Spam - Holy sunday

Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 11:34 am

I watch my spam box since years. And there is one question I never found a plausible answer.
Why do I receive at sunday normally no spam e-mails ?
What prevents Spammer to do this at sunday ?
Are there any religious reasons ?
Are there financial reasons ?

Or is it just so that on sunday public Internet access is often not available because libaries etc. are closed ?
I tend to believe thats the prime reason but religion is possible an other reason.

Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:19 am

That's an interesting question Susann.
By sub-conscious habit, I tend to pick up on 'trends' or 'patterns', especially if it is a behavioural pattern and I'm gutted I missed that one.
I'm off to check the dates in my Spam Box lol...

Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:41 am

Well, a spam free sunday isn´t bad Razz

but because I tend to analyze things I would need to track more accounts but this is just what I found out from 1 e-mail account address wich is "burnt" since years.
The spam free sunday isn´t a trend I´m quite sure. There are just more or less good reasons for.

Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 2:29 pm

Do you mostly get Spam from Russia and china?

If so, what you are seeing is the Great China Firewall being reset. once a week(I believe Sunday-Monday China time, and Sunday USA and Europe time). This causes a lot of the Datacenters in China to appear down, and stop outgoing packets during this reset. Also, a lot of the spammers use China's and Russias(god only knows how some of their routes are behind this firewall, but they are) proxying servers.

I cant say this is definately the cause, but could be.

Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 3:03 pm

Thanks this makes sence I´m sure this is a reason somewhere too. I ´ve never thought about something like this...

Worker Joined: Nov 22, 2004 Posts: 208 Location: Italy

School and offices are closed on sundays as well.
I suppose most of "do it yourself" spammers from less developed countries don't own their own PC and release from school/offices networks to send thier crap for pennies.

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 5:10 pm

If they are smart enough they never use the own PC.
I´ve gotten nigerian spam mails from libaries as well spam from any other possible location inclusive one spam mail from a network of the armee.
Spammers are everywhere active.
Just on Sunday is a deep silence.
Guidyy did you noticed the same behavior sundays ?