getting rid of spam question

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I keep getting spam from these morons that try to get me to buy stocks. They
put the message in a bitmap or jpg file in the body and then after that
there's a bunch of meaningless text - looks like extracts from books or
articles. The only way I found so far was everytime I get one of these is to
put the sender in the blocked sender's list but its growing by about a dozen
senders every day. Is there another way to block this type of spam?

Thanks for any help
Bob
 
rdufour said:
I keep getting spam from these morons that try to get me to buy stocks.
They put the message in a bitmap or jpg file in the body and then after
that there's a bunch of meaningless text - looks like extracts from books
or articles. The only way I found so far was everytime I get one of these
is to put the sender in the blocked sender's list but its growing by about
a dozen senders every day. Is there another way to block this type of spam?

Thanks for any help
Bob
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Your block senders list is useless. Outlook 2003's spam blocking is
reasonable. You still must deal with the false positives. You might want to
try SpamBayes. You can read about it here: http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
These is a link to the free download.

Final solution? Eliminate buyers of their wares...
 
rdufour said:
I keep getting spam from these morons that try to get me to buy stocks.
They put the message in a bitmap or jpg file in the body and then after
that there's a bunch of meaningless text - looks like extracts from books
or articles. The only way I found so far was everytime I get one of these
is to put the sender in the blocked sender's list but its growing by about
a dozen senders every day. Is there another way to block this type of spam?

Thanks for any help
Bob
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Set up a rule to delete all messages that are not from a sender in your
contacts.
 
What version of Outlook do you use?

Blocking senders is pointless- they use different addresses each time. If
you can't create a rule to look for words in the body, then you'll need to
use a real spam filter.

http://www.slipstick.com/rules/junkmail.htm - Sue's method works well if you
don't want to use an antispam filter.
 
rdufour said:
I keep getting spam from these morons that try to get me to buy stocks.
They put the message in a bitmap or jpg file in the body and then after
that there's a bunch of meaningless text - looks like extracts from books
or articles. The only way I found so far was everytime I get one of these
is to put the sender in the blocked sender's list but its growing by about
a dozen senders every day. Is there another way to block this type of spam?

Thanks for any help
Bob
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The only solution that doesn't involve you in more work verifying false
positives:

http://www.lbetoolbox.com/how-to-stop-spam.htm


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The only solution that doesn't involve you in more work verifying false
positives:
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Right-click on sender's address in message, add to contacts (whitelist
address book).

Your solution doesn't work. What happens when your domain is hijacked and
used by the spammers, as my primary domain is at least twice a year? That's
why whitelisting works well, because you DON'T have to change your address.
 
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