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Anyone else getting tonnes of spam lately?

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

WWW

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

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02:26pm 14/02/12 Permalink

Jim

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

WWW

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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