Category: Spam wars

  • Dear archant.co.uk, please stop spamming me

    Dear lifestyleadvertising@archant.co.uk life-style@archant.co.uk (22nd February 2012) “Bolton, Jamie” (11th March 2012) “Blick, Sharon” (8th May 2012) and again “Blick, Sharon” with “Harwood, Jason” (30th May 2012) I know your company. We have advertised in your publications in the past. However, when you scrape web sites for contact information to send spam [1] (which also breaks…

  • Spam filter that blocks the spam senders from RECEIVING email!

    Interesting, I just tried to report spam to a company who I assume ran the campaign in good faith. The report got an unexpected response: : host lonvs07.kinexus.net[212.113.24.167] said: 554 Service unavailable; Client host [89.234.3.158] blocked using relays.ordb.org; ordb.org was shut down on December 18, 2006. Please remove from your mailserver. (in reply to RCPT…

  • Spam Wars – The spammer lost in court, but will they pay?

    It’s arrived, the County Court Judgement against the spammers known as Cybernet Media Limited and Chris Mortimer. The court awarded me 100 in compensation and a further 325 in costs (425 in total). The big question now is will they pay? They have until the 28th February. I admit this still isn’t really what I…