Gmail spam catastrophe

[TimRogers]

I haven't had any gmail spam!

[jamend]

Does anyone else get the Hare Krishna/gouranga cult ones? They are creeping me out a little bit... other than that, I get about 5 "s0ftware" and about one each of PayPal scamming, bank account phishing, and pills per day (and a 411 if I'm lucky since they make good reads :)).

[Steve Lampkins]

Bulk brute-force spamming has meant about 50 spam mails for me. I have never given my mail address to ANYONE - I don't even use it. I don't care though, because: it goes in Spam folder, Gmail is free, Gmail is beta.

To the guy who is 'furious' about his girlfriend's account getting a little spam: you need to find more worthy things to get annoyed by.

[mswarts]

I think getting angry at this kind of abuse is justified. I've never had SPAM and here I am getting my ass kicked by it. It's a remarkably efficient attack and the worst part of all is the vendors of this nonsense probably profit from it! (not to mention they're selling dodgy products)

I hope Google guns them down with an algorithm or something. ;)

[amoeba]

I just hate it because Gmail makes my Spam folder bold so I notice it. If they didn't make it bold when there's new spam I wouldn't mind.

/me writes a userContent.css to modify that :p

[Dazzla Veteran]

Same here, I've never had spam before, now this one of my pricate emails has regular spam, the same as what everyone else is receiving.

[amoeba]

If you are tired of seeing your Spam folder and would rather not have it there, follow these instructions:

Download/Install URIid by Chris Neale so you can create URI-specific userContent mods.

Create a file called userContent.css in your chrome folder. This is most often here in C:\Documents and Settings\{USER}\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\{PROFILE NAME}\chrome. You may already have one.

Add this line to userContent.css:

body#gmail-google-com #ds_spam { display: none !important; }

What is this doing?

All that is going on here is hiding your Spam folder in Gmail. It's not stopping spam from coming in. It's actually making a SPAN tag by the name of <span class="lk" id="ds_spam"> cease to show up on page load. display: none is just specifying how to display the object (in this case, don't display the object).

Hope that helps someone!

[ember]

I too had been very careful with my gmail add and started to receive spam recently, with the same thing everyone else had been getting :( just thank God it doesnt end up in my Inbox folder

[gadean]

I've been getting a lot of spam at my gmail account too. I've been very careful not to hand out my address to anyone but friends.. but I guess that wasn't about to stop anyone. Arg, it's getting worse every day with no end in sight.

[+Random Stranger Subscriber¹]

i get 140 spam in last week. i forward 2 other email addresses to my gmail - mainly to filter spam out. however every 2-3 days a spam gets into inbox. and whats worth i had to fish out legitimate emails from spam folder on more then one occasion.

still a bit improvement over my previos email with no spam filtering.

i am thinking of forwarding another email with gets 10-20 spam email per day to my gmail and see how it will hold up.

[CloudEngineer]

1 spam message since i've had gmail.. and that wasnt ment to be in there ;) the new newsletter that neowin offers now lol

[Chicane-UK Veteran]

Holy cow. I'm not quite getting that amount of spam, but I seem to get about 5 messages per day to my GMail account.

I just wish all spammers would get lost.. I hate them and I hate spam. Its my biggest hate about the internet. People who dont want spam are never going to buy anything from it, so why the hell do they continue to spam us? ARRRRGGGGHHHH.....

[Robbobloke]

Yeah I'm getting 3 or 4 spam a day now on my gmail account. All regarding pirate software. :| Never used to have any a few weeks ago.

[Caboose447]

I've been getting spam in my gmail spam account too... I've tried clicking on the unsubscribe and unsubscribing but it doesn't work. I'm still getting some SPAM in my account :cry: Thats what my hotmail account is for! Spam! :laugh:

EDIT: Is there anyway to setup a filter to automatically delete any e-mail about pirated software? :huh:

[The Nonentity]

I've tried clicking on the unsubscribe and unsubscribing but it doesn't work.

585094905[/snapback]

You sir, are an idiot. You deserve to get spam.

[Robbobloke]

I've been getting spam in my gmail spam account too... I've tried clicking on the unsubscribe and unsubscribing but it doesn't work. I'm still getting some SPAM in my account :cry: Thats what my hotmail account is for! Spam!  :laugh:

EDIT: Is there anyway to setup a filter to automatically delete any e-mail about pirated software?  :huh:

585094905[/snapback]

By the way, never click on unsubscribe in spam emails. They are bogus. That just confirms that your email exists = more spam!

[edbro]

I don't know what you all are complaining about. Because of all this, I got my wife a $5,000 Rolex for only $79, I got a $500 copy of Office for only $40, and my "member" hasn't been limp for 2 weeks now! As if that wasn't enough, there is a really nice gentleman in Nigeria that is sending me millions of dollars soon.

[Caboose447]

I don't know what you all are complaining about. Because of all this, I got my wife a $5,000 Rolex for only $79, I got a $500 copy of Office for only $40, and my "member" hasn't been limp for 2 weeks now!

585094981[/snapback]

LMAO :laugh: Your rolex is bogus, the copy of Office is pirated, and your non-limp member will fall off in a month! LOL

Those are my predictions! :ninja: Well, for your member anyway! :rofl:

[Laserman]

OK, figure this security issue out. I just opened a gmail account and it was compromised to spammers immediately. I bought a gmeil invite on eBay and clicked on it. The Account opening was a normal as you would expect.

Several minutes after opening it I looked at

the sent mail folder. There was a sent email in it that was sent from

my name to my name. It was announcing my new gmail account. When I put

the cursor over my name in the To: field, it does not show my email

address, it shows an email address I never heard of

([email protected]). This domain is registered to someone in

Singapore.

This email was sent automatically when I opened my gmail account

through an invitation.

Has anyone else experienced this?

My account seems to have been compromised when I opened it. I sent an

email to google describing this problem and will not touch this account

until I understand why this happened.

Be careful, the gmail service seems to have been hacked somehow

[amoeba]

OMG YES GMAIL WAS HAXORED

No... Spam is rampant. Live with it. I bet the username you have is guessable. Mine's kinda not and kinda is and I get very little spam in comparison to most of the repliers here.

[Guest FaX]

5 a day in gmail none in hotmail

[fourthe]

Yea I get the same messages everyday in 2 of my email accounts.

[insurektion]

I have never gotten spam before because I am prudent with my email addresses.  As a result, the 5 pieces of spam that have fallen into my gmail Spam folder are mind-boggling.

The messages are all from different addresses:

Sammy Tobin <[email protected]> offers pirated software

Winnie Richey <[email protected]> offers pirated software

Carolyn Salas <[email protected]> offers pirated software

Mel Cain <[email protected]> offers a Rolex

Rupert Morris <[email protected]> offers a Rolex

The messages always get close, but never quite, to my email address.  They'll add a suffix like the following to my username part of my email address:

[email protected]

[email protected]

Thanks in advance for anyone who can determine how these spammers got my address, how these messages are even getting to me with the wrong address, or how I can get it to stop.

585035649[/snapback]

I didnt bother reading this thread so forgive me if this has been posted but mostly likely you have a piece of Spyware that looks for any email adress type or appearong on the system which adds you to a huge listing of people. I got those same ads too.

[insurektion]

I love some of these names:

[oddcrap]

If you add your contact to your contacts list, then you shouldn't get spam?