Email Spam

I unthinkingly clicked on a link in an email that was sent to me by a friend. The link brought me to some site for "cash-flow" something or another. Apparently, now I am sending out the same spam emails my friend continuously sends to me. Here are my questions.
I haven't been able to pin down which of email accounts is sending the spam, as everyone that tells me about it neglects to identify the email address before deleting it, I can't see any sent messages in any of my email accounts that I didn't send, nor have any of these spam emails been sent from me to one of my other email accounts. Logic would have it, that since I clicked on that link with my yahoo account, and since the spam emails started occurring around the same time, it's my yahoo account doing the spamming.
Now, I know everyone says how invulnerable Macs are to viruses. Is it possible that whatever it is I clicked on downloaded something onto my computer without my knowledge and is using my Mail and Entourage Contact Lists to forward Spam? If my yahoo account is POP3, would that make any difference? Or is this a problem for Yahoo, something on their server that is attached to my contacts in my account on their server, and has nothing to do with my computer being compromised?

what exactly does Koobface +aka Boonana+ do?
Many potential things. According to Intego:
Potentially, if it installs correctly, it functions the same as the Koobface worm running on Windows. It runs a local web server and an IRC server, acts as part of a botnet, acts as a DNS changer, and can activate a number of other functions, either through files initially installed or other files downloaded subsequently
See:
http://www.intego.com/news/trojan-horse-os-x-koobface-a-affects-mac-os-x.asp
Secondly, does quarantine work with Firefox?
Yes

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I have been receiveing excessive spam email today that is not being filtered out by the verizon email spam filter. Has anyone else noticed this? The spam filter was previously working.
Ed

I have also seen a lot more SPAM the last few days than I am used to. I suspect the issue is tied to an intermittent failure of one or more of Verizon SMTP and POP servers. Both problems appeared at the same time. There is another thread on this board about Verizon email being broken.
I would hesitate to use the word broken, let's just say unreliable. The POP/SMTP servers seem to go up and down like a yo-yo, and talking to Verizon Customer Service is like talking to a brick wall. The only thing they can do is play with your computer. The possibility that it is actually a Verizon problem is beyond their comprehension.
If the www.verizon.net says it is unavailable, and my email client says it is getting a status of ' service temporarily unavailable', I seriously doubt that changing anything on my computer will have any effect, since www.verizon.net is interacting directly with the pop servers without my computer being involved in the conversation.
anyway I suspect that when they get the server issues fixed, the SPAM filter will also begin working reliably again.

Email spam filter

I am using Intuit's GoPayment to process my credit card payments from customers. GoPayment allows me to email a receipt to my customer but many do not have email addresses so I purchased the HP3522 ePrinter so that I could email the receipt directly to the printer's email address enabling me to provide them with a printed receipt. The email spam filter is rejecting these emails. Intuit creates the email and sends it with my gmail account listed as sender. (I have the settings on the printer set to accept ANY addresses). Anyone else have this issue?
I am able to send the receipt to myself and then send that email to the printer but that seems rather counter-productive and time-consuming. Is there a way to get these receipts to print on this printer without this added step??
I paid for the printer, the paper, and the ink cartridges - shouldn't it be MY decision if spam emails are using it up??? Please, let ME decide what is spam!!!

Hi CARParts. The spam filter for email prints cannot be overridden. If the subject line is blank, that could be a reason it is being blocked, but I imagine it has something typed in. If you wish to print these receipts a workaround to consider would be to have them sent to your email directly and then save/convert them to a PDF file, and then send to the printer.
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Unhappy with OS X Server handling of email spam

I'm unhappy with the way that OS X Server (on Mountain Lion) handles email spam.
What I *want* is to be able to set some SpamAssassin rules, and then to have the mail server refuse spam emails (not accept and put into Junk, but refuse to accept them in the first place). I used to do this with Exim and the sa-exim tool. In 10.7 I decided to switch to the built-in mail server, but that doesn't offer this functionality.
I would settle with being able to set some SpamAssassin rules and then have the server filter junk email into my Junk folder. 10.7 Server used to do this; I had to enable webmail and turn on the setting in there, and it would configure Pigeonhole (a Dovecot plugin) to put spam into the Junk folder. 10.8 server no longer offers webmail and no longer comes with Pigeonhole. I can add it myself with MacPorts, but I don't understand how to configure it on OS X Server.
So I have to settle for my OS X Server delivering all junk emails to my inbox, where then I have to delete them one-by-one on my iPhone. I could leave a Mac on at home all day to do the spam filtering, but that just seems silly.
If anyone could tell me how to set up Pigeonhole on OS X Server (10.8) to put my spam into a folder - or even how to set up Postfix to refuse spam in the first place - I would be very, very happy.

