have you configured pyzor, etc AND 'scoring' in your spamassassin? essentially : Spam is dead. (So, you do not have to receive these 'blackmail' emails) For scoring : I use superblock.ascams.com - at 5.5 (If you are listed here you are sending spam, phish, virus, spyware) Then I use bl.spamcopnet also at 5.5 (If you are listed here you are sending spam) And I use the barracuda lists at 3.3 I also use block.ascams.com and at 3.0 (sometimes 3.5) (this has all the spammy social media and spam mailing lists) Then I drop anything over 12 (sometimes 13, sometimes 14 - depending if the Internet is angry or not so angry) Email servers with a good reputation - sails through - email servers with a poor reputation is marked as spam (anything over say 6 and anything over 12-14 is auto bounced For individual business domains, drop is sometimes set to 6 or 7 - so these accounts literally see no spam ever - for the legit emails that are blocked - the sending server is usually placed under pressure to 'clean up' their reputation... - and if they are not - they lose clients :) hth Andre On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 00:47:09 -0400 (EDT) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I received a blackmail message by email. It claimed that they hacked my system and had compromising videos from my computer's camera.
As proof, they gave me what they claimed was my password. But I only used that password on two sites: canadacomputers.com and xpresscanada.com (a long-dead Canada Computers site).
So I'm not worried.
I informed CC about three weeks ago. They seemed to ignore the report. I phoned again two weeks ago, and they were interested. I told them if I didn't hear that they'd informed their customers that I'd publicize this security breach.
I've heard nothing else. So I presume that they have not announced it to their customers.
Today I got another blackmail message with the same password.
What do you think that I should do?
PS: my password is a random string generated by mkpasswd(1) so it would not have been discovered by an online exhaustive search. They most likely filched the password file from CC.
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