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Eircom net spam?

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  • 11-04-2012 6:28pm
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    corblimey
    Registered Users Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭


    Anyone else noticing an upsurge in uncaught spam the last few months on their eircom.net accounts? I used to get approx 0 obvious spam every day, but it's risen sharply since around Christmas, I'm now getting 10-20 per day. Not a huge amount considering the address has been 'on the net' since 96 and I'm sure I've used it for some dodgy sites down through the years :D but it's still more than I used to get.

    Of course the spam reporting service on eircom.net gives a 404 when you try to submit an issue, but I was just wondering if others had similar issues. The tone of the spam appears to have changed too, from "get yer fr33 \/iagr4 heer" to "Dear Sir, have some free Viagra, thanks".


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    jamesd
    Registered Users Posts: 3,441 ✭✭✭jamesd


    Getting a few extra over the last few weeks


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    java
    Registered Users Posts: 319 ✭✭java


    Seeing the same behaviour myself. OP where is the report spam feature on eircom.net? Is it within webmail?


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    corblimey
    Registered Users Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭corblimey


    java wrote: »
    Seeing the same behaviour myself. OP where is the report spam feature on eircom.net? Is it within webmail?

    This is the one I tried
    http://support.eircom.net/abuse/
    but like I said, it posted to a 404 page


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    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,467 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    corblimey wrote: »
    This is the one I tried
    http://support.eircom.net/abuse/
    but like I said, it posted to a 404 page
    Waste of time, and so is emailing abuse@eircom.net .. you just get an automated response telling you to use the web form. I'm having issues at the moment with my email provider who are saying they are blocking some eircom SMTP servers due to excessive spam being generated, and there's no way of contacting them.


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