The issue you've run into is that postfix uses amavisd as its post queue (I.e. received and accepted by smtp) filter.
If you don't want to set server-side rules ( easiest way is still webmail / Managesieve plugin) to auto move junk mail into a junk folder because of security concerns, then there are other options.
Most of the logic for spam checking is done by amavis. It calls as subprocessess spamassassin and clam av.
Changes you make in spamassassin conf are used by spamassassin but amavisd may overrule spamassassin.
So your options are:
1. Make webmail a local intranet access only - I.e. use a custom port 8xxx and don't open that to the Internet via your router or firewall rules.
2. Quarantine spam to a new mailbox so it doesn't get delivered to the user.
I haven't done this but, if you have a look at http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/IntegratedInPostfixWithAmavis ,
It has some instructions on how to adjust the amavisd conf ( path to server/mail/config/amavisd/amavisd.conf ) , set up a new mailbox and quarantine the spam to there. This saves you having to set up webmail /Managesieve plugin, and means that you don't lose any mail incorrectly classified, although you will need to clean it out from time to time.
If you have a lot of users, number 1. Is a better fit for an administrator because the user can manage their own spam.
At the moment I'm grappling with how to get the child-process spamassassin to look up user-managed auto white lists and prefs set through webmail sauserprefs plugin. Still a work in progress.......
Hope that helps.

Iphone Email Spam!!!

Iphone Email Spam... How do I filter the spam? My yahoo account filters the spam, but the Iphone does not!!

How you are accessing your Yahoo account on your computer is called webmail access using a browser with IE which also indicates Yahoo is doing the SPAM filtering at the incoming mail server for your account which should be the same when accessing the account with the iPhone's email client.
The iPhone's email client which is similar to using Outlook Express or Outlook on your computer if you used either one but is on a more limited scale does not include a SPAM filter. You may want to contact Yahoo technical support regarding why the SPAM filtering they are doing at the incoming mail server when accessing the account via webmail when using IE is not applied when the iPhone's email client checks the account for new messages before messages are downloaded from the incoming mail server.

Junk email/spam iphone5

How can I filter junk email / spam from coming into my inbox on my iPhone5?

You will have to do that through your mail service provider. The iPhone does not provide any additional features to filter email.

Were COMODO cerfiticate collection emails SPAMmed?

I tried a few times to use COMODO S/MIME E-Mail certificate on my iCloud mail.
But still now, I have not received any emails which titled as "Your certificate is ready for collection!" and should be from "Certificate Customer Services <[email protected]>".
Were those emails SPAMmed?
The try before the last was about 3 weeks or even earlier before. No email arrived.
Then I revoked that certificate and tried again today at around 3:00PM. No email arrived.

Well, it fixed by myself.
I created a new rule on icloud.com: While mails from '[email protected]' arrived, 'MOVE TO FOLDER' Archive automatically.
As a result, the mail arrived, althrough that was still in Inbox.

How can I protect against email spam robots in muse?

how can I protect against email spam robots in muse?

Put recaptcha or becaptcha on all of your contact forms and set up cloudflare on the site.

