Maurice Weitman on sat 23 dec 06
Wayne wrote:
>Reporting these morons is the only defense we have against (sic)
>stopping them.
Actually, short of legislation which will force emails to be
authenticated OR to charge a penny per, there is nothing we can do to
stop them from sending these scams. NOTHING.
For one thing, these addresses are easily spoofed, and the addresses
can be abandoned once used.
And I'll bet anyone lunch that 99% of these originate from Russia,
Nigeria, or some other law-free, renegade email top-level-domain or
countries (.ng, .ru, .ro, .ae, .cn, etc.)
Reporting them to spoof@paypal or abuse@bankofamerica, et al, will
only guarantee receipt of yet another useless piece of email from
them telling you how to protect yourself.
The ONLY thing we can do to protect ourselves from these things is to
NEVER follow a link to anything that requires you to login and/or
provide identifying information. So, if Bank of America sends you
something AND you have an account there (DUH!), go to their page
directly in your web browser and login as usual.
Of course, paying close attention to the URL (web address http...
something) is always a good practice, and I would say it's a
necessity; it's a jungle out there.
Wayne's advice to use different email addresses for different
purposes is sound. I have one address for eBay, another for PayPal,
a third for Schwab, etc. And I have those addresses "whitelisted" in
my spam filters so that they're never marked as junk. Anything
claiming to be from eBay, PayPal, etc. that does get flagged as junk,
therefore, IS junk and I never see it.
And, to say again, any email address used to post messages on clayart
is guaranteed to be harvested by spammers/spoofers and be used within
weeks of first appearance to send you all sorts of scams. So it may
behoove you to use a more disposable email address for your clayart
posts. Which is why I'll be using momud5 pretty soon. My permanent
(well, more durable) email address will always be "mud" at the same
domain.
Celia and I will be driving down to Tucson for a week or so to visit
with our cousins and escape from the distractions around here, so...
I hope you all have a great holiday and healthy, happy '07.
Best,
Maurice
Marek & Pauline Drzazga-Donaldson on sun 24 dec 06
most scams and emails can easily be stopped. Governments do not want to =
- irrespective of country of origin. Too much money is made on =
programmes and etc., legislation would be simple. Just follow the money =
trail and there lies the reason.
Don't forget that the internet is an evil thing ansd will swallow you =
up, also don't forget the M2K bug that did not exist - who made the =
money?=20
Of course we can stop spam, it just requires a ground swell, but for =
that to happen we have to get off our fat arses - so it will not happen. =
Inertia rules KO.
happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year, b ut most of all Happy =
Potting Marek
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an irreverent point of view after 35 years in the game Marek =
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