Only receiving massive amounts of spam
Help! My email is suddenly only receiving massive amounts of 'mail delivery failure' notices.
I have run SOPHOS scan but nothing comes up. Unfortunately, I probably won't receive a reply.
But if you have a solution, please try to send.
Thanks
Mac Mail, via who? I think you should talk to your provider. Your address could have been hacked and as Wzzz suggests you should check the strength of your password.
But your provider should be able to confirm if there is any suspicious activity or if it is just a case of the settings.
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[spam] due to a massive amount of spam...
...or at least spammer registration I am now implementing blanket bans by email address.
If this affects you and you feel that's unfair either a) get an email address with a legitimate ISP that actually acts against spammers or b) PM with an excellent case for why you can't do that and I'll give you gmail invite...dtw wrote:As far as I know bots can't yet defeat image verification registration, which makes these guys human. Email verification is our second line of defence but if people are using a spammer friendly ISP we're thwarted again. This is our new defence.
Sorry, aint the case, captcha, which is what image verification is known as, has been beaten in a wide range of cases, with quite a bit of success.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha#Defeating_CAPTCHAs
There's other schemes apart from OCR to defeat them, I've heard of some setups, taking captchas and reposting them on another site pretending to offer some other service. Then users signing up for the 'other service' give a correct captcha response, to which the bot can then use.
Captcha's are defeated to an extent, but they're better than nothing at all.
James -
Hello
Previously I used Exchange 2010 with Forefront Threat Protection installed and this used to do a good job of stopping all the spam.
However since updating to Exchange 2013 earlier this year and enabling the integrated spam filtering everyone noticed a sudden increase in the amount of spam which was getting through which has been bad for a long time.
We have been living with it but in the last 3 weeks everyone has started getting about 40 emails a day from Pfizer for Viagra. All these seem to defeat the content filtering as Viagra is spelt with an extra I and the email address is always different.
Also images in emails are blocked by default but somehow all the images on these spam messages appear for everyone.
I am not sure the spam filtering is working at all and I'm not sure how to tell as ForeFront gives you a nice graphical dashboard but I can find nothing similar to this in Exchange and PowerShell seems the only way to configure the limited functionality
of the content filter.
Is there any way to get rid of these messages as it doesn't look very good when they are constantly popping up for everyone?
Thanks
Robin
Robin WilsonHello ManU
Thanks for the reply.
I have checked the logs and see this quite often:
AcceptMessage,,SCL,not available: policy is disabled
But other times it says this:
RejectMessage,550 5.7.1 Message rejected as spam by Content Filtering
Which seems to indicate it is rejecting some.
This is what one of the email headers look like:
Received: from RWS-MAIL.rwsservices.net (192.168.2.151) by
RWS-MAIL.rwsservices.net (192.168.2.151) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id
15.0.775.38 via Mailbox Transport; Sat, 28 Dec 2013 10:59:26 +0000
Received: from RWS-MAIL.rwsservices.net (192.168.2.151) by
rws-mail.rwsservices.net (192.168.2.151) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id
15.0.775.38; Sat, 28 Dec 2013 10:58:38 +0000
Received: from [90.169.106.204] (90.169.106.204) by mail.rwsservices.net
(192.168.2.151) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 15.0.775.38 via Frontend
Transport; Sat, 28 Dec 2013 10:58:37 +0000
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 12:05:58 +0200
From: US.Pfizer eStore <[email protected]>
To: robin.wilson <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Subject: Dear robin.wilson up to 65% OFF!
X-Mailer: Airmail (223)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="dd2ee3ea_586bb9e4_6f04"
Return-Path: [email protected]
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-PRD: 001-taxis.co.uk
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-SenderIdResult: Neutral
Received-SPF: Neutral (rws-mail.rwsservices.net: 90.169.106.204 is neither
permitted nor denied by domain of [email protected])
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-Network-Message-Id: e8825204-1f32-48be-a331-08d0d1d30209
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-SCL: 1
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-PCL: 2
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-Antispam-Report: DV:3.3.13223.464;SID:SenderIDStatus Neutral;OrigIP:90.169.106.204
X-EXCLAIMER-MD-CONFIG: 079171ba-394f-46d5-a160-56e416712e8e
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AVStamp-Enterprise: 1.0
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthSource: rws-mail.rwsservices.net
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthAs: Anonymous
The emails use a different sender email address every time and there is always a poem in very light grey writing in the body of the email. The drugs are always misspelt as well. Is this why these are getting through?
Thanks
Robin
Robin Wilson -
Automatic carryforward only allowed for amount 0
On 4.7, we are attempting to process a payment for on a FY2007 Purchase order using MIRO. We are now in our FY2009 year but we are receiving the error message FMCF101 - Automatic carryforward is only allowed for amount 0. What could be the cause of this?
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Trying to reduce the GR without having carried forward the GR is not valid and you will get the error "Automatic carryforward is only allowed for amount 0".
