Hello, I am having one persistent spammer, whom I have reported as phishing, blocked and deleted many times. However, mails from a person named: Erik Davis /erikdavis@substack.com always return to the Deleted folder. Does anyone know/remember the Microsoft support website, where can one report these persistent trollers? I am very grateful for your help,
With best regards,
Anaelle
There's a lot I can say(and I've said a lot) on how to mitigate this. I'm not in the mood to type it all now because I just got done typing some five paragraphs worth about anti-virus/CVE stuff.
First and foremost. You absolutely need to make sure it's a spammer. Then you absolutely need to make sure it's from a legit company or something if they provide an unsubscribe link. If they do provide an unsubscribe link and you trust it, use it. Last ditch effort, use spamcop.net (A Cisco company). You will need to know how to copy/paste the email headers to spamcop. You may need to do this a few times with each spam email, but for me it's worked to stop the spam. But I also don't load HTML or images either which I'll talk about below.
Again, there's more I can talk about here. Maybe tomorrow I'll write something up. In a nutshell you should have more than one email address. One for online sign up crap and another for very import stuff like Amazon, eBay, PayPal, your bank, what ever. Then you need to utilize email filters with folders. So all PayPal emails go to this folder, all bank emails go to that folder, etc. Now if you get an email that looks like an email from your bank or what ever and it didn't fall into the right folder, you can better scrutinize that email. That's not saying it's not legit, it totally could be since sometimes an email from PayPal, your bank or what ever may use a different sender address (and email filters need to be based on sender address!). But using a filter/folder method will help from opening a malicious email. Especially when non "normal" ASCII characters can be used in domain names. So an email from eBay could be like ebay.com but the "a" is some unicode "a" that closely matches an expected real "a" and because of that it's not eBay at all but some completely different domain name and thus email sender. Companies are aware of this trick so they try to buy up these closely matching domain names so they can't be used for malicious intent.
Also, rendering email with all of its glorious HTML content is rife for attack. Also, it'll allow your spammer to know you read the email so they can send more. (This is true for text messages as well). I render all email in text only which is gonna look like crap, but I'm used to it. On a few occasions I have to view the email in full HTML since the email is rendered that way from the jump (total nonsense on the sender's part). But you have to trust the sender. I wouldn't load images by default either. I don't. An image the size of a pixel can be used (a web bug) to know you've read the email. Also, that image (a one pixel image) can tell the spammer/hacker your IP address, user agent, etc.
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Have you ever subscribed to substack.com ? It looks like a legit company and they should be providing an unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email.
At one time in addition to using spamcop I reported spam to the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) But apparently they now operate their own honey pot so no longer accept spam forwards. BUT! I'm sure legit companies have to provide an unsubscribe link (I'd have to do my research on that) and as such could be in hot water with the FTC if they don't.
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Erik Davis | Substack
HAHAHA California... Cheech and Chong Up in Smoke Meditation Scene - YouTube
Used to live there.
Hi, F22 Simplot,
I have different email -addresses to different types of emai, but this particular email is often 'under attack'. I dunno why
And I have absolutely not ever subscribed to this substack.com.
I think this is the best solution:
"If they do provide an unsubscribe link and you trust it, use it. Last ditch effort, use spamcop.net (A Cisco company). You will need to know how to copy/paste the email headers to spamcop. You may need to do this a few times with each spam email, but for me it's worked to stop the spam"
Thank you very much, I am not in any social media to avoid these creepy guys, who appear time-to-times to stalk. I appreciate your help very much, and advice : ) I just do not know how to copy/paste the email headers to spamcop. What if I just send his post to spamcop straight?
And I have to tell also to them, this guy is an a*****, who does not want to give up. He got obviously some 'kicks' of these kind of behaviour.
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Hello once more, F22 Simplot,
I tried to send (forward) the mentioned post to spamcop. Is it a real name of the receiver? I thought Microsoft has some address I can also announce about spammers, and stalkers? Do you have an exact address to someone?
Very grateful for your advice,
Anaelle
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I managed to find Cisco's pages and made announcement of this idiot.
Thank you thousands, those guys appear usually in summer -time.
That is one reason I avoid all social media,
Anaelle :)
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