Spammers are getting smarter

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  1. #1
    You been getting the "Hey bud" or "Hey bro" emails!? The bastards! just want you to click :D
     
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  2. ash1

    ash1 Active Member

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    yea and then its some person from africa asking for 9000$ cuz there mother or wife or husband died
     
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    Smyrl Tomato Republic Staff

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    When I see hiya, or hay, I know spam. My friends do not speak like that. If I don't know sender or if title does not sound highly meaningful to me I immediately hit report as spam and never open.
     
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    DomainMagnate Illustrious Member

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    i just use gmail hehe
     
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    windows live mail in windows vista has a pretty decent spam filter. I've been using that for a few weeks with good results.
     
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    yea well those spammers are getting smarter but the smarter ones are the ones who are compliant.
     
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    With filters catching more and more of their crap, they're not getting smarter, they're getting more desperate ... most reputable mail services are still capturing them as spam.
     
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    farooqaaa Well-Known Member

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    Gmail Filter is catching more spam i think, i get about 2/4 spams perday. I got 3 spams today!
     
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    Just be more careful where you give out your email address. Perfect spam stopper.
     
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  10. DomainMagnate

    DomainMagnate Illustrious Member

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    i have one gmail address that i used to submit articles to article directories..

    so I haven't checked it for months.. and today i logged in and found 50K messages!

    so during the following 3 weeks I'll be reading them :eek:
     
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  11. Alis

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    woot! omg :eek:

    have nice reading your mail book then :p
     
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    Not at all, you can get on spam mail lists simply by sending email out to someone who then gets their computer compromised. This is easy to do when you mail a lot of people.
     
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    I use gmail and usually I don't see any spam.

    But yesterday i got this really weird mail

    With the subject: "Re:Hello Mate"

    Now who wouldn't have read it. I thought it was a reply from someone to my own mail. It turned out to be a viagra :eek: selling company's mail though :eek:
     
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