The only possibilities to avoid this error are:
1. Carry forward the GR from the previous fiscal year to the one being modified.
2. In OFUP do not use the invoice to determine the carry forward level.
3. Do not update both the GR and IR but only the IR
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Alternatives to Verizon e-mail do to amount of spam
I have been informed by Verizon that there are no other steps available that can be taken to reduce the amount of spam that I have not already done. I am disappointed as I work as an e-mail administrator and we use tools that make spam a rare event. So the next thing for me is to determine what the alternatives are. I figure I could switch to another internet provider or start using a free Yahoo! or Google e-mail while keeping Verizon. What have other people done who have been overloaded with spam?
I believe TNS_2 meant "Yahoo and Google have a deal..."
In any case, a standard Google account can be setup to pull email from Verizon and spam filter it. You'll have to receive your email from Google using either their web interface or an email client configured to access Google email servers, but you can configure GMail and/or your client to send mail through Verizon.
In short, you can use Google as spam filter. It works great.
Good luck.
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Verizon spam filter not working---how can I stop the massive influx of SPAM?
For more than 5 months I have tolerated the massive influx of Spam from my emial account. I check my spam filter settings, my outlook junk mail settings, and even resorted to deleting spam one by one. There has to be some solution to stopping this push of junk mail from the server to my inbox.
Any ideas and suggestions?SPAM Detector tool - for incoming email only
What does SPAM DETECTOR tool do?
Your ability to communicate with family or friends can be hindered by unsolicited email or "spam". If you have your SPAM Detector ON, it will sift and catch unsolicited emails sent to your email account and either present them in the SPAM Detector folder or delete them. (Note: You can adjust your SPAM Detector settings in the Settings/Email Settings tab within Message Center.)
Furthermore, if there are emails you deem as SPAM, you can “Mark as SPAM” by selecting the email from your email inbox list view and select SPAM icon from top menu bar. It will put the email in your SPAM Detector folder and send an email to the VZ Abuse team and third party vendor to evaluate. If it is deemed SPAM, SPAM Detector definitions/rules will be updated.
Please note that marking email as SPAM does not add the email to the Blocked Senders list. Furthermore, SPAMMERs rarely use the same email address more than once to send SPAM.
With that said, You should start doing the following:
You- should start reporting the spam with a spam button in the webmail client
For-ward spam emails that were not caught to [email protected]
Set your e-mail filter. An e-mail filter and spam blocking software are absolutely critical. Set these security measures to update automatically to ensure that you are protected from the latest threats.
NEVER reply to spam. Replying to spam, even to "unsubscribe," could set you up for more spam.
Protect your e-mail address and instant message ID. If you must post this information online, set up two identities, one for real use and one for online activities.
Be wary of e-mail attachments. Change the settings on your e-mail program so that images and attachments are not opened automatically. Only open attachments from users known to you.
Watch out for phishing scams. Don't click on links in e-mails or instant messages unless the sender is known to you. Instead, open a separate web browser and visit the site directly.
Create smart and strong passwords. Use a combination of letters, numbers, and symbols.
Never enter your personal information in a pop-up window. You may not be able to tell when a scammer has hijacked a seemingly legitimate site.
Don't fill out online surveys, or register for contests or fan clubs. These may be fronts for spammers trying to collect your e-mail address -
How to limit incoming email to only come from a cloud spam provider
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I am getting a lot of junk email that is bypassing spam blocking provider. I want to setup up on server, a rule to only receive mail on port 25 to come from a specific ip address. Older OS would let you set up easily.Hi Iwan,
To restrict the number of calls to the application you need to configure only the appropriate number (10 in your example) of dial-peers to point to the AA Pilot number. Have a look;
Set Up Incoming Dial Peers for AA Pilot Numbers
In this task, you associate dial peers for incoming calls with the AA service that you want them to use.
Cisco Unified CME B-ACD is available for outside calls through voice ports and trunks, for which dial peers must be set up. When you set up a dial peer, you use the service command to associate it with the name of the Cisco Unified CME B-ACD AA service that you want callers to that dial peer to reach.
Note You must configure a dial peer for each incoming DID voice port.
To determine how many ports or trunks you must have for your Cisco Unified CME B-ACD service, consider the following:
Total number of phones across all ephone hunt groups
Total number of slots in the queues across all queues
Total number of PSTN ports feeding into the queues
The number of simultaneous calls that Cisco Unified CME B-ACD can handle is limited by the number of PSTN ports, but these ports may not always be in use. For example, you could have three queues with ten slots per queue, but configure only 10 ports instead of 30 because you do not expect the three queues to ever be full at one time.
From this good doc;
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/voicesw/ps4625/products_configuration_guide_chapter09186a00805f2305.html#wp1003323
Hope this helps!
Rob -
Hi I purchased some bingo bash chips on1/6/2013 it was 100 chips for $7.99 I see was was charged for the chips , I went to play the game tonight I only received 11 chips.
I can completely understand your frustration...and I wish you the best of luck. But as a Finance Manager, trust me, a person with great credit taking a ding on their report for an amount of such will have a heck of an impact...more than you probably are aware of. Will it stop you from having credit extended to you...probably not...but it will have a significant impact on your score and 99% of all lending institutions don't rely on human eyes to view a credit report...it's all automated. A credit score is assigned and an interest rate it reflects such. Very little a human can do to get it altered...trust me, I know.
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