Anyone else getting empty spam?

petemc · 29-10-2007, 15:37

Its really annoying me. Totally blank emails. What kind of half assed spam is that? Its not selling me anything. Its totally empty.

Fayshun · 29-10-2007, 15:37

Selling advertising space?

Mark · 29-10-2007, 15:40

Get them every now and then. I don't rate spammers that highly on the evolutionary scale, but it takes a special breed to be so inept as to have obtained all the tools to send spam and then be unable to use them.

Like all other spam, it isn't worth getting wound up over. Delete and forget. There are far more important things to life than worrying over a few dozen empty emails.

petemc · 29-10-2007, 15:42

I seem to be getting a lot and Mail isn't noticing them as spam meaning I have to keep deleting them. It does seem completely pointless to spam nothing.

Fayshun · 29-10-2007, 15:45

"Your Spam Here"

Desmo · 29-10-2007, 15:50

Aye, I get a few sometimes. Utterly pointless....as is most spam.

Will · 29-10-2007, 16:03

My junkmail folder is enormous now - I spend a lot of time tweaking my junk mail filters, but these sometimes manage to slip through. It's quite frustrating.

Mark · 29-10-2007, 17:02

I just use CloudMark Desktop. I pay $2/mo for someone else to tweak my filters.

Garp · 29-10-2007, 17:04

Mail like that gets automatically filtered by my exim filter

Jonny69 · 29-10-2007, 18:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by petemc

I seem to be getting a lot and Mail isn't noticing them as spam meaning I have to keep deleting them. It does seem completely pointless to spam nothing.

That's why they are sending it though, proves they can get it through and the spam filter companies have to try and come up with some way of stopping it. Which generally means the spammers are then able to exploit another method as a result.

Before it was pictures, then it was copying chunks off data off websites to make it look like text but the antispam wised up and used text searches to find out if it was just copied, then it's a load of different bits of copied text which they can't pick up as easily. Blocking blank emails will no doubt make it harder fo legit email to come through.

They aren't as stupid as they look

29-10-2007, 15:37	#1
petemc Moonshine Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Nr Liverpewl Posts: 4,371	Anyone else getting empty spam? Its really annoying me. Totally blank emails. What kind of half assed spam is that? Its not selling me anything. Its totally empty. __________________ Thats no hamster, its a space station!

29-10-2007, 15:37	#2
Fayshun Rocket Fuel Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Adrift in the Orca Posts: 6,845	Selling advertising space? __________________ We must move forward not backward, upwards not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling...

29-10-2007, 15:42	#4
petemc Moonshine Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Nr Liverpewl Posts: 4,371	I seem to be getting a lot and Mail isn't noticing them as spam meaning I have to keep deleting them. It does seem completely pointless to spam nothing. __________________ Thats no hamster, its a space station!

29-10-2007, 15:45	#5
Fayshun Rocket Fuel Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Adrift in the Orca Posts: 6,845	"Your Spam Here" __________________ We must move forward not backward, upwards not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling...

29-10-2007, 16:03	#7
Will BBx woz 'ere :P Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 2,147,487,208	My junkmail folder is enormous now - I spend a lot of time tweaking my junk mail filters, but these sometimes manage to slip through. It's quite frustrating. __________________ *No No!*

29-10-2007, 15:40	#3
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	Get them every now and then. I don't rate spammers that highly on the evolutionary scale, but it takes a special breed to be so inept as to have obtained all the tools to send spam and then be unable to use them. Like all other spam, it isn't worth getting wound up over. Delete and forget. There are far more important things to life than worrying over a few dozen empty emails.

29-10-2007, 15:50	#6
Desmo The Last Airbender Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Pigmopad Posts: 11,915	Aye, I get a few sometimes. Utterly pointless....as is most spam.

29-10-2007, 17:02	#8
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	I just use CloudMark Desktop. I pay $2/mo for someone else to tweak my filters.

29-10-2007, 17:04	#9
Garp Preparing more tumbleweed Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Hawaii Posts: 6,038	Mail like that gets automatically filtered by my exim filter __________________ Mal: Define "interesting"? Wash: "Oh, God, oh, God, we're all gonna die"?