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  • Google Spam Haven News: 15MB spam (mp4 video)

    From Andrzej Adam Filip@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 2 12:31:58 2022
    It makes hard+ to like Google IMHO.

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    A. Filip

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  • From Andreas Kohlbach@21:1/5 to Andrzej Adam Filip on Wed Feb 2 12:20:48 2022
    On Wed, 02 Feb 2022 12:31:58 +0000 (UTC), Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:

    It makes hard+ to like Google IMHO.

    What, 15 MB video embedded in a spam mail? Lucky you, I only get boring
    text spam. ;-)

    Some are quite "interesting" though. Lots of old email addresses showed
    up the first time in my spam (I collect those which are well known on a
    web search and at least six months old). Most are Gmail addresses since
    mugus found out Google doesn't care.

    Gmail is broken itself. When I updated a browser or use one I didn't used before I get a legit (!) login warning from Google, says there is nothing
    to do from my site. But with a warning on top of the mail, than Google
    couldn't verify it was really send (it was!) by Google. *LOL*

    Today a Nigerian scam ("Freelancer work, flexible hours...") via Seznam.cz including a Seznam.cz address, though slipped through. I reported them
    via Spamcop and a few days later their account is a smoking crater. Some
    abuse desks still work... :-)
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    Andreas

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  • From Andrzej Adam Filip@21:1/5 to Andreas Kohlbach on Wed Feb 2 17:39:25 2022
    Andreas Kohlbach <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Wed, 02 Feb 2022 12:31:58 +0000 (UTC), Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:

    It makes hard+ to like Google IMHO.

    What, 15 MB video embedded in a spam mail? Lucky you, I only get boring
    text spam. ;-)

    Some are quite "interesting" though. Lots of old email addresses showed
    up the first time in my spam (I collect those which are well known on a
    web search and at least six months old). Most are Gmail addresses since
    mugus found out Google doesn't care.

    Gmail is broken itself. When I updated a browser or use one I didn't used before I get a legit (!) login warning from Google, says there is nothing
    to do from my site. But with a warning on top of the mail, than Google couldn't verify it was really send (it was!) by Google. *LOL*

    Today a Nigerian scam ("Freelancer work, flexible hours...") via Seznam.cz including a Seznam.cz address, though slipped through. I reported them
    via Spamcop and a few days later their account is a smoking crater. Some abuse desks still work... :-)

    I receive a lot of "security alerts" from gmail about my own IMAP logins.
    It is far too many to treat Google "professionalism" seriously.
    IMHO it looks like a simple minded the least resistance path.

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    A. Filip

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  • From Andreas Kohlbach@21:1/5 to Andrzej Adam Filip on Thu Feb 3 02:45:32 2022
    On Wed, 02 Feb 2022 17:39:25 +0000 (UTC), Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:

    Andreas Kohlbach <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Wed, 02 Feb 2022 12:31:58 +0000 (UTC), Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:

    Gmail is broken itself. When I updated a browser or use one I didn't used
    before I get a legit (!) login warning from Google, says there is nothing
    to do from my site. But with a warning on top of the mail, than Google
    couldn't verify it was really send (it was!) by Google. *LOL*

    [...]

    I receive a lot of "security alerts" from gmail about my own IMAP logins.
    It is far too many to treat Google "professionalism" seriously.
    IMHO it looks like a simple minded the least resistance path.

    Yep. But the same with Microsoft, Yahoo (which is the same company IIRC)
    and probably many others. Can't take any serious these days. But I have accounts with them since decades. I could just use the server for my own
    domain and be my own boss, but too many people use my other email addresses.
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    Andreas

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  • From tjoen@21:1/5 to Andrzej Adam Filip on Thu Feb 3 19:13:13 2022
    On 2/2/22 18:39, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
    I receive a lot of "security alerts" from gmail about my own IMAP logins.
    It is far too many to treat Google "professionalism" seriously.
    IMHO it looks like a simple minded the least resistance path.

    They have nuked that repeat spammer with evey time a new gmail address
    now completely.
    My library had once sent me unsolicited promotional email.
    I marked it a spam and because more people did it all their mail
    now end in spamfolfers >:-)

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