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October 11th 06, 09:07 PM
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message rules problem
I just started getting dozens of emails that seem like they could be from
real people with a some inane subject matter. The body of the email, however, contains one or several paragraphs comprised of disjointed, nonsensical, incomplete sentences as if they were gleaned from legitimate emails and then pasted together. When I double click the email, I see that there is a .gif attachment (which I’ve never opened). There are no indications that this might be an HTML message, but when I choose “view message in HTML,” I see that it is a pump and dump stock promotion with such language as “Stock alert,” “breaking news,” “5-day target price,” etc. There is nothing in the body of the letter that I can create a message rule for and the rules I’ve created based on the HTML part of the email don’t work (I check “Stop Processing”). I’ve gotten well over a hundred of these things and they keep coming. Does anybody have a solution. Thanks, Richard 
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October 11th 06, 09:28 PM
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Anti-spam software.
Never open e-mail from someone you do not know. --- Ted Zieglar "Backup is a computer user's best friend." Richard284 wrote: I just started getting dozens of emails that seem like they could be from real people with a some inane subject matter. The body of the email, however, contains one or several paragraphs comprised of disjointed, nonsensical, incomplete sentences as if they were gleaned from legitimate emails and then pasted together. When I double click the email, I see that there is a .gif attachment (which I’ve never opened). There are no indications that this might be an HTML message, but when I choose “view message in HTML,” I see that it is a pump and dump stock promotion with such language as “Stock alert,” “breaking news,” “5-day target price,” etc. There is nothing in the body of the letter that I can create a message rule for and the rules I’ve created based on the HTML part of the email don’t work (I check “Stop Processing”). I’ve gotten well over a hundred of these things and they keep coming. Does anybody have a solution. Thanks, Richard
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October 11th 06, 09:39 PM
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OE message rules cannot help with that type of spam, other than filtering in
your mail. In my experience, those stock alerts usually stop after a few weeks. The only other alternative would be an anti-spam program. Some Message Rule Ideas: http://www.mindspring.com/~majik/messagerules.htm Some tips: http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/tips/rules.htm Message Rules not working?: http://www.tomsterdam.com/insideoe/faqs/why.htm#rules -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express ~IB-CA~ "Richard284" wrote in message ... I just started getting dozens of emails that seem like they could be from real people with a some inane subject matter. The body of the email, however, contains one or several paragraphs comprised of disjointed, nonsensical, incomplete sentences as if they were gleaned from legitimate emails and then pasted together. When I double click the email, I see that there is a .gif attachment (which I’ve never opened). There are no indications that this might be an HTML message, but when I choose “view message in HTML,” I see that it is a pump and dump stock promotion with such language as “Stock alert,” “breaking news,” “5-day target price,” etc. There is nothing in the body of the letter that I can create a message rule for and the rules I’ve created based on the HTML part of the email don’t work (I check “Stop Processing”). I’ve gotten well over a hundred of these things and they keep coming. Does anybody have a solution. Thanks, Richard
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October 12th 06, 12:57 AM
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Bruce Hagen wrote: OE message rules cannot help with that type of spam, other than filtering in your mail. In my experience, those stock alerts usually stop after a few weeks. No, they don't. Ron
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October 12th 06, 09:42 AM
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Richard284 wrote: I just started getting dozens of emails that seem like they could be from real people with a some inane subject matter. The body of the email, however, contains one or several paragraphs comprised of disjointed, nonsensical, incomplete sentences as if they were gleaned from legitimate emails and then pasted together. When I double click the email, I see that there is a .gif attachment (which I've never opened). There are no indications that this might be an HTML message, but when I choose "view message in HTML," I see that it is a pump and dump stock promotion with such language as "Stock alert," "breaking news," "5-day target price," etc. There is nothing in the body of the letter that I can create a message rule for and the rules I've created based on the HTML part of the email don't work (I check "Stop Processing"). I've gotten well over a hundred of these things and they keep coming. Does anybody have a solution. Thanks, Richard Richard, I have had the same problem and was going to ask the same question but you beat me to it. However, there may be something you can do: try converting the HTML into plain text by going into Tools/ Options/Read and check the "read all messages in plain text" box. this will convert all of the incoming crap from HTML to normal text. Then you can look for key words like investor, invest ors, stocks, etc and create filters for them. Unfortunately, this won't work for spam messages that are as you say, made up of meaningless phrases. I suspect spammers do this so that you can't filter them without cutting out the email you want to receive, but it will eliminate all other HTML based spam. Ron
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October 17th 06, 11:50 PM
