Gmail Spam

Grimlock

In the past month I've started getting a large amount of SPAM in my mail account, I've always been very careful with my address and I never got spam but about a month ago I started getting it and now despite filters I'm still getting 6-7 a day. :mad:

I've had a quick read bout on the net and apparently this has happened to others.

There are no unsubscribe links at the bottom of the mails and it's fooking annoying. So I'm wondering if this has begun happening to anyone else or does anyone have any ideas on how to stop them.

Cheers

Tobias Greeshman

I'm getting about the same if not more daily as well, but they're all going into the spam folder so its grand. Although some times one gets through to the inbox.

If they're ending up in the spam folder then I wouldn't worry about it really, after a month they'll be deleted.

Noelie

Nothing has ever gotten through my spam filter but i have noticed there is more going into the spam folder probably 5 or more a day, up till last week it was about 1 a day.

irlrobins

Never use the "sign out" link at the bottom of a spam unless you know the source 100%. Most of the sign out links don't work and all they do is confirm that the address is active and that you actully open the mails instead of just deleting them. You'll just end up with more spam by doing that.

JoeyJJ

I never used to get any till 1 day I used an internet cafe and used my email address to sign in, order something from amazon and since then I have been getting at least 10 a day all going into spam filter. I think that there might have been some spyware on the machine..

Grimlock

It must have been something like that for me too.
And yeah the majority go to spam or even straight to trash but I just don't like the idea that my address is in some spammers database.

Anyone know where these are orginating from?

irlrobins

I think 80% of it comes from the states.

daveg

Getting a load of it too for the past week or so. Most of it seems US market targetted. Fvckers.

IamMetaldave

Same here... I've been getting it for a little longer but the ammount has definetly increased in the last month. But like other, it lands in the spam folder with exception to a few that get into my inbox.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

I never clear out my spam folder, and the figure usually stays at about 500, which means 500 spam messages a month, which is about 17 a day!!!

I get loads through the filter as well, usually about 4 a day

zilog_jones

I'm not sure if I've ever got spam on my gmail account (never noticed any), and I've had it a good while now (since Jan '05). I'll never check it on a PC I can't trust in future - never really thought about spyware affecting it.

And yeah, those "unsubscribe" links are complete w@nk - they are how I ruined my first Hotmail account back when I was a punk kid.

Ruu_Old

The spam filter catches all of the crap that I come across.

Basq

GMail Spam's filter is phenomenal really..

.. one or two typically slip through every week or so but very few as compared to other e-mail providers.

snappieT

I tend to get 500 a month that the spam catcher picks up on, but I still get about 5 a day coming into my inbox, mostly with images that have stock information in them, and the occasional viagra spot. I'm getting fairly sick of it at this stage.

TempestSabre

snappieT wrote:

I tend to get 500 a month that the spam catcher picks up on, but I still get about 5 a day coming into my inbox, mostly with images that have stock information in them, and the occasional viagra spot. I'm getting fairly sick of it at this stage.

Even after you flag them as spam they are still getting through? Thats odd.

mikhail

basquille wrote:

GMail Spam's filter is phenomenal really..

.. one or two typically slip through every week or so but very few as compared to other e-mail providers.

They've let through far more than I'm used to recently. Yahoo's seems to be holding up slightly better for me.

I get something like 30 a day to my gmail account now, and I'm reasonably careful about where my address appears. :mad:

su_dios

I've been gettin a good bit too lately. The odd time one or two slip through and its easy to identify them but I have no idea where they are coming from. I only use my gmail address on trusted sites etc, use my hotmail for the potential spam ones.

There is a program or plugin my brother uses, not sure of the name but it hides the spam count on your gmail so looks like you have no spam at all.

28064212

You don't have to give your address out to end up on a spam list. My Gmail address is a fairly abstract one i.e. not likely to be guessed easily. However, I have a backup one which is just firstname.secondname@gmail.com. Have never used it in any way, rarely log into it. Went into it yesterday and there were 163 emails in the spam folder. Obviously spammers just create completely random lists of 'likely' email addresses and sent out an email. If the address exists, they won't get a failed delivery message, so they can add it to their database

TempestSabre

I doesn't matter if they get failed delivery message. They send billions of emails to automatically generated email address'es. The hit rate is very poor something like 1 or 2%. The big problem is not few emails you get in your inbox, though its annoying. But the bandwidth width and infrastructure resources that spam consumes. I don't understand why ISP's and the webmail providers like hotmail (gmail excluded because they are good) don't block it at source. Because the big difference between spam and regular mail is that theres millions of mail that are identical, or almost identical. Even a genuine mail shot won't hit the same numbers.

At work its a big problem, and its hard to find a decent spam filtering package that works well at the company level. They tend to catch too many flase positives and not enough of the positives. Its also requires a few people to manage it and the hardware associated with it.