Hell, for all I know, they originate via Earthlink. That’d be kind of shitty, mass-spamming your own clients on behalf of well-paying spammers or something. But I have no evidence of that.
I’m theoretically gettting a callback from 2nd tier tech support today. They keep calling when I’m not at my desk and then not trying again, and I keep calling and poking at them to requeue the damn call.
For awhile I had my client-side filters in Eudora auto-forwarding each and every one to their abuse-reporting email address… after the first 700 or so, they started blocking them, identifying my emails to them as spam!! (They went to my server-side “Sent Spam” folder).
Or so I thought… the call concluded with a statement that the issue is now being escalated to 3rd tier. I’m supposed to get a callback in “24 to 48 business hours”.
Well, I’ll be damned… I haven’t received a single piece of aolea today and it’s 10 am already. And yesterday I received an email from earthlink’s spamblocker (which has never previously emailed to this account due to the settings I use) in which all the deleted spam emails were listed as contact@cron-job.org
Spoke too soon. They’ve “done it” by blocking the entirety of the top-level “.us” domain. I could’ve done that my own freaking self.
(The cron-job.org stuff was a spammer I had forgotten about, that was my own separate server-side filter; had nothing to do with the aolea stuff)
OK, I give up… ==> searched all my email going back to 1991 for every inbound email from a .us sender. Found about 7 people. Entered them into my earthlink server-side Address Book, and I have the setting that says don’t nuke any email from someone in my Address Book even if it appears to be spam. Seven people in nearly 30 years indicates it’s a pretty low likelihood that some legitimate new sender will be trying to email me from a .us domain.
The earthlink 3rd tier tech was sympathetic and possibly somewhat frustrated himself although he was delicately circumspect about that: “Do me a favor and click the button on webmail for sending a suggestion. I can forward a ticket making that suggestion but it’s more likely to receive their attention if it comes from you because they care about customer input”.
Thanks AHunter3! Nothing has changed for me – still getting 12+ aolea spams per day and reporting them with absolutely no help or change from Earthlink. Odd you mention cron-job: I get even more of those, but since I added them to the spam blocker Earthlink filters them out. Still, they send me a spam-blocker report every week saying they’re still coming.
Anyway, my solution is cancelling Earthlink. They clearly are incompetent, and this coupled with the ridiculously small size allotted per account – 100 MB, which is one-tenth of what Yahoo offers for FREE – is unacceptable these days.
I’m using Outlook 2016 - I just created a rule to automatically delete messages with the word aolea.us in the senders name. I ran the rule against my junk folder and all of the *aolea.us emails were permanently deleted. I don’t care about bandwidth, it only takes a few minutes to get my 100+ legit emails.
To really control Spam you do NEED use their Highest setting… as far as to having to use an address book, yes you do but once an address is added then you get the mail, otherwise if not in the address book it goes into suspect spam which can be set to automatic clean itself at an interval you set.
By doing so, I use tbird and I get my mail from the POP Mail… I dont login to webmail unless need access that suspect mail folder
You can have a SPAM summary sent you daily or whatever you set to, that way you d/l pop mail, you get that report and you can scan the list for any legit mail for example my suspect spam report:
(addresses xxxed out)
Below is your summary of suspect email messages. No action is
necessary. Messages will be deleted 14 days after receipt.
Date: 11/16/2017 - Sender: “LowerMyBills” xxxxxx
Subject: Switch to a 15 Yr Fixed Mortgage Before It Expires Soon
Date: 11/16/2017 - Sender: “AquaTru Purifier Promo” xxxxxxx
Subject: Reduce Toxic Chemicals From Your Drinking Water
Date: 11/16/2017 - Sender: “1Tac USA” xxxxxxxx
Subject: Insanely Bright Military Flashlight Just Released To The Public
Date: 11/16/2017 - Sender: “Platinum Visa Credit Card from Credit One Bankadmin” xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Find Your Perfect Credit Card
I can quick scan the suspect spam report sent daily and if I see a legitimate email I only then log into webmail, access suspect spam and if legit and want to get further in inbox i Move the post to my inbox and add to address book… a couple clicks and done.
Sure its a little work having to log into webmail and all but I only have to do it infrequent when legit mails in my suspect spam which self cleans after 1 week
It might not be so good if using acct for a business that gets loads of emails but for personal…
If have a business and the amt of emails isn’t that high you might do with the small bother
You have to log into webmail if want to report email as spam, but once you have moved all legit mail from suspect spam folder and it only has spam you can click once to checl ALL and then select report as span enmass at once.
