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Too Much Obvious Spam, What Can Be Done?

CBeyer

Just a sample of the messages (subjects) I received today:

  • LAST-DAY: You currently-have $155 in Walmart-Reward Points: Redeem-Today from Walmart Points Center <WalmartPointsCenter@shoppingcardonlinerewards.com >
  • Garage door repair services from Garage Door Fixes <Drake@janascircle.com>
  • New phone features boost productivity from Telephone Systems <Ellis@shhanchang.com>
  • Always-Wanted to Drive a Ferrari? Rent-an-Exotic Car from Exotic Car Rental <ExoticCarRental@uniquecarrentalshop.com>
  • Hot Vacation-Specials to Costa Rica from Costa Rica Trips <CostaRicaTrips@foremosttravelplans.com>

This comes in every few minutes, not only to me, but the exact messages to everyone in the office (some 80+ employees).

We currently run PureMessage 3.1.3 for Exchange 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2. This wasn't an issue a few months back, just recently. How do such obvious spam messages get through? Is there any way to combat it? We're talking 30 - 40 messages a day multiplied by 80+ users... Sorry, but that should invalidate your product as a Spam Filter...

Any thoughts, any avenues I can turn to get a resolution to this?

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    We have the same problem. I keep trying to block all of the weird domain extensions that are being used, but now they are using .eu and I don't want to block that. The spammer keeps switching IP address ranges as well. Based upon the subject line it is obviously SPAM. I have a license for Sophos through March 2017, but we are considering getting something different and losing out on the money since PureMessage just is not effective. However based on how long this thread has been going and no response yet from Sophos, I doubt anything will change.
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    We have the same problem. I keep trying to block all of the weird domain extensions that are being used, but now they are using .eu and I don't want to block that. The spammer keeps switching IP address ranges as well. Based upon the subject line it is obviously SPAM. I have a license for Sophos through March 2017, but we are considering getting something different and losing out on the money since PureMessage just is not effective. However based on how long this thread has been going and no response yet from Sophos, I doubt anything will change.
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