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Thread ID: 150468	2022-02-10 05:03:00	Junk emails	Neil F (14248)	Press F1

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1484230	2022-02-10 05:03:00	Maybe I am missing something. A lot of rubbish comes through on my phone and fortunately goes to Junk box which I immediately delete all. e.g. "I love to have sex in my car" "contact ,me re payment due" Such posts are so blatantly ludicrous that i cannot understand why senders post them What are they hoping to achieve? Can someone please enlighten me? thanks	Neil F (14248)
1484231	2022-02-10 05:30:00	Common thing is the spam is sent out, if anyone either responds or "unsubscribes" to something they never did in the1st place, it confirms a active email = a truck load more crap.	wainuitech (129)
1484232	2022-02-10 06:19:00	I've heard that the spam and scams are written badly deliberately, so they catch out only the people who are genuinely gullible enough to fall for it. And yes, some spam also has tracking images embedded so they know if you've opened it, etc, so they can send you more.	Agent_24 (57)
1484233	2022-02-10 19:51:00	If the the scammer sends a Million spam emails, and gets 1 person to click the link & infect the PC or sign up for a scam service , thats worth it for them . 1 crypto infection & 1 ransom payment of $10,000 (or even $1M+) to get the data back, thats a big payday for some 3rd world scammer . Spam is all about making money . One of my customers was stupid enough put email addresses with staff names & staff job descriptions on their website (incl staff accounting person) . So of course the scammers used that info to start sending out fake invoices , pretending to be that company . Some companies will just pay invoices without checking they are for authorised work/services .	1101 (13337)
1484234	2022-02-10 20:08:00	Money. In a variety of ways, the ultimate aim is to make money. Use gmail. Gmail has the best spam filter I've come across......feed it some examples (Mark as spam) and gmail quietly shoves it all into the spam folder from then on and you never see it (unless you login to the web server and actually go look).	piroska (17583)
1484235	2022-02-11 01:13:00	X2 gmail does a fantastic job. like the way they scrub all those sh!te emails after a certain no of days. outlook are hopeless. And once they get all those streaming satellites out in space , woohoo for all the scammers!!. They will have a picnic. lurking.	Lurking (218)
1484236	2022-02-11 03:12:00	Regarding Junk / Spam filters. The scammers know how to avoid some of them. Some are over protective and capture legit emails for what seems like no reason. MANY businesses have this problem -- Legit Emails sent marked as spam. Own example is once I was in email contact with the area manager of Spark in Wellington sorting out a connection problem, we sent/received several mails then all of a sudden he didn't answer a email that he requested more details regarding my client. I called him the following day and he said he didn't get my reply which he thought quite weird. He checked his spam folder and All I heard was OH F***K --- There's over 2 dozen mails he's been waiting for :angry. He then looked at my mails and said there's NOTHING that he can see as to why they all of a sudden triggered the spam filter, same with several others. So while xtra and Gmail do catch some they can also be over protective a LOT of the times. This is why I like Mailwasher -- it lets you see Everything including spam, and you select whether to let them through or blacklist mails before even arriving at your mail box. In fact just had two today, both marked as spam, BUT they are actually legit mails sent from gmail (I know the people and knew they were sending documents), so marked them as friends and they will never be stopped in the future.	wainuitech (129)
1484237	2022-02-11 04:20:00	The Xtramail spam filter these days is absolute garbage. The Brightmail one they used for a while years ago (when they still hosted Xtramail themselves) was amazing, but this one?... It constantly trashes newsletters and updates from certain sites that I have marked as NOT SPAM for months on end, yet allows totally obvious spam through about 50% of the time. Even the previous incarnation based on Yahoo! was better, and that was still pretty hopeless at filtering spam properly.	Agent_24 (57)
1484238	2022-02-25 18:50:00	So while Gmail do catch some they can also be over protective a LOT of the times. . Never had an issue. And in case you do want to check, just login, look in spam and mark as NOT Spam, same as you would if you wanted it to flag one...Mark As Spam.... simple.	piroska (17583)
1484239	2022-02-25 20:33:00	Never had an issue. And in case you do want to check, just login, look in spam and mark as NOT Spam, same as you would if you wanted it to flag one...Mark As Spam.... simple. Trouble with that MANY ordinary people dont know they can do that or more to the point have no reason to even look, even if they knew how. OFTEN I have to call people who have gmail accounts when the Eset renewal reminders are sent out as gmail marks them as spam, strange thing is only some are marked as spam, others that have the exact same message (and sender) only difference is the persons own Licence details and are not stopped - gmail and outlook.com are so inconsistent. This is either from myself or the automatic mails eset send out.	wainuitech (129)
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