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Well, apparently this phishing/scamming company “Warranty Services” has made its way up to Canada. My wife and I (and several of our friends) have been receiving non-stop phone calls saying something like “This is your second and final warning, the warranty on your vehicle is about to expire!”. They display a caller-ID like (416) 000-XXXX (seemingly random numbers).

I’m trying to get them to stop calling me!

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As if e-mail spam wasn’t bad enough, my new Bell phone number (scarcely a month old) along with alternate # I planned on using as a fax line is already getting spam voicemail and spam faxes.

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Unfortunately, I hosed both my desktop system and my router setup the other day (don’t ask). In trying to reconstruct things, I ran across this ‘SPF’ feature for mail sender authentication that my DNS provier (easyDNS) is now supporting.

The basic theory is that it’ll check the ‘reply-to’ address with the originating domain of the e-mail, and if that domain is not authorized to send e-mail from that address, the e-mail gets stamped with a big warning (or rejected outright).

I’m not sure at how useful it will actually be to slow down spam — after all, there are lots of insecure domains out there — but it took me like 15 minutes to set up for my domains so why not, eh? I used this SPF setup wizard to make life easier.

Now, all I have to do is stop forwarding the e-mail for my whois address to my regular inbox. I get a ridiculous number of spam messages a day in there. I can’t wait till CIRA implements their new policy of non-public addresses…

There’s also this interesting Bandwidth Log for my router. It was easy enough to set up but making it reload whenever I reboot the router is a little more involved and I’ll pass on it for now… and making it backup the tracked data… well, forget it! ;)

Hrm, well, this comment spam was getting out of hand, so I did a google search, and… found the MT-Blacklist plugin. Yay, hopefully that’ll keep the spammers at bay!!

Well, that’s that. Gotta get some zzzs now!

Ok, this is getting annoying. Spambots are now making COMMENTS on my blog. If this continues, I’m going to have to disable commenting. :(

They’re being kinda stupid though, you’d think they could pick a blog that actually had readers… ;)

Evil! Vile! Relentless! It invades my Inbox, wastes my time, and forces me to write these horrid pointless rants!!!
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Well, I usually hate spam, but this one had a funny image attached to it. They’re getting somewhat more creative, I suppose. I still reported it to Spamcop though.
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