Specifically, I’d like to filter by character set – anythink in russian or chinese (read: anything illegible for me) needs to silently go into the spam folder.
In the last few weeks, I have about 10 russian spam comments, and I’ve had it.
Posts Tagged: spam
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Jul 08
Cisco automatically spamming Twitter?
This is strange: 5 minutes ago i twittered this:
” Installed new Cisco 5-port mini switch – connection to my Zyxel NSA-220 is a LOT faster now”
A minute later, I receive this email:
“Cisco IT (ciscoit) is now following your updates on Twitter.
Check out Cisco IT’s profile here:
You tell me that’s not a bot? Can anybody else try to verify this (just tweet something with “cisco” in the text).
(Cool – that post made Network World. Still not entirely sure what to think of this. Sure, the “new follower” is not spamming me with messages, but the technique used is exactly that of other Twitter spammers: follow me to make me look at their page.)
7
Jun 07
New spam wave
A new wave of spam emails has been coming through my GMail (GAFYD) spam filter recently:
“der mineralbusiness entwickelt sich schnell!
sehen sie es am donnerstag 7. juni!entreprise: harri expl inc
letzt. schlu?k: 0.45
5-t.ag prog.: 1.80k,?rzel: e f d
w-k,n : a 0 h 0 5 qverlieren sie keine moglichkeit
kau-fen vor es sehr spat wird300-400 Interessen in folgenden 5t
fugen sie efd in ihre liste am
donnerstag 7. juni!Das Schaf, das du willst, steckt da drin. So, du Samana, sind.
Tun, aber sagen und lehren kann man sie nicht. Die seine ist.
Obwohl. Der Geograph ist zu wichtig, um herumzustreunen.
Durst mehr fXhlte. Aber in meiner Herrscherweisheit.”
They seem to frame their distorted messages with literature which they automatically translate. I’m not sure what’s more annoying – the fact that they get through, or the fact that there must be people who make the effort to decipher that crap and act upon it on the stock markets. Maybe the stock market should introduce maturity checks…
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Aug 06
Can somebody please cut off China from the Internet…?
This is what most of my unread email looks like nowadays. I don’t even care if it’s spam or something really interesting, my inability to read chinese doesn’t allow me to judge what.
I just don’t want to see it. Ever.
You know, it’s just no use. So, dear Google: would you please allow me to define a blacklist of stuff I want to be considered spam from the beginning? Like, everything that comes in a character set I can’t identify?
Thank you.
2
Aug 06
GMail adds “delete all spam” button
FINALLY.
This will probably free Petabytes on Google’s hard drives ;)
16
Jun 06
GMail SPAM attack
I don’t know if this is just me, but recently I’ve experienced a HUGE amount of SPAM emails coming through on GMail.
Very many of them are chinese, so I’m wondering if there’s a way to block all incoming email containing chinese characters?
In any case – Google’s filtering system sure could need some improvements…
14
Feb 06
Dear GMail team,
I have already mentioned how much I like your service, especially the spam filter.
Now, after quite a few months and a constant rate of 10000 spam mails per 30 days: would you PLEASE allow me to have a personal kill file to put in subjects like “small cap” and “penny stocks”?
I bet those two expressions alone would cut down my storage needs by 10 percent.
