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AOL Names Top Spam Subjects For 2005
JamesAlfaro writes "Donald Trump and "penis patch" were the most popular subject lines used by spammers this year, as the fraudsters grew more sophisticated in trying to trick consumers, America Online said Wednesday in its third annual Top 10 Spam List. Six out of the 10 top subject lines this year fell into what experts call "special-order spam," which pretend to be from a friend, or part of a legitimate, customer-driven transaction."
There is a better idea: do this locally.
.sig, whatever.
Set up two accounts on your mail server (example.org): aaron@example.org and zeke@example.org -- any two names that sound legitimate and sort very early/very late. Then, make sure these two names are well-published; you may put them on your webpage, include them in
When anything hits one of these mailboxes, just block the relevant traffic -- autolearn the piece of spam, _temp_ block the IP and/or bump its score.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Adn essentially, I imagine a LOT of people do this locally. But AOL is in a unique position, that they are the largest target for spam, and have the EASIEST way of detecting it (by flagging excessive mail to unused accounts). Have that list for the general public to suck down and everyones spam from said places would drop dramatically. The response time could be multitudes faster and more effective than spews
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