Endurance International

Sep 17, 2008 2 Replies

I've noticed that a lot, if not all, of the Nigerian scams reach my email via Endurance International and while I've sent headers and messages to them regarding their irresponsibility in curtailing that kind of activity, I've received no responses and the s*it just keeps coming through.


--- Here's why, maybe:



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Notice that none of these people are concerned with ethics and that all they want to do is position themselves to where they can enable, and charge, skalliwag subscribers to post their snake oil and make some money off of their posts.



Or, maybe I'm wrong, but the whole thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth.



What say you all? JF


If you are so sure that they are rogue why are you accepting anything relayed from their servers?

I have added various dodgy open relay servers in Korea and Taiwan to my reject list. Although these days my ISP does a good job of blocking spam at their external boundary using Cloudmark. Treacle traps are fun to watch.

Analyse the headers and find a rule to block them whilst still letting genuine email through.

I can't recall when a Nigerian scam email last arrived here. You haven't actually fallen for one and ended up on a mugs list have you?

Regards, Martin Brown

No, and rather than sticking my head in the sand with a filter, I usually forward their post and headers to the FBI. JF

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