxes.

This came on top of a report from messaging firm, Nexor, that the amount of porn spam is growing by 20 per cent a year.

Now anti-spam outfit, Brightmail, has taken a snapshot of all the spam it intercepted over a 24 hour period from 20-21 August. The findings make interesting reading.

Around 55 per cent of all the spam it came across related to money, including how to reduce debt, get rich quick schemes and gambling giveaways.

The second biggest group was porn - accounting for around 30 per cent of all spam received during the 24 hour period.

Curiously, for the whole of July Brightmail found that only 8 per cent of spam was porn-based. Whether this is just a blip or a sign of the growing amount of porn-related spam remains to be seen.

Moving on, some 10 per cent of spam was health-related, with the rest dealing in all sorts of odds and sods.

Guess that would include all those emails I get asking if I'd like to buy diesel engines, industrial amounts of stainless steel, oh, and most recently, nylon and polyester for "jacket, sport wear and pant" direct from a sweatshop for a snip at 32 cents a yard. ®

source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26805.html

see also:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26771.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26589.html

 

[Arris]

Originally posted by Phantasm66

Who the hell voted YES???!?

Didn't it originally say "Do you think that porn spam mail is on the rise?".
I'm sure it said something like that when I voted yes.

 

[Phantasm66]

no, the question differed from the title of the post. we all know its on the rise.

you wanna retract your vote?

 

[Arris]

Dunno... I am currently eyeing up a pair of those used schoolgirl panties...
Erm... Yes... I would like to retract my vote

 

[Phantasm66]

Originally posted by Arris
Dunno... I am currently eyeing up a pair of those used schoolgirl panties...
Erm... Yes... I would like to retract my vote

I've removed your yes vote, you are now free to vote no if you wish.