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880691 2010-04-28 07:31:00 Hi All.

We are getting spam from Live Mail & Hotmail. All of a sudden as of a few days ago. Is it bothering anyone else? ISP is Orcon. PJ
Poppa John (284)
880692 2010-04-28 07:37:00 Are you logging into Hotmail? If you are, those belong to Microsoft, not Orcon Speedy Gonzales (78)
880693 2010-04-28 07:56:00 Speedy... The laptop uses Live Mail This comp uses OE7 (!). When I go into OE & click to recieve E-Ms I get any from Orcon & those from Gmail as well.As far as I know I am not signed in to Hotmail nor Livemail.

The address on the spam is all MSN Livemail & Hotmail with an unknown sender name. Only once so far have we had a spam E-m with our proper E-m address xxxxxxxx@orcon.net.nz.
Poppa John (284)
880694 2010-04-28 08:43:00 It's hard to know what's going on without more info . Sometimes the information they've stolen about people's accounts through phishing to send spam, or they spoof the address . Sometimes the spammers find a way to break the Captcah for a while .

If you have spam email that appears to be coming from Hotmail or Live please report it as described here ( . com/solution . aspx?solutionid=e1e87293-909f-45e9-9dcd-920a04719bc3" target="_blank">windowslivehelp . com), that way the Hotmail guys can look into it .

Sadly it's a never ending battle with the spammers .

cheers
W
waldok (15185)
880695 2010-04-29 23:26:00 Hi All . . . The Hotmail spam is getting worse . I have contacted Orcon & am awaiting a reply . Maryann uses livemail on her laptop, on this desktop I use OE . But they are coming thro into OE via orcon .
I have been looking around in Livemail & see that it is possible to SET the spam level in JunkMail . Will tell Maryann & see what she wants to do .

Is anybody else seeing a rise in Hotmail spam? PJ
Poppa John (284)
880696 2010-04-29 23:42:00 Hi All . . . Three cheers for Orcon . Just got a reply from the helpdesk . Saying that our spam setting was only at "mark as spam" . H e has set it to a higher level . I was not aware it was set there, thought it was higher . PJ Poppa John (284)
880697 2010-04-30 05:59:00 Yeah I got some spam sent from a friend's hotmail addy, only thing is she died on 29th of March! I don't know if anyone can cancel her email or not. Some spammer must have got hold of it.

LL
lakewoodlady (103)
880698 2010-04-30 11:36:00 Doesn't sound like there is much hope - Leo Notenboom answered this question recently in his newsletter. Unfortunately a link to the article didn't work. linw (53)
880699 2010-05-01 22:24:00 Good day All.
Four more baddies this morning. Can someone tell me how to get them from the OE window to send to a hotmail report place? Thanks.PJ:mad::help:
Poppa John (284)
880700 2010-05-01 22:40:00 I would use Gmail instead. Forget about Hotmail Speedy Gonzales (78)
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