Spam attack
Holy crap. Anyone else with a .Mac account noticing an unusual amount of spam lately? I've gotten probably a hundred or two in the past three days.
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Holy crap. Anyone else with a .Mac account noticing an unusual amount of spam lately? I've gotten probably a hundred or two in the past three days.
Comments
Nothing out of the ordinary here.
Posted by: Dan Dickinson | April 3, 2004 12:30 AM
Not a lot for me either, but Glenda got maybe 70 yesterday.
Posted by: suellen | April 3, 2004 11:13 AM
I normally don't get many spam messages using my dot mac account -- maybe 3 a day. Yesterday, I got 45.
Seems if Apple has a spam filter, it was down.
Posted by: Mike | April 3, 2004 11:34 AM
Plenty here. 208 in the last two days, I've not seen a surge like this since Thanksgiving day. The biggest surge, especially in those that get past my junk filter, are home finance loan offers that feature not only my real name, but my exact street address. I made up a rule to trash many of those, based on domain name, but it doesn't get all of them.
Posted by: Alphax | April 3, 2004 12:08 PM
A ton for me- although Suellen hasn't had much at all. Weird.
Posted by: Glenda | April 3, 2004 12:56 PM
They LIKE us, Glenda, the spammers really really LIKE us.
Posted by: flargh | April 3, 2004 01:18 PM
I am jealous of your guys. It seems that the world has lost interest in the size of my bleep and my hair loss. Damn.
Posted by: fccovett | April 3, 2004 06:05 PM
Jealous of YOU, guys. I'll make sure to use the preview feature from now on.
Posted by: fccovett | April 3, 2004 06:07 PM
I don't have a .Mac account, but my blog has been hit by spammers leaving comments, and my Apple Mail client has trapped hundreds of Junk messages over the last several days.
It's scarey to think that the same people who are stupid enough to open, read and (heaven porfend) buy from spammers also have the right to vote.
Posted by: Capecoder | April 3, 2004 09:24 PM
My .mac account got spammed like a clearance sale at K-Mart on Friday. I didn't keep track but easily over a hundred during the day.
Posted by: a2daj | April 4, 2004 04:04 PM
Hm, no spam has come through on my .mac account, but my IMG email account gets over 100 a day. THAT sucks. Thank goodness for spamfire.
Posted by: Jean-Luc Dinsdale | April 7, 2004 01:24 PM
I was away for this past week, and it was quite a surprise to see all those chocolate colored emails when I got back. Far more than usual. That being said, I don't usually get too many, so having 150 emails waiting probably doesn't seem like much to many of you. For me, it's about 10x the junk I usually get.
Posted by: Suz | April 10, 2004 08:02 AM