Noticed just in the last few weeks a new type of spam where they send three different versions of the same topic. Anybody else getting that. I got this in just a half hour,
New type of spam showing up?
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Spam has been significant for me over the last several months. Gmail has caught almost all of it.
I simply check the box normally at the top of the email in box that says "delete all" and not even read any of it. I simply glance at the senders to make sure nothing ends up it there that shouldn't-it has happened once or twice where a legitimate sender ended up in my spam folder.
I never check my webmail spam folder, unless I was expecting an email that didn't make it through. Emails that DO make it through, no increase in spam lately, though it has been a bit odd that I've had a little increase in emails from companies I haven't deal with for months to years, whether as a prior customer or some freeware I had to register an email address to activate.
Yes it's been in my spam folder thank goodness, just odd about three in a row of related messages as if someone created a new distribution format for triple the annoyance.
My guess is that it's an A/B/C test to see which of those variants gets better responses from recipients and which might better evade spam filters.
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With hotmail, it catches legitimate emails for me and lets through the spam.
No spam filter is perfect and you might be missing important messages if you don't at least take a look at sender and subject before automatically deleting it all.I don't bother, just delete them all.
I do that.
I periodically take a look in the spam folder, if nothing jumps out at me, delete all.
Sometimes there's an uptick in what makes it past the filter. I just flag and delete. I don't attempt to think about it, I don't know how much of it is written by someone and how much is some sort of spam-bot doing someone's bidding.
Sometimes there's an uptick in what makes it past the filter. I just flag and delete. I don't attempt to think about it, I don't know how much of it is written by someone and how much is some sort of spam-bot doing someone's bidding.
Now that's a clever hypothesis. You might be on to something.
More like A/B/C/D/E/F/G/H test now. Especially like the Personal Butcher messages. Anybody else getting these variants?
I have spam from the same email address, just different topics. But not the same exact topic, probably is like yours, would lead to the same virus laden link. I wonder if most spam are just bots now, it's not like they try very had at scamming anymore, kind of lazy lately..
JHZR2
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I don’t look at spam. What bothers me more is unsubscribe links that claim I’ve been unsubscribed, but don’t seem to work… or worse, seem to give my address to others. This seems to be associated with monetary donations unfortunately.
Never click on an unsubscribe link (or really ANY link) in a spam email! The only thing that does is tell the sender that it reached a valid email box and you'll just get hammered with more spam, or worse.
Delete spam. Don't be curious and open it, just delete it.
I rarely actually open and look at the messages but you can't just automatically delete them without seeing what is there. I've gotten a few legit emails that erroneously ended up in the spam folder.
JHZR2
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I wasn’t clear. This is unsubscribe links from legit places. Of course I’d never click anything on a spam message.
