Online SAS hosting spammers

I’ve been getting “Property Spam” recently with subject lines like “A showcase of great properties on the Costa del Sol” or “Achieve high rental yields in an up-and-coming UK city”. These are sent to addresses that have never signed up to any mailing list (but have been sent spam in the past and would be …

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Getting a lot of spam from .tk domains – kill it with spamassassin

Seems they are cheap to set up, spammers set up domainkeys / SPF too! Here’s a spamassassin rule (don’t use it if you get valid mail from .tk): header      NAUGHTY_FROM_TLD  From   =~ /@[a-z0-9\-\.]+\.(tk)/i describe    NAUGHTY_FROM_TLD  From address is from a naughty TLD (eg .tk) score       NAUGHTY_FROM_TLD  2.8 UPDATE: Looks like the spammers get a free …

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Scanning your Gmail with SpamAssassin

I’ve noticed more spam emails get into my Gmail INBOX lately, so decided to scan it with SpamAssassin. The Perl commandline script (gmail-spamassassin) I wrote to do this can be downloaded from GitHub. I also subclassed Net::IMAP::Simple to support Gmail’s IMAP extensions, so you’ll need Gmail.pm from the repository too. I intend to release Net::IMAP::Simple::Gmail …

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