wtfs with all this spam? (2 Viewers)

[breaking]

ok i just checked my gmail then to find out i have had this constant flow of spam into my inbox since about 10am today! and its in inbox, not spam, and usually gmail detects allll spam
has anyone else had this problem?

(btw why are images turned off in this forum?)

 

[MedNez]

Looks like some sort of news site or forum subscription ?

Have you signed up for anything recently? Or accidentally subscribed yourself to something?

It's strange that it'd occur in this magnitude straight away. Perhaps you should open one and see what it's linking to, and then google it?

 

[breaking]

nah i havent signed up for anything recently...... especially not anything in german, i can't even read it haha
i opened up a couple..... they all just contain a link
like this:

meh, maybe it's time to go back to hotmail

 

[MedNez]

Looks like mass gmail spam (which you can create filters to move to different folders; although that seems to just move the problem) - or perhaps someone used your address to sign you up for stuff.

*shrugs*

Back to hotmail perhaps - or just make a new gmail with a more unique address.

 

[Rafy]

Thats the second report of that happening ive seen today

 

[tempco]

jeez thats a hell of a lot of spam. i thought i had spam problems... at least my spam stays in the spam folder. :s

 

[breaking]

haha i know
the first one arrived just after 10 and yeah..... still getting them now

 

[Rafy]

See.
http://msghelp.net/showthread.php?tid=44733

 

[tempco]

maybe an email bomb? (do those still happen these days?)

 

[SashatheMan]

i see no penis enlargent pill emails, hence u havent seen the real spam

 

[Rafy]

yeah gmail owns.

 

[Rafy]

I have 3 german spam messages in my spam section.

SO yeah definately looks like a massive spam attack from the germans!

 

[tempco]

the germans forgot about me. all i have is:

Tracy Nora - Two hundred and thirty thousand dollars for only $320/month.

o______O

 

[ism]

I got 245 spam emails today alone.

Some of them are from usyd adresses, but they are all in german.

What the fuck?

 

[iamsickofyear12]

Email Spam is really random. I used to get it all the time on my hotmail so I made a new email. I've had this email for a long time, 3 years maybe and I have signed up to a huge amount of random crap and still no spam.

 

[ism]

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,63806,00.html

 

[tempco]

so it was a political statement? hey... not too bad.

 

[Scanorama]

I got 3 German spams in my Gmail inbox folder, another 2 went into the Spam folder. I rarely encounter spams in Gmail since i got it last year, including these 5, the total spams i recevied in Gmail are only 10. Compare to 15 spams each day on Hotmail.

One of the German message:

From - Sun May 15 23:23:20 2005
X-Account-Key: account4
X-UIDL: GmailId103df72a444ed4e9
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
X-Gmail-Received: a8861d3525086788b446ffa57996e44a07254120
Received: by 10.38.101.28 with SMTP id y28cs21867rnb;
Sun, 15 May 2005 01:22:41 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.38.97.15 with SMTP id u15mr1698552rnb;
Sun, 15 May 2005 01:22:41 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <abercrombie@jenolancaves.org.au>
Received: from gqswr.au (rivax12-a071.dialup.optusnet.com.au [198.142.70.71])
by mx.gmail.com with SMTP id i1si130911rne.2005.05.15.01.22.37;
Sun, 15 May 2005 01:22:41 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: neutral (gmail.com: 198.142.70.71 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of abercrombie@jenolancaves.org.au)
From: abercrombie@jenolancaves.org.au
To: private@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 08:21:22 GMT
Subject: Massenhafter Steuerbetrug durch auslaendische Arbeitnehmer
Importance: Normal
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Message-ID: <8f8c7b55736008ff98b@jenolancaves.org.au>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Lese selbst:
http://www.rp-online.de/public/article/nachrichten/wirtschaft/finanzen/deutschland/85815

 

[MedNez]

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Breaking/Sober-worm-delivers-Teutonic-spam/2005/05/16/1116095895731.html

^ Article on cause of the spam.

 

[-Swifty-]

lol........pwned