Yup, had some clients ask me about it recently, just advised they move to a new platform/provider for email. 

I've had a whole lot from some dodgy 'Sunglasses Servies'

Yeah, last week they were all Ray Bans.

I've sent a heap off to "missedspam" at Clear/Vodafone .... does that actually do any good?

Still getting the spam. Usually between 40-60 a day, sometimes more. It did die down for a bit, but that was relief only for a few days before it increased yet again.

Perhaps you could use an email client like Thunderbird which has spam detection capabilities

mugs2000:

 

Perhaps you could use an email client like Thunderbird which has spam detection capabilities

 

GData does that for me.

Apparently issues in the back end.  A big fix has been prepared and will be online "soon".

davemc:

 

Apparently issues in the back end.  A big fix has been prepared and will be online "soon".

 

That is Vodafone talk...

The thing is, the tiny minority of people that get sucked in by $1 rayban spams make it worthwhile for the spammers to persist. 

I wonder what kind of person falls for these things...some astute people have been fooled by spammers so I wonder if it is some psychological quirk in some peoples brains that tricks them.  

In the same way there is a color blindness gene maybe there is a 'spam sucker' gene . 

I wonder how much it costs to be a spammer. . . From a monetary cost it must be pretty cheap .It would be more the time cost in hours spent keeping it going as the email providers play whackamole . 

I don't know if I've noticed an increase, i've always received a ton of spam. 

     >...some astute people have been fooled by spammers so I wonder if it is some psychological quirk in some peoples brains that tricks them.<

Some years ago I was working for a Govt Dept that was involved with on-line security standards, and my boss was on all sorts of international committees for such. One day he said he was just going out to his bank to sort out his inability to access his accounts after responding to an email asking him to do new passwords etc!  

I immediately got him to 'phone the bank and shut all accounts, and asked why he did it online ... he showed me the phishing-style email, and I showed him (and half the office) what IP address it had come from etc etc (simply using hovering, headers, IP addresses and Who Is, showed, if I recall, a site in Bulgaria ).

This guy had been steeped in online security matters for a number of years, but for some reason simply accepted the letter and web-site as genuine.

Rickles:

 

     >...some astute people have been fooled by spammers so I wonder if it is some psychological quirk in some peoples brains that tricks them.<

 

Some years ago I was working for a Govt Dept that was involved with on-line security standards, and my boss was on all sorts of international committees for such. One day he said he was just going out to his bank to sort out his inability to access his accounts after responding to an email asking him to do new passwords etc!  

 

I immediately got him to 'phone the bank and shut all accounts, and asked why he did it online ... he showed me the phishing-style email, and I showed him (and half the office) what IP address it had come from etc etc (simply using hovering, headers, IP addresses and Who Is, showed, if I recall, a site in Bulgaria ).

 

This guy had been steeped in online security matters for a number of years, but for some reason simply accepted the letter and web-site as genuine.

 

 

 

It sounds a bit like Martin Matthews who was running a govt department that was subsequently defrauded by a staff member because he did not implement basic financial controls. 

So called experts who are found wanting in their own field of expertise. 

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/24-05-2017/pressure-builds-in-auditor-general-case/

The spam fix is in.  Spam volume should drop for clear.net.nz addresses.

Small correction... its live for paradise ... clear.net.nz next week.  There will be a small degree of fine tuning and tweaking over the next few days before the bulk of the ex-telstra customer base are cut over and covered by reputation based filtering.  There are always little things which crop up with major cutovers.

Non-authoritative answer:
paradise.net.nz mail exchanger = 10 mx.paradise.net.nz.

host 203.97.33.215
215.33.97.203.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer vmxin.clear.net.nz.

Non-authoritative answer:
clear.net.nz mail exchanger = 20 mx.clear.net.nz.

host mx.clear.net.nz.
mx.clear.net.nz is an alias for mxin.clear.net.nz.
mxin.clear.net.nz has address 203.97.33.212

telnet vmxin.clear.net.nz 25

Trying 203.97.33.215...
Connected to 203.97.33.215.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 vmxin2.clear.net.nz ESMTP Postfix
quit
221 2.0.0 Bye

telnet mx.clear.net.nz 25

Trying 203.97.33.212...
Connected to mxin.clear.net.nz.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mxin3-orange.clear.net.nz ESMTP

    That is Vodafone talk...

Not this time. Guru Pornolio speaks truth, based on a lot of hard work.