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I can't stand it. No matter how many times I hit SPAM to the Viagra email that come in... they never go to SPAM (actually, I don't know that - I don't look at the SPAM folder. I do know that more Viagra emails are still coming to my Inbox). Why isn't GMail's SPAM filtering stopping this?
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The simple answer is because the spam e-mailers are using a technique that GMail's filters haven't caught up with. As to what that technique is I don't know. By flagging the e-mails as spam you're helping to train the algorithms and present new examples to the developers. Eventually the filters will catch up and then the spammers will try something else. So don't stop reporting them. It's a never ending arms race between the two sides, and as long as someone somewhere responds to the e-mail it's worth the spammers investing time and money in trying to outwit the spam filters. Only when no one responds to these e-mails will they stop - but then they'll be trying some other way of separating you from your money. |
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Unfortunately there are many techniques that someone can use to bypass the anti-spam filters. Most recently I have noticed the use a "text body" which looks innocent, but is replaced by a graphic with the ad. Most of the ones I have seen use a graphic which is slightly manipulated so that each version of it has a different byte signature which helps prevent matching. The text is artfully crafted so that no two messages are exactly alike...many appear to be "scraped" from various web pages or blogs on the web. It will take pattern recognition software to detect the image by its characteristics. I'm sure there would be some false positives, and I'm also sure that this will cause an additional delay in the mail delivery process as EVERY email with an image attachment would have to be analyzed. |
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these are also being sent to me, but they go into spam... I believe it is a new form of malware. |
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I am getting buried in these as well, and I too initially wondered why something so blantantly obvious as Approved Viagra Store or similar passed the spam filters on a consistent basis! AND THE ANSWER IS ... While it LOOKS like that is where it is coming from (the name) if you hover over it, I'll bet you'll find that the actual address it is coming from is YOURS !! Apparently with Thunderbird at least, it looks at the senders address and not the senders NAME. I solved most of this by setting up a filter that puts all email sent by me into the junk mail folder. This actually worked extremely well as I rarely send myself mail. However I am just now running into a problem having set up email forwarding from one of my domain names. I can't get it to look at the email NAME rather than the address. -Sigh- So while I may have addressed YOUR problem, I wish I could fix MINE! |
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Set up a filter in Gmail to catch messages with "Viagra" in the subject line, skip the inbox, and go directly to spam. By the way, I noticed an uptick in spam when I recently changed the email I use on Faceboook (and nowhere else), so I try to filter that as well. |
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