The risk there through if download all mail is a risk of downloading a worm/trojan/malware in message… With some
email programs they default to showing html… with T-bird I have mail shown as plain text… so if use a program that shows messages in html and you allow html you run a risk… just saying… vis a vis a web based system like earthlink has
Okay, so all the spam is from the same company. I just got a spam from “PrettyLitter Cats <contact@8HZFM0ZS4FBKaolea.us>.” Earthlink doesn’t recognize it as spam and their blocker can’t deal with changing forged source addresses so it went through.
HOWEVER checking the spamblocker summary they sent me last week, there are two similar spams: “PrettyLitter Cats” <contact@cron-job.org> and “PrettyLitter Cats” <DZ7X4H9DCX@nidoo.in>.
Clearly one company is behind cron-job.org, nidoo.in and aolea. They must be sending out millions of spams a day because I’m getting at least twenty a day between all these addresses. I’ve started fighting back by attacking the advertisers on Twitter – Renewal by Anderson, Amora Coffee, and American Standard baths – but it’s odd nobody can stop them. This seems like a class action suit that could net millions for a good lawyer.
Yes, EarthLink’s spam handling is so '90s. And its webmail interface is awful.
The obvious solution is to migrate off of EarthLink to a better email provider - I use gmail, but there are plenty of others who allow for more storage, have better spam handling and user interfaces that are at least decent (ever tried to search for an email on earthlink??)
But here’s a solution you may not have thought of that I tripped over as I migrate my father off of earthlink, mainly to dodge the 50+ daily spams from *aolea.us, nidoo and cron-job. Go set up a gmail account (this also works with Currently.com - AT&T Yahoo Email, News, Sports & More). Set it up to access your earthlink account via pop, and set to delete everything from earthlink as soon as it loads it. Gmail’s spam filter will take care of the bulk of the crap and you can write decent filters for the rest. gmail supports both pop and imap if you’d rather use your favorite email program vs. the web.
I never use my Gmail account, but when I go visit it on a monthly basis or so, I’m astounded with just how much spam it has. Considering I never use it, they’re not getting the address by anything I’ve done.
I was also getting a lot of emails from cron-job.org. I was able to block them using server side filters though. But I think you guys are on to something about them being related to aolea.us.
I have marked hundreds of these emails as spam to earthlink as well, and of course have not seen any reduction in these. I tried blocking individual domains, but they just constantly change the domain name. I was thinking maybe they only had a certain number of domains, but it’s more likely that they are able to add random characters and not actually have different domain names. I’m assuming different actual domain names might be expensive.
Earthlink is clearly not interested in reducing or eliminating these spam emails. I’m so done with them. I’ve resisted changing email providers because I’ve had that address for years and used it for business. But I think I’m going to just trash these worthless bastards and get it over with. Maybe convert over the course of a year or something, just in case. I can’t stand it anymore.
I’m also building a new computer with Win 10, and won’t be able to use Outlook Express any more. But I like to store emails forever, so can anyone suggest a really good email program that stores bulk email well, has the ability to delay sending an email until a certain time, and has the ability to deal with a wildcard for handling this aolea.us problem? It would be nice if there was a way for it to tell the server they’re spam, instead of downloading the spam and then deleting it.
As bad as earthlink’s filtering options are, they’re specatularly good compared to verizon email. Verizon has handed theirs over to AOL. Seriously. And AOL doesn’t provide any useful filtering at all, in addition to which they themselves spam you — I got an email from AOL Member Services trying to sell me Windows-based PC-performance-improver software.
I just realized I had also added nidoo.in to my blocked senders list in the past. So there does seem to be a connection between aolea.us, nidoo.in, and cron-job.org. They’re probably all the same people, or at least traffic in the same spam list.
I just added .us to Earthlink’s blocked senders list. It’s not worth trying to preserve legit .us emails, at the cost of putting up with 20 spam emails a day from aolea.us. Screw it.
I’ve read on other forums that gmail’s spam filters are pretty much amazing, and it’s clear that Earthlink is either not worth a crap, or possibly in on the aolea conspiracy, so seeing as how I’m paying for Earthlink and they’re clearly not going to fix this, I’ve decided to begin the arduous task of leaving Earthlink. Screw them.
Wow - I’m blown away that everyone else on Earthlink is getting the exact same spam emails - I thought it was just my email address had become vulnerable along the way somewhere but clearly these particular spammers (cronjon, aeola.us, nidoo, etc) target Earthlink and Earthlink has to have some involvement if so many users have reported them and they have continued to do nothing to filter them out as spam. I guess I am going to try blocking the whole .us domain next because my webmail box keeps filling up so damn fast I can’t stay ahead of it. If I hadn’t had this dumb earthlink email address for 25 years I’d switch…
