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For the last month or so, I've been watching GMail fight a losing battle in my inbox against a lone spammer using Outlook.com accounts to push a Yeti Cooler fro
by civilized 4y ago
For the last month or so, I've been watching GMail fight a losing battle in my inbox against a lone spammer using Outlook.com accounts to push a Yeti Cooler from Dick's Sporting Goods.
Every time they think they've got the bastard, he changes Goods to G00ds, or changes the subject line to "Confirmation Email", and it slips through again and hits my Primary, easy as pie. This happens at least a couple times a week.
All the cheesy tricks we thought stopped working 20 years ago are back in play for this one intrepid spammer. GMail just can't seem to stop itself from completely trusting just about any email from Outlook.com.
Now I'm wondering why more people haven't figured this out.
- memcg 4y agoSee my comment above. For me, all of the Yeti images are hosted by Caring Bridge on AWS servers. Caring Bridge seems like a nice company, but they are unable to stop the spammer from abusing their free hosting. From 10/18 - π πππ ππ°π±π±π¦π³ π20 ππ°π°ππ¦π³ - π π°πΆπ³ π°π³π₯π¦π³ π©π’π΄ π΄π©πͺπ±π±π¦π₯!## https://ns(x)hn/WxXqK https://ns(x)hn/WxXqK which redirects to https://yuzuapples(x)com/0/0/0/ecf39df03591d83ed90be8d40d962971 https://yuzuapples(x)com/0/0/0/ecf39df03591d83ed90be8d40d962...