Spam coming into my gmail address has increased in the past few weeks from 5-8 per day to over 100 per day. Gmail's spam detection has been pretty good about routing it all to my spam folder.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2018, 08:44 Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2018, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > > > I have sent some stuff to network-ab...@google.com, but it is not a > > typical situation. The hacker sent to my friend's contact list a request > > to wire $. The return address was changed to hellerwalker53 at gmail dot > > com. The hacker also changed my friend's reply-to field to that same > > address. So for some time (maybe even now) that email address was > > functional. Since that email is a .gmail address I want google to shut it > > down. Maybe my message to them will work; maybe not. > > Denis, > > How unfortunate. > > > I may try to send something to the address to see if it bounces. If not, > > is there some service which will fill his inbox? > > I don't use gmail yet I wonder if there's a way for gmail users to > filter > spam at their end. If so, adding that address to a local filter would allow > it to be rejected or just discarded. > > Over the past couple of weeks the amount of spam headed my way has > picked > up considerably. Perhaps that's because summer vacation for spammers is > over. And much of that spam comes from a google IP address. > > I wonder if the percentage of e-mail traffic that's spam or malware is > still about the 80% reported a few years ago. > > Good luck resolving this annoying issue. > > Regards, > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
