327 spams in my gmail account
I’ve had a gmail account for a while, and I’ve often used it to send abuse complaints and also for other things. It’s been available publicly, so I’ve always gotten a few spams a day.
October 11, that changed. A deluge of spam, seemingly from the same source, started that day. Today I noticed the count in my spam folder was off. Normally about 50 spams would accumulate during month. Today I had 327.
The read messages are phishing messages, some of which I’ve reported as phishing.
I counted 251 messages with the same message body:
And today the body message has changed to Cialis soft tabs. 34 and counting.
Tell me, does anyone else receive that many copies of the same spam? Remember that this is ONE e-mail account, not a catch all. And the spam is addressed to that e-mail address.
October 15th, 2006 at 7:33 am
Just been sifting through my spam dumps, but haven’t seen an unusual spike here. Perhaps someone has signed you up for some ph4rm4 confirmed opt-out mailing lists
October 15th, 2006 at 1:25 pm
I’ve had a growing amount of spam over the last few weeks. My spike came on Friday with over 3200 554 rejections, 27 spams getting through to my inbox.
I’ve seen a lot of stock scams, too. One spammer has an ingenious way to get through my spam filters - s/he sends the link in a short, well composed email that looks like a message from someone basically saying “hey, check out this site I just found” and talking a little about it. If I knew the sender I’d have marked it as legit. Too bad the link took me to a Pharma site… *plonk*
October 15th, 2006 at 4:59 pm
The men’s health stuff is what I blogged about recently that’s overruning the tiki wiki’s.
October 17th, 2006 at 4:15 pm
I also saw an anusual spike starting from october 11. But my messages a different than yours - most are internal russian spam.
October 22nd, 2006 at 8:19 am
Yeah, I’ve seen a rise in my gmail account spam. Only mine isn’t advertised anywhere and I only use it to send private personal emails to a few of my friends.
I had about 20 from the past couple of days, all seem to be similar types of emails, offering me an assortment of drugs and help with organs I don’t have
October 26th, 2006 at 10:28 am
Yes i have noticed a marked increase in spam recently. Both email and guestbook/forum spam. I woke up yesterday and had 187 emails of which 183 were spam (thank you Spamihilator). Given that email spam and a lot of forum spam is done via botnets why don’t ISPs do more? When Code red was out ISPs were closing peoples accounts if they were infected and sending them an anti virus in the post so why not do the same here? All they have to do is keep an eye on how much SMTP traffic is coming from their users.
November 1st, 2006 at 4:55 am
Do you have a googlepages website? This indicates that your email exists. When Googlepages came out I tested it and now I have a website up which I can’t get rid of and I’m pretty sure spammers trawl the googlepages sites to get legit emails. Haven’t really looked into this much, but do you know if one can remove your Googlepages site?
Most of my spam is sent to me directly which is really irritating. I’m tempted to get a new gmail account, even though my current one is my name… Does anyone know a good way of getting out of a spammers database and as such slowly decreasing the received amount of spam?
November 6th, 2006 at 6:52 am
I have a couple of gmail’s and the one used for registering on sites and purchases is now getting multiple mass spam much the same as yours. The one that is rarely used and ironically used mostly on blackhat sites is pretty clean!
my money is on someone has got hold of someone elses data
November 15th, 2006 at 9:54 am
I just got 639 spams in my gmail account and this happened within last 2 hrs.
November 20th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
Hi guys…
anyone else on gmail having problems ?
gmail is fine on adsl, but on my 3g card i can surf net no problem, talk on google talk no problem, but i cannot reply to any gmail mail. also cannot compose and send attachments. can recieve mail fine.
thought it was my beta firefox im using so tried IE but still same problem.
sometimes can reply to a mail but not always, especially if there is an attachment in it…
but gmail is fine on adsl so i know its not gmail themselves. 2 friends have also complained about their gmail on 3g today..
November 29th, 2006 at 9:26 pm
I found an email in my gmail spam account with a reply from an email that I did not write. The email was sent to a an email address that I do not know and was sent under my email address. How can this happen and can I find out who sent the email reply.
Hope someone can help, thanks
December 13th, 2006 at 11:42 am
To add to the fire, I setup a personal gmail account not long ago which lay dormant for 3-4 months, by that time I’d accumulated over 150 spam messages, astonishing given that my name is not exactly common!
March 13th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
Ha! I opened a new gmail account and by the time I finished the setup of the Settings I’ve already had spam in my Inbox! [mind you I haven’t even used English word]
So much for Google “security”.
But, I have to admit it happened Only once!
On the other hand gmail was excellent “mailwasher” when the “Red Code”(?) spamsviruses hit in April 2005 and we were getting emails with virus attachements in the rate of over 200/hr or so… I was feeling like I am standing under the Niagara Falls of spams