Questions tagged [spam]
Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately.
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Pegasus spyware, computers, and spam [closed]
I just received an email in my spam folder saying I had been infected with Pegasus. After a few searches, it looks like Pegasus is a multi-million dollar toolkit used by Israelis and others to ...
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Locating Spambot
My mail server (IP, not domains) was recently flagged as a spam source by Spamhaus and I'm looking for help at tracking down the source.
First, I verified the forward and reverse DNS records, SPF ...
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What's the risk of interacting with a social engineer?
I received a WhatsApp message.
I never registed with any recruitment job portal, or even speak Arabic at all
What are the dangers in myself trying to find out what happened (did they send the same ...
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Why spamassasin is doing dns lookup?
I have a server which have configured Amavis and Spamassasin (in default state only). I recently noticed log lines that probably indicate DNS query failure, below is an excerpt:
Nov 21 11:15:40 ...
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Newsletter Spam Attack - Somehow by not directly attacking?
Our website(shopify website) has been getting a bot attack on our newsletter subscription form. Not sure if emails are real or not but there is some from gmail and hotmail etc or some from weird ...
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How to determine if email is from from gaia.bounces.google.com or just forwarded from there? [duplicate]
Shown below are the "from and to" portions of the message. It looks like it is just forwarded by "gaia.bounces.google.com". The message itself (and I have quite a few of them) ...
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Spam e-mails near events, geographically driven?
At the beginning of this month, I took an appointment to get the passport, the date was set for the 24 of August. The 23 of August I received a spam email mimicking the government office which among ...
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I clicked on a SMS spam link. Am I safe? [duplicate]
I received an SMS from an unknown number with a link. Having just ordered stuff from AliExpress bit earlier so, thinking it was related to that, I clicked without doing due diligence. My bad.
I went ...
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How spammers are abusing 2fa SMS in web apps?
My webapp has an SMS 2FA option. When someone enrolls, it sends an SMS to the number specified by the user with hard coded text that contains a token that the user needs to then enter in the web app ...
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Automated bot/spammer bypassing google recaptcha v2
I have a Laravel registration form with the invisible google recaptcha v2 installed with the security set to highest level within the recaptcha admin console - code as follows:
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Is there a safe way to follow a suspicious link? [duplicate]
When I get suspicious emails, I pretty much always just report it as spam, delete forever, and then be done with them. Low quality spam is pretty easy to identify, but sometimes they are on the ...
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Is email scraping still a thing for spammers
I've run a website for barely three months now and put my emails on there. I also run a catch-all address on this domain. Since my website is online, I haven't received a single spam email on the ...
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How to block a POST curl request
My WordPress website received a couple of fake subscriptions to the newsletter. I identified the logs, most of them with the same form as below:
xx.xx.xx.xx example.com - [04/Feb/2023:06:01:42 +0100] &...
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How to stop spammers registration?
I have an app that sends emails to customers, and I've noticed a large number of spammers signing up to send spam to users, taking advantage of the tool for sending notifications to customers by email....
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Receive more spam emails [duplicate]
Out of curiosity I want my email address to receive as much spam as possible.
For this, I have already set up a virtual machine, with a Postfix that has a catch-all user, so I receive every email to ...
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