Comments on: Spammers overcome Hotmail and Yahoo CAPTCHA systems

By: mrs joy abali

mrs joy abali — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:27:59 +0000

FROM:MRS JOY ABALI
PLOT 102 RUE 12 KOUMASSI 32
ABIDJAN COTE D’ IVOIRE

My Dear,
It’s my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I and my Son,intend to establish in your country. Though I have not met with you before but I believe,one has to risk confiding in someone to succeed sometimes in life.

There is this huge amount of Seven Million U.S dollar ($7,000,000.00) which my late Husband kept for us in a security house here in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire before he was assasinated by unknown persons. Now i and my son have decided to invest this money in your country or anywhere safe enough outside Africa for security and political reasons.

We want you to help us to transfer this fund to your country for investment purposes on the followings below:
1). Estate Industry
2). Hotel Industry

If you can be of an assistance to us we will be pleased to offer to you 15% Of the total fund on our arrival to your country.
I await your soonest response. Extend my warmest regards to your entire family.
Thank you and God bless you.
Sincerely yours,
MRS JOY ABALI.
PLOT 102 RUE 12 KOUMASSI 32
ABIDJAN COTE D’ IVOIRE.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:59:43 +0000

From: Microsoft Online Customer Service [mailto:CNTUS.PRCS.NA.00.EN.TRA.BGL.CS.T01.CUS.00.WB@css.one.microsoft.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 6:01 PM
To: Richard
Subject: RE: SRX1093265825ID – spammer from hotmail

Hello Richard,

Thank you for contacting Microsoft Customer Service.

I understand from your e-mail that you receive more than 100 e-mails per day from the same person and you would like to stop it. I know how annoying this can be.

I recommend that you contact your e-mail domain support team, who will be in a better position to resolve the issue soon.

I hope the issue will be resolved soon.

Thank you,

Satish
Microsoft Customer Service Representative

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By: Denis

Denis — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:09:39 +0000

Hello,

We are tired receiving spam. Is tthere any authority where to send the spammer details and have to stop them one by one?? I think that jail is not enough and have them count sahar sand grains should be better.

Thanks to give me an answer regarding the authorities concerned.

Denis

By: Chi Chi

Chi Chi — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:37:35 +0000

My mailbox (postal, not email) gets stuffed everyday. Have we ever gotten around that problem yet? There are even laws allowing people to spam you with snail mail. Everytime you throw a paper into the trash, you are directly contributing to deforestation and global warming. I think compared to that, spamming is just a minor inconvenience that we can cope with (of course with the help of smarter junk mail filters).

By: Omar Valerio

Omar Valerio — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:04:08 +0000

I believe way it works is as follows. They start creating an account, and parse the HTML page generated by Hotmail/Yahoo registration systems to get the image they are supposed to identify.

Then they post that same image to someone else interested in downloading pirated content from the web.

Finally they re-route the human input answer to email registration engine.

I understand that’s how an innovative OCR engine really works, distribute the OCR work among thousands of unwilling humans.

By: SiL

SiL — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:06:55 +0000

If you do some digging you’ll see that several spammers are selling auto-generated Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL accounts to anyone willing to pay for them. They also mention having hired people to pass the captcha for them. This was back around October 2006. The new “rage” in spamming appears to be what are referred to as “internal” mailers, i.e.: create an account on Hotmail, for use in spam-runs against Hotmail accounts. It bypasses more filters and is sent almost immediately, which is not what Hotmail would do with any external email domain.

Why Hotmail, Yahoo, et al, wouldn’t already know this is beyond me. They should have had some kind of blocking in place for this type of automated account creation months ago.

SiL / IKS / concerned citizen

By: Dimitris

Dimitris — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:03:46 +0000

Has anyone tried ReCaptcha.net?

By: Peter Boos

Peter Boos — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:42:32 +0000

Most spam originates from America, how about some more active policy against it, consider it as a crime.

By: Darwin

Darwin — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:10:46 +0000

Yes, the spammers are evolving. What will natures response be?