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Khel
Melbourne, Victoria
18215 posts
My Gmail account has been pretty good generally, but the past few weeks I've been getting tonnes of spam emails, the gmail spam filter catches most of them (and my spam folder is up to like 1,300 emails) but still at least 3 or 4 a day slip through.

Just wondering what kicked it off and if anyone else has been getting the same.

Also, I was impressed by this effort.

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02:05pm 14/02/12 Permalink
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Outlaw
Gold Coast, Queensland
1452 posts
none
02:08pm 14/02/12 Permalink
crazymorton
Brisbane, Queensland
2781 posts
shit loads at work.
all for some awesome job with THL luxury goods or some shit. same email different sender. woke up one morning last week to 41 emails. thought wtf has gone on in our company overnight that i've missed. turned out they were all these job offer spams.
02:14pm 14/02/12 Permalink
Crusher
Sydney, New South Wales
1055 posts
None. I am a Barracuda ESS reseller, their anti spam rocks
02:19pm 14/02/12 Permalink
IVY_MiKe
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
749 posts
...their anti spam rocks


that, OR is spamming the rest of the world

/faceman raised eyebrow

Gmail has been pretty rock solid for me (one or two slip through every 6 months or so)
Always a few on Hotmail (which is my 'oh I'm gonna get spammed if I sign up to this' email) and it's relatively quiet...


Stay away from russian porn sites, or nigerian banks Khel.

You haven't pissed off someone so petty they'd sign you up to one of those 'spam' mailing lists have ya?
02:24pm 14/02/12 Permalink
Persay
Brisbane, Queensland
7487 posts
Whats your email?

Spam filters suck. Id hate to miss a real email
02:26pm 14/02/12 Permalink
Jim
UK
12637 posts
thunderbird let about 4 new spams through this week, had to click the junk button, it was terrible

they did get flagged by zimbra though, so I could just tell thunderbird to trust spamassassin
02:28pm 14/02/12 Permalink
IVY_MiKe
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
750 posts
Spam filters suck


what's YOUR e-mail?

Spam filters or die

Blacklists are effective at a very minimum, but you'll be busy flagging shit for months.
Webmail has it sorted these days.
02:29pm 14/02/12 Permalink
Khel
Melbourne, Victoria
18216 posts
You haven't pissed off someone so petty they'd sign you up to one of those 'spam' mailing lists have ya?


Thats what I'm wondering actually. Seems like way too much, way too consistently, all laid out the same way so obviously from the same group, to just be random spam.
02:35pm 14/02/12 Permalink
thermite
Brisbane, Queensland
8950 posts
Did you enter a competition, or purchase something, express interest in something, or go somewhere like an exhibition, convention, or show?
02:41pm 14/02/12 Permalink
Opec
Brisbane, Queensland
7510 posts
I actually noticed the past couple of days I did get a lot of phishing emails from various "Australian banks" that I have message in my inbox.

Not too many Nigerians though just bank ones.
02:43pm 14/02/12 Permalink
Kiminoth
Perth, Western Australia
31 posts
I use live(hotmail), and I rarely get any spam, or at least it's all sent through to junk mail. And I have a fairly easy generic email address for it to be sent to.
02:44pm 14/02/12 Permalink
Pinky
Melbourne, Victoria
12611 posts
Hardly any spam in my inbox with GMail, although I currently have 1300+ spam that has been filtered.
02:49pm 14/02/12 Permalink
Dazhel
Gold Coast, Queensland
4429 posts
Also, I was impressed by this effort.


I wouldn't be, it's a one liner:

PS> [String]::Join("",("Porn In Attached File".Replace(' ','').ToUpper().ToCharArray() |%{1..4|%{$r=''}{$r+=[char](get-random -min 65 -max 90)}; "<font size='+1'>"+$_+"</font><font color='#e1ffff'> "+$r.ToLower()+"</font> "})) | out-file spam.html

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03:05pm 14/02/12 Permalink
jmr
Brisbane, Queensland
7602 posts
It's two lines on my display :(
03:10pm 14/02/12 Permalink
Dazhel
Gold Coast, Queensland
4430 posts
I did use <pre></pre> tags, but it broke the forum.
Sounds like you need a smaller font or a bigger display!
03:28pm 14/02/12 Permalink
Mordecai
Victoria
1244 posts
No spam in my gmail spam folder (at least for the last 30 days). Have had one or two in my main folder I think.

My hotmail account which I have had since i joined the net always has a bunch in the spam folder and very rarely gets any in the main folder.

I have another couple of accounts I use for different things. My other main "use this to contact me" one pretty much never gets spam but they other couple do.
05:51pm 14/02/12 Permalink
arkter
Gold Coast, Queensland
579 posts
Hmm, I have a wordpress website that has gone from receiving 10-15 spam comments a day to over 200 every day... I think someone has invented some revolutionary new way to spam us.
07:25pm 14/02/12 Permalink
Whoop
Brisbane, Queensland
19369 posts
ever since umart got hacked the email I used for that has been getting phishing attempts from linkedin & anz bank & the other usual suspects (yt, fb, etc) but it seems to have dropped off now. I guess they figured out the fish aren't biting.
07:28pm 14/02/12 Permalink
Cheez
Brisbane, Queensland
526 posts
By lately you mean since I have had an email account? But seriously gmail none gets thru, hotmail get bout a dozen in junk folder per day.
09:23pm 14/02/12 Permalink
Midda
Brisbane, Queensland
7668 posts
I've had my Gmail account since the first week that Gmail was available, and in that time, I had never received a single spam email until about 12 months ago. Now I get at least 2 daily. No idea why it suddenly started, as I've always been careful with my email address (and I hadn't given my address to any new sites at the time that this started).

Then again, I have another Gmail address which is just [my.name]@gmail.com, which I've never actually used, and it is completely smothered with spam, so I don't know what the deal is.
09:55pm 14/02/12 Permalink
arkter
Gold Coast, Queensland
582 posts
I've had my Gmail account since the first week that Gmail was available, and in that time, I had never received a single spam email until about 12 months ago. Now I get at least 2 daily. No idea why it suddenly started, as I've always been careful with my email address (and I hadn't given my address to any new sites at the time that this started).

Then again, I have another Gmail address which is just [my.name]@gmail.com, which I've never actually used, and it is completely smothered with spam, so I don't know what the deal is.


random name combinations probably, easy to track if it is successfully delivered
10:08pm 14/02/12 Permalink
HerbalLizard
Brisbane, Queensland
5376 posts
3 domains of mine have had some minor increases mostly Russian, nothing too serious. Have not seen any increases or anything at work
10:24pm 14/02/12 Permalink
3x0dus
Townsville, Queensland
1591 posts
Yep huge increase of spam emails coming through gmail, most seem I to be from sub email account that gmail used to filter fine but seems to not doing or not doing very well with.
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