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"Ron" ??? groups.com... Richard284 wrote: I just started getting dozens of emails that seem like they could be from real people with a some inane subject matter. The body of the email, however, contains one or several paragraphs comprised of disjointed, nonsensical, incomplete sentences as if they were gleaned from legitimate emails and then pasted together. When I double click the email, I see that there is a .gif attachment (which I've never opened). There are no indications that this might be an HTML message, but when I choose "view message in HTML," I see that it is a pump and dump stock promotion with such language as "Stock alert," "breaking news," "5-day target price," etc. There is nothing in the body of the letter that I can create a message rule for and the rules I've created based on the HTML part of the email don't work (I check "Stop Processing"). I've gotten well over a hundred of these things and they keep coming. Does anybody have a solution. Thanks, Richard Richard, I have had the same problem and was going to ask the same question but you beat me to it. However, there may be something you can do: try converting the HTML into plain text by going into Tools/ Options/Read and check the "read all messages in plain text" box. this will convert all of the incoming crap from HTML to normal text. Then you can look for key words like investor, invest ors, stocks, etc and create filters for them. Unfortunately, this won't work for spam messages that are as you say, made up of meaningless phrases. I suspect spammers do this so that you can't filter them without cutting out the email you want to receive, but it will eliminate all other HTML based spam. Ron
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October 18th 06, 01:21 AM
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Like many others I have had the same problem over about a month, they
suddenly stopped. Replaced by the problem of returned of undelivered emails I have never sent in the first place from 'Postmaster' or Mailer-daeman' Keep making rules and blocking senders with no avail, trust these will stop in due course. Peter. 213.57.1.12 wrote: "Ron" ??? groups.com... Richard284 wrote: I just started getting dozens of emails that seem like they could be from real people with a some inane subject matter. The body of the email, however, contains one or several paragraphs comprised of disjointed, nonsensical, incomplete sentences as if they were gleaned from legitimate emails and then pasted together. When I double click the email, I see that there is a .gif attachment (which I've never opened). There are no indications that this might be an HTML message, but when I choose "view message in HTML," I see that it is a pump and dump stock promotion with such language as "Stock alert," "breaking news," "5-day target price," etc. There is nothing in the body of the letter that I can create a message rule for and the rules I've created based on the HTML part of the email don't work (I check "Stop Processing"). I've gotten well over a hundred of these things and they keep coming. Does anybody have a solution. Thanks, Richard Richard, I have had the same problem and was going to ask the same question but you beat me to it. However, there may be something you can do: try converting the HTML into plain text by going into Tools/ Options/Read and check the "read all messages in plain text" box. this will convert all of the incoming crap from HTML to normal text. Then you can look for key words like investor, invest ors, stocks, etc and create filters for them. Unfortunately, this won't work for spam messages that are as you say, made up of meaningless phrases. I suspect spammers do this so that you can't filter them without cutting out the email you want to receive, but it will eliminate all other HTML based spam. Ron
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#9
October 18th 06, 03:22 PM
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these are mail generated from a SPAM bot virus infected machine.
they are using you email address and sending mail as you. so of course when it is bounced back it comes back to you. not much you can do since the origional messages are BOT created. "Peter C" wrote in message oups.com... Like many others I have had the same problem over about a month, they suddenly stopped. Replaced by the problem of returned of undelivered emails I have never sent in the first place from 'Postmaster' or Mailer-daeman' Keep making rules and blocking senders with no avail, trust these will stop in due course. Peter. 213.57.1.12 wrote: "Ron" ??? groups.com... Richard284 wrote: I just started getting dozens of emails that seem like they could be from real people with a some inane subject matter. The body of the email, however, contains one or several paragraphs comprised of disjointed, nonsensical, incomplete sentences as if they were gleaned from legitimate emails and then pasted together. When I double click the email, I see that there is a .gif attachment (which I've never opened). There are no indications that this might be an HTML message, but when I choose "view message in HTML," I see that it is a pump and dump stock promotion with such language as "Stock alert," "breaking news," "5-day target price," etc. There is nothing in the body of the letter that I can create a message rule for and the rules I've created based on the HTML part of the email don't work (I check "Stop Processing"). I've gotten well over a hundred of these things and they keep coming. Does anybody have a solution. Thanks, Richard Richard, I have had the same problem and was going to ask the same question but you beat me to it. However, there may be something you can do: try converting the HTML into plain text by going into Tools/ Options/Read and check the "read all messages in plain text" box. this will convert all of the incoming crap from HTML to normal text. Then you can look for key words like investor, invest ors, stocks, etc and create filters for them. Unfortunately, this won't work for spam messages that are as you say, made up of meaningless phrases. I suspect spammers do this so that you can't filter them without cutting out the email you want to receive, but it will eliminate all other HTML based spam. Ron
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October 19th 06, 01:34 AM
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