Email SPAM filter doesn't work

Is the webmail SPAM filter supposed to ... like ... prevent SPAM? I get the same SPAM every day. The SPAM button does nothing,

I have been marking about 30 per day as spam and forwarding all of them to the address that Verizon says is for undetected spam. The spam I get is all from the same outfit, I believe, based on the uniformity of how they package their notes and the fact that all of the links are spoofed. One would think that after 30 a day for several months, somebody in Verizon would wake up to the fact that Verizon users are getting killed with spam. One would think that if they truly cared about our email experience they would have an army of folks jumping on the spam we forward to them, aggressively pursuing it and working to reduce it. The fact is that they show no evidence of putting forth ANY effort at making our experience better.
The fact seems to be that they have little concern for their email users. The more of us that stick with Verizon for our home internet service, paying them their monthly fee, but jump to other, better email providers merely means less work for them. Not a bad model for making maximum profit, but a sucky way to treat customers.
My Verizon Wireless service has been fantastic. But my Verizon phone/internet service sucks. I'm just waiting until another provider is available in my area so I can leave Verizon forever. Lousy support, uncaring employees. I send in notes to them and get zero response. Look at the complaints in these forums that continue to rack up. Almost no response from the company. We're all left to try to deal with our problems ourselves with only minimal support. Probably some intern that spends his/her shift playing Angry Birds.

Increase in email spam lately

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Ok I altered the values to 80 and 40 respectivly, and also slightly altered the SBRS score ranges for blacklist, throttled and allowed. Our CIO still got another piece of spam. I had him install the Ironport outlook plugin and report it as spam.
How can we stop this from getting in?
Envelope and Header Summary
Received Time:
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
MID:
8565070
Message Size:
1.39 (KB)
Subject:
Hey, Need_to_Finance _a_New_Car? (AllCreditOK)
Envelope Sender:
[email protected]
Envelope Recipients:
-undisclosed recipients
Message ID Header:
<[email protected]newcarsfound.net>
SMTP Auth User ID:
N/A
Attachments:
N/A
Sending Host Summary
Reverse DNS Hostname:
point70.breadhosting.net (verified)
IP Address:
209.95.37.187
SBRS Score:
None
Processing Details
MAIL POLICY "DEFAULT" MATCHED THESE RECIPIENTS: undisclosed recipient
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Protocol SMTP interface Management (IP 192.168.1.200) on incoming connection (ICID 13310837) from sender IP 209.95.37.187. Reverse DNS host point70.breadhosting.net verified yes.
04 Sep 2014 11:57:31 (GMT -04:00)
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Delivery connection (DCID 4387118) successfully accepted TLS protocol TLSv1 cipher RC4-SHA .
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Start message 8565070 on incoming connection (ICID 13310837).
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 enqueued on incoming connection (ICID 13310837) from [email protected].
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 on incoming connection (ICID 13310837) added recipient (undisclosed recipient).
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04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 SPF: mailfrom identity [email protected] Pass
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 does not contain DKIM signature.
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 contains message ID header '<[email protected]newcarsfound.net>'.
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 original subject on injection: Hey, Need_to_Finance _a_New_Car? (AllCreditOK)
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 (1425 bytes) from [email protected] ready.
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 matched per-recipient policy DEFAULT for inbound mail policies.
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 scanned by Anti-Spam engine: CASE. Interim verdict: Negative
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 scanned by Anti-Spam engine: CASE. Final verdict: Negative
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 scanned by Anti-Virus engine Sophos. Interim verdict: CLEAN
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Message 8565070 scanned by Anti-Virus engine. Final verdict: Negative
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Message 8565070 scanned by Outbreak Filters. Verdict: Negative
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
Message 8565070 queued for delivery.
04 Sep 2014 11:57:32 (GMT -04:00)
(DCID 4387118) Delivery started for message 8565070 to undisclosed recipient.
04 Sep 2014 11:57:33 (GMT -04:00)
(DCID 4387118) Delivery details: Message 8565070 sent to undisclosed recipient
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Message 8565070 to undisclosed recipient received remote SMTP response '2.6.0 <[email protected]newcarsfound.net> Queued mail for delivery'.

Email spam question

I get alot of spam and windows mail stops it pretty well.. my question is when i setup my iphone to recieve email all the mail comes spam and all.. anyway around this...

so i have to get ahold of my isp?.. maybe i will try routing it thru google.. seemed to work on my htc magic

Can your contacts be hacked and sent as email spam

I have received confirmation of spam email sent from my contact list on my pc, my mail address is hosted by AOL is there any software to check if i have in spambots hidden in my system or is it within AOL servers.

