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Huge increase in spam in past 12 hours

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  • 01-04-2013 12:18pm
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    MarkoF
    Registered Users Posts: 89 ✭✭


    Am seeing a big increase in spam in my eircom.net account - at least 20 times the usual amount. 
    Is there a problem with the filtering? Any else see this?


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    douglasman
    Registered Users Posts: 241 ✭✭douglasman


    MarkoF wrote: »
    Am seeing a big increase in spam in my eircom.net account - at least 20 times the usual amount. 
    Is there a problem with the filtering? Any else see this?
    Yes, same for me.  Normally get a handful of spam a day on eircom.net, checked today and 86 spam messages in one go, so something radically wrong there!


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    Mollywolly
    Registered Users Posts: 566 ✭✭✭Mollywolly


    Same for me too.  Couldn't believe it when I saw 68 spam messages, all promoting the same weight loss program.  Is that what you guys are getting?  It started around 5am and doesn't seem to have stopped yet.


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    MarkoF
    Registered Users Posts: 89 ✭✭MarkoF


    Mollywolly wrote: »
    Same for me too.  Couldn't believe it when I saw 68 spam messages, all promoting the same weight loss program.  Is that what you guys are getting?  It started around 5am and doesn't seem to have stopped yet.
    Yup - weight loss stuff with the names of hollywood starlets  attached - very obvious spam which should be easy to filter.
    Looks like something is borked.


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    RossieMan
    Registered Users Posts: 6,766 ✭✭✭RossieMan


    Aye there's been a big attack lately.

    This may interest some of you, or not.


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    MarkoF
    Registered Users Posts: 89 ✭✭MarkoF


    58 additional weight-loss spams received between 1 am and 10 am.
    What's up


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    Mollywolly
    Registered Users Posts: 566 ✭✭✭Mollywolly


    MarkoF wrote: »
    58 additional weight-loss spams received between 1 am and 10 am.
    What's up
    That's nothing!  I'm up to 250 now since 1st April and they're coming in at an average of 6 per hour.  For some perverse reason (dunno what) I'm keeping them for a few days to see what the final tally is :)


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    MarkoF
    Registered Users Posts: 89 ✭✭MarkoF


    Its dropped off dramatically in the last 12 hours or so.
    Down to 7 since last night.:)


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    Mollywolly
    Registered Users Posts: 566 ✭✭✭Mollywolly


    MarkoF wrote: »
    Its dropped off dramatically in the last 12 hours or so.
    Down to 7 since last night.
    Same for me too.  Either the Eircom spam filter is working properly again or whoever was spamming has been caught.  Personally, I'm hoping it's the latter - hate spammers with a passion :)


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    eircom: Mark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,441 ✭✭✭eircom: Mark


    Hi Guys,
     
    I can assure you that managers in e-mail support are aware of a number of customers reporting spam either through technical support or via our online channels.
     
    They are investigating and we have sent on a number of examples & e-mail accounts to them directly. We hope to have an update soon.
     
    Thanks, Mark


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