Re: Phishing e-mails
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:57 pm
Unfortunately spam is one today's frustrating side-effects of open access ont he internet. Luckily, my ISP seems pretty efficient at sorting them out. Only a very few now get through, maybe 1 or 2 a week, whist my spam mailboxes get between 300 and 500 a day!
A lot of that is down to someone somehow cloning one of my emal addresses, and using it as the from address in spam itself. After 2 months of up to 3000 messages a day - all emails from my address that were rejected as addressee not found or rejected by spam filters - they suddenly stopped. And since then BT has been doing a stirling job of not transferring them into my inbox.
I suppose the easiest thing in a way would be to transfer to a different provider, or to cancel with BT and resign with a new address. But I have just added some new email addresses, one for forum use, one for purchases, one for financial stuff, and one for family and friends. I then just use my PC client (I use Outlook) to collect mail form all of these mail addresses inboxes.
If any get compromised, then I can simply delete it and add another. So far the two that seem to get a fair amount are the addresses I use for forums and for purchases. No real surprise there.
I work on the principle that I might miss an email because it is incorrectly filtered as spam into the spam box of the ISP mail system. But that this is OK, as if someone really wants to communicate with me then they won't just rely upon email. And that goes for financial stuff in spades.
Tedious, isn't it. But better, in my view, than having a lot of restrictions.
A lot of that is down to someone somehow cloning one of my emal addresses, and using it as the from address in spam itself. After 2 months of up to 3000 messages a day - all emails from my address that were rejected as addressee not found or rejected by spam filters - they suddenly stopped. And since then BT has been doing a stirling job of not transferring them into my inbox.
I suppose the easiest thing in a way would be to transfer to a different provider, or to cancel with BT and resign with a new address. But I have just added some new email addresses, one for forum use, one for purchases, one for financial stuff, and one for family and friends. I then just use my PC client (I use Outlook) to collect mail form all of these mail addresses inboxes.
If any get compromised, then I can simply delete it and add another. So far the two that seem to get a fair amount are the addresses I use for forums and for purchases. No real surprise there.
I work on the principle that I might miss an email because it is incorrectly filtered as spam into the spam box of the ISP mail system. But that this is OK, as if someone really wants to communicate with me then they won't just rely upon email. And that goes for financial stuff in spades.
Tedious, isn't it. But better, in my view, than having a lot of restrictions.