Weird email spam situation

[Monkeyleg]

I don't know exactly when it happened, but it was sometime last year that I stopped receiving most of the US-based spam emails I'd been getting, and instead started receiving spam emails from Brazil. I get 200 to 300 spam emails a day, and about three-quarters of them are from Brazil.

I could see if I somehow got on a spam email list in Brazil, and started receiving Brazilian spam in addition to US spam. What I don't understand is how the Brazilian spam has replaced US spam. The amount of US spam has definitely declined.

Any ideas?

[Tallpine]

So you're getting a brazilian emails every day 

[Kingcreek]

Continued outsourcing of jobs, even spam...that's how bad things have gotten.

[Fly320s]

So you're getting a brazilian emails every day 

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

[charby]

Did you click on a link in an email about a Fed Ex package?

[lee n. field]

I don't know exactly when it happened, but it was sometime last year that I stopped receiving most of the US-based spam emails I'd been getting, and instead started receiving spam emails from Brazil. I get 200 to 300 spam emails a day, and about three-quarters of them are from Brazil.

I could see if I somehow got on a spam email list in Brazil, and started receiving Brazilian spam in addition to US spam. What I don't understand is how the Brazilian spam has replaced US spam. The amount of US spam has definitely declined.

Any ideas?

You have mail hosted by someone, I assume?   Hmm, looks to be

; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> gunshopfinder.com mx
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 19559
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;gunshopfinder.com.      IN   MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
gunshopfinder.com.   3600   IN   MX   10 mail66.safesecureweb.com.

;; Query time: 75 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.1.1#53(127.0.1.1)
;; WHEN: Tue Jan 29 10:43:44 2013
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 72

Talk to the folks at safesecureweb.com.  Or whatever name you know them by.  It kind-a depends on what kind of filtering they have in place.

[MillCreek]

So you're getting a brazilian emails every day 

Are any of them offering a wax job?

[SADShooter]

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Laugh until you cry. Dilemma solved.

[CNYCacher]

Are any of them offering a wax job?

Poor sons of bitches don't know what they are getting into

[griz]

The scum has outsourced their spam?

[Tallpine]

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

I had an idea for another joke, but ...

Are any of them offering a wax job?

I will let others take some whacks at it 

[zxcvbob]

I'm getting a lot more spam at my work email address than my public email.  A LOT more, sometimes 100 message a day.  Not sure how that address got out in the wild, unless someone like CNET or travelocity sold me out to a spammer (and once 1 spammer gets your address it's all over.)

It slowed down a little after the holidays.  Most of it comes from .in and .info domains, and a few from .us  So I filter all those out.

[lee n. field]

http://getpopfile.org/

Popfile does a pretty good job, once trained.

[Tallpine]

I'm getting a lot more spam at my work email address than my public email.  A LOT more, sometimes 100 message a day.  Not sure how that address got out in the wild, unless someone like CNET or travelocity sold me out to a spammer (and once 1 spammer gets your address it's all over.)

It slowed down a little after the holidays.  Most of it comes from .in and .info domains, and a few from .us  So I filter all those out.

Apparently the corp that I'm contracting for right now gives out it's email list, because from day one I get dozens of tech related spam-mails each day 

[Monkeyleg]

Did you click on a link in an email about a Fed Ex package?

Nope.

lee n field, I've had the same hosting company for my email for about 6 years. What I don't understand is why the Brazilian email spam replaced much of the US spam. I've always gotten 200-300 spam emails a day, but the number of US spams dropped when the Brazilian stuff appeared. It's almost as though some spam bots think that my mail server is in Brazil.

[MillCreek]

I had an idea for another joke, but ...

I will let others take some whacks at it 

I hope this thread does not become tangled and unruly. 

[zxcvbob]

Nope.

lee n field, I've had the same hosting company for my email for about 6 years. What I don't understand is why the Brazilian email spam replaced much of the US spam. I've always gotten 200-300 spam emails a day, but the number of US spams dropped when the Brazilian stuff appeared. It's almost as though some spam bots think that my mail server is in Brazil.

Did you perhaps google Brazilian Fart Porn recently?   

[lee n. field]

Nope.

lee n field, I've had the same hosting company for my email for about 6 years. What I don't understand is why the Brazilian email spam replaced much of the US spam. I've always gotten 200-300 spam emails a day, but the number of US spams dropped when the Brazilian stuff appeared. It's almost as though some spam bots think that my mail server is in Brazil.

Doesn't mean they didn't change something.

There's could be a misconfiguration on their end.  There should be an option to block anything from *.br mail servers.  I doubt you're getting business from there.

[charby]

Nope.

lee n field, I've had the same hosting company for my email for about 6 years. What I don't understand is why the Brazilian email spam replaced much of the US spam. I've always gotten 200-300 spam emails a day, but the number of US spams dropped when the Brazilian stuff appeared. It's almost as though some spam bots think that my mail server is in Brazil.

Good the fed ex one is bad and starts emailing for you somewhere in south america.

[RocketMan]

Weird change-up on the spam, ML.  How in the heck does that happen?

I get very little spam.  Maybe I'm not shopping in the right place.

Seriously, I've never gotten much spam at any of the email addresses I have used over the years.  Two or three a day tops, excepting the stuff I actually signed up for at some point, and that can be stopped whenever I choose to unsubscribe.
I'm either living right or doing it wrong.  Not that I'm complaining, mind you.

Wifey gets tons of it, but most of it goes to a garbage yahoo account.

[Lee]

Shouldn't have given your email addy to the girl from emailpanema.

[Monkeyleg]

I doubt you're getting business from there.

No, I'm not. But some of the Brazilian women in the emails are really hot.

[Fly320s]

No, I'm not. But some of the Brazilian women in the emails are really hot.

Fuhgetaboutit. You're not Secret Service.

[Monkeyleg]

The Secret Service got hookers in Colombia. They don't get paid enough for Brazilian hookers.