Gmail spam catastrophe

[Steve Lampkins]

Yeah, nobody has my G-mail address, but I get spaqm which include addresses SIMILAR to my username which is not a dictionary word. Those damed spammers will stop at nothing. They are kusip?it?.

[Liquid]

My GMail days are over now. I just cant live with spam and GMail is prone to I get tons a day, my spam box is filled and some passes the filter.

[dmp3]

Same here Liquid. I love Gmail, and I want something better, but I have no other choice besides Gmail since it's the best thing I available for me right now.

I even did a little tested. I signed myself up for a second Gmail account a long time ago.

I never used it, not once. I never logged into it or anything. I then logged into it to see what? SPAM.

I don't understand how.

[TmasterT]

jsut remember, NEVER REPLY TO ANY SPAM EVER

that way, if you do reply, they know you are there, and wil spam you again

[xendrome]

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[breakaway1029]

I'm not sure if this holds true anymore, but when I had an email address with all letters, say "breakaway", I got a ton of spam. Since I changed it to "br3akaway", though, I have gotten no spam at all. I gave out both email addresses to the same exact people. Weird, huh.

[Slimy]

i got one today 2

:cry: WHY GMAIL WHY :cry:

damn, nothing lasts forever

[rustyPixel]

I received 4 spam messages today in my gmail account, first time ever!

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Five here...and like you, for the first time ever. :blink:

[santidog]

Heh... one minute after creating my gmail account, in comes the spam.... oh well.

[Caledai]

every email service will be targeted. The common ones, yahoo hotmail gmail are prone to brute force due to the large numbers of users.

the prob with gmail is that it allows close matches to a username through.

But where would you rather the spam.

Blocked completly - even email it considers spam but isn't, or in the spam folder which can be reviewed.

[mswarts]

Here's the ugliest pic ever... :x

[insanekiwi]

i dont get any spam. stop givign out your emai ladress then and if it's in your spam folder i wouldnt give a dime.

[Mx]

I don't get much email spam, one of two a day. Nothing too bad.

[mswarts]

I'm not giving my email address out. As you can see, the emails are all from the same vendor (though by surprisingly unique names). I imagine it is from a source that is bruting about in a really evil way. None of the emails are even addressed to me. As you pointed out, however, Gmail tosses spam right where it belongs - so my beef is not with Google.

My beef is with :spam:

[Maxious]

Five here...and like you, for the first time ever.  :blink:

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it appears to be that they are randomly generating [email protected] and then when the email doesn't bounce you're written in their database :angry:

five... all the same dodgy kinds of topics :p

[nomis_nehc]

my gf and i are the only ones that know her email address, and she got spam in her account too. i am pretty furious about it.

[the_snitch]

im recieving about 5 pirated software emails a day :angry:

I went to the site to unsubscribe, but i know thats generally a BAD idea. But i just couldn't take it anymore.

At least its getting filtered correctly

[bfoos]

I'm getting between 2 and 5 a day. The same pirated software and pharmaceuticals. I have yet to see a rolex offered though. :no:

[tickbabies]

just checked mine and had about 9 all the same. nasty ish.

[tibi108]

Gmail does NOT have a system to deliver emails to the nearest matching email address.

The spammers put an address in the "To" field (because you have to), and then put as many email address combinations as they can manage into the "Bcc" field. This way they save on their outgoing bandwidth as they only have to send out 1 email for every 20-50 odd people.

It's shotgun targetting... if you email every variation possible, you're bound to hit a few people.

[Peter McGrath]

Here's the ugliest pic ever...?:xx

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Not as ugly as this:))

I think I had over 12,000 spam emails before gmail instituted the 30 day deletion policy on spam

[xpablo]

I was getting spam with pirated software offers and Viagra on Gmail.

[leesmithg]

:yes: Here we go, well all bar one ended up in spam folder.

Mr Andrew Stewart is a popular one I have recieved dealing in the speil about his poor African ass being broke but if I donate some monies I will get it back big time when he gets his family wealth back.

Ohh yes, adobe, macromedia, xp, microsoft, all the big players in the most of most premium software at rock bottom prices also.

Rolex watches also dirt cheap, well they mostly came from earthlink suffix's.

That's 35 from 1 account and 1 from another.

I don't bother bouncing them just delete them.

[Colin-uk Veteran]

ive only ever gotten spam to my domain emails, but that was because all unrouted mail was set to go to my inbox... now it just gets deleted before it reaches my inbox :)

never had any spam in my gmail either :D :p

[Timmah Veteran]

There is a definate pattern forming. I recently started receiving spam. I have never, ever give my email address out to anything suspicious.

Im getting the "Rolex Watches", "Fountains of youth" and "Fly with Samsung" spam.

The unsubscribe links do NOTHING, this is a f**king **** take.

Spammers should be locked up for a minimum of 5 years for all the havoc and annoyance they cause.