It was your use of the term PC that led me to believe you were using a Windows computer. While Macs are technically personal computers, PC is more generally thought of as a Windows computer while Apple computers are Macs.
My confusion aside, it is still extremely unlikely your Mac is infected with some form of malware. The odds are it is a PC belonging to someone you correspond with that is infected. They are in all likelihood not using your AOL account, instead setting up an SMTP server on the infected PC and spoofing to appear as if the traffic were coming through AOL. So changing your AOL password wouldn't hurt anything, it is unlikely to help.
There is one possibility where your Mac is involved and that would be if someone else has physical access to your Mac. In that case all bets are off. If someone with ill intentions has physical access to your Mac and a modicum of knowledge, they own you and your computer. Your best protection in that case is to encrypt your entire HD using Filevault (System Preferences > Security & Privace > Filevault.)
WARNING: If you use Filevault and forget your password you are toast.

Email spam filters - rules, help

I have been getting hammered with spam to my .me / .icloud email address. I know this is an Apple mail problem as the email is also going to the .icloud account I have set up for my 9 year old daughter. The problem is I have setup rules to ignore these emails using the from domain (.tk) but the emails still make it to our inbox. All of them have attachments in them and I am scared my daughter will open one these attachments even though I have told her not to open any of the emails.
What I have setup as the rule is as follows:
1. if all > from > contains > .tk
2. move message > to mailbox = junk
Is there any other rule I need to setup to get these messages to skip both our inboxes. These are what these spam emails look like:
I have been forwarding all these to spam@me but that doesn't seem to be doing much help.
Thanks,
Christoper

There could be several reasons why they are still in the inbox. Make sure junk filtering is enabled in Mail's preferences and that you have it set to move junk messages to the junk mailbox and not to leave them in the inbox.
Rules only apply to new incoming messages. If they are being read on another device first, the rule filtering will not be applied to those messages on the computer.
The order of the rules in the rules list is very important. Make sure you have no other rules ahead of it that will cause this particular one not to be applied.
You can test a rule manually by highlighting a message and right click on the message in the list. Choose apply rule. If the rule is good, it should perform the action you have set up.
I assume both you and your daughter have seperate devices and seperate accounts and you can't get it to work on either. I have also been getting these spam messages to one of my iCloud aliases.

Can't stop the email spam

Anyone know how to stop junk email from coming into Apple mail? On my Windows computer, spam doesn't come through on Outlook. Verizon email settings show spam detector is on and emails are deleted. But that doesn't solve the problem on my iPad and iPhone, I can't stop the constant stream of spam email. Any ideas?

The Yahoo mail app remembers spam when it comes up again if you mark it with the Yahoo Mail app.
If you use Gmail or Yahoo mail app, they each have an icon to label emails as spam. Yahoo uses a shield icon.
if you use the stock app, tap the file folder and send to junk. In settings app, under mail, make sure it is set to "send spam to JUNK"

Verizon Email Spam Checker

How do I stop Verizon from declaring email I get from one or two individuals as SPAM? I am part of a small group mailing. If she sends it from her COMCAST account it ends up in my spam box on Webmail. If she sends it from GMAIL, I get it...Problem is I dont always use webmail so I may not see it until its way past due.
Does Verizon have issues with COMCAST????
I get other group messages OK, Just from her...I never entered her in a spam filter...Thanks.

I don't know how you would get Verizon to stop treating it as SPAM.
You said you have never tried a SPAM filter; why not? It should work to look for mail coming from a specific email address, and if it is then move it to the inbox, thus when your email client checks the inbox it will find the email.
I was having trouble with the Verizon SPAM filter with email from several organizations that I wanted to see; I set up the filters and they seem to work just fine. If you want to try it, assuming you are using the Rich webmail application, go to My Settings ==> Mail ==> Filters ==> Add New Filter and see if that will work. You will need to know the specific Comcast email address she uses.
Another alternative would be to try adding her email address or domain to the Safe List. I have never used this but it should also work I think, and would be slightly easier to set up.
Can't hurt to try one of the options, might fix your problem with very little effort.
Justin
Verizon FiOS TV, Internet, and phone
QIP6416-P1, IMG 1.7.1, Build 09.97
Keller, TX 76248

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