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Remember how I said I love GMail.com primarily because of the way it handles spam? Well, it is still doing the job.
I was checking my spam folder just now, as I find one or two messages a week that shouldn't be in there.
Looks like the latest craze is to give you fake, absurd news headlines to make you open the email.
The most recent example has the topic "Britney in coma, feared dead" and GMail shows the first line as being "Freak snowstorm in Calfornia forces shut down of schools" and then gives a link.
Another bears the topic "US Troops held hostage in Afghan" with the first line of the body saying "japanese Prime Minister says World War II never happened".
Of course, if someone is in a coma, then they are alive, no reason to fear that they are dead. Then again, perhaps only those in a coma would be foolish enough to open those emails. :LOL: I guess they'll do about anything to get you to open an email. I have no idea whether the email contains a trojan, tracking cookie/image or is just another ad for ED pills.
Speaking of, let's see the totals for today's spam (based on the first line of the message and the topic as shown by GMail.)
ED Pills: 12
Non ED pharmaceuticals: 9
Fake headlines: 4
Sales: 3
Porn sites: 2
Free Software: 2
Money making: 1
Fake designer watches: 1
That's 34 spam messages caught and filter by Gmail in less than 16 hours on just one of my accounts.
I was checking my spam folder just now, as I find one or two messages a week that shouldn't be in there.
Looks like the latest craze is to give you fake, absurd news headlines to make you open the email.
The most recent example has the topic "Britney in coma, feared dead" and GMail shows the first line as being "Freak snowstorm in Calfornia forces shut down of schools" and then gives a link.
Another bears the topic "US Troops held hostage in Afghan" with the first line of the body saying "japanese Prime Minister says World War II never happened".
Of course, if someone is in a coma, then they are alive, no reason to fear that they are dead. Then again, perhaps only those in a coma would be foolish enough to open those emails. :LOL: I guess they'll do about anything to get you to open an email. I have no idea whether the email contains a trojan, tracking cookie/image or is just another ad for ED pills.
Speaking of, let's see the totals for today's spam (based on the first line of the message and the topic as shown by GMail.)
ED Pills: 12
Non ED pharmaceuticals: 9
Fake headlines: 4
Sales: 3
Porn sites: 2
Free Software: 2
Money making: 1
Fake designer watches: 1
That's 34 spam messages caught and filter by Gmail in less than 16 hours on just one of my accounts.
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