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Phone spammers galore
15 Apr 08 10:24 am Filed in: Rants
You remember a while back I had a bit of a rant
about one telemarketing company that kept on
calling our landline even though all of our
numbers are on the Do Not Call register? Well seems
like the register is causing more of these
cockbite spammers to get starving enough to try
to get around the restrictions.
We're now getting about one call every couple of days, always with a Sydney caller ID but different company-like premium numbers ie. ones that end in 00 or 11. They hang up as soon as you or the answering machine picks up. I'm guessing the idea is that if you call them back you're somehow giving them tacit consent to call you. It's pissing me off. Not hugely but just enough to (once again) wish that s[p|c]ammers and telemarketroids (is there really much of a difference?) be the first up against the wall and shot in a revolution. In the knees.
Seems I'm not the only one. There's a really handy site that helps you gain more info about these bottomfeeders: whocallsme. Turns out every single 02 number we've had of late has been on this database. Ah well, it keeps the answering machine amused...
We're now getting about one call every couple of days, always with a Sydney caller ID but different company-like premium numbers ie. ones that end in 00 or 11. They hang up as soon as you or the answering machine picks up. I'm guessing the idea is that if you call them back you're somehow giving them tacit consent to call you. It's pissing me off. Not hugely but just enough to (once again) wish that s[p|c]ammers and telemarketroids (is there really much of a difference?) be the first up against the wall and shot in a revolution. In the knees.
Seems I'm not the only one. There's a really handy site that helps you gain more info about these bottomfeeders: whocallsme. Turns out every single 02 number we've had of late has been on this database. Ah well, it keeps the answering machine amused...
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Die spammers, die!
19 Dec 07 07:55 am Filed in: Just sayin' is
all
Up until now, I've been able to have wildcard
addressing active on my domain (ie. anything you like
before the @) which is handy because you can tag
companies so that you know if they sell the address,
e.g. microsoftsoldthisaddressthebastards [at]
mydomain. Anyways, thanks to email gateway admins
like yours truly (for better or worse) starting to
rely on sender address verification,
spammers are resorting to finding such domains
and joe-jobbing them with random
sender addresses. Repeatedly. Close on 1000
backscatter emails in the last
two days alone. It's ironic in an Alanis Morissette kinda way.
Sigh.
So it looks like I'll need to think about shutting down wildcard addressing and resort to just a handful of addresses. If that happens and you can't figure out my address (hint, it uses my first name before the @ sign) I'll probably put a contact form somewhere here.
Sigh.
So it looks like I'll need to think about shutting down wildcard addressing and resort to just a handful of addresses. If that happens and you can't figure out my address (hint, it uses my first name before the @ sign) I'll probably put a contact form somewhere here.
Spammers, there is a special circle of hell
waiting just for you.