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FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account
- handsometong 6mo ago[dead]
- SilverElfin 6mo agoGood luck. These big tech companies have no incentive to care about support or really anything that isn’t tied directly to making money. And unless you have a friend there, Google staff have no incentive either. Solving this won’t help with their promotions.
- rockskon 6mo agoCynicism helps no one.
- rockskon 6mo agoI will double down on this. Cynicism is the refuge of the ignorant that wishes to take comfort in their helplessness. It isn't helpful.
- ranger_danger 6mo agoI think there are lots of people that will see this story that either work at google or know someone who does, and I bet it will lead to their issue getting fixed. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
- throwaway27448 6mo agoIt would help if they provided literally any way for a squeaky wheel to squeak at them aside from squeaking at the employees with a modicum of dignity (if they still exist)
- snickerbockers 6mo agoBased on how much zendesk spam there is i doubt it.
- jwr 6mo ago> Google staff have no incentive either. Solving this won’t help with their promotions. I don't think people appreciate that this is really the key observation here. In large institutions, for anything significant to happen, there have to be incentives and alternatives, and these are set by management. Management in turn usually cares about their incentives, and the company overall mostly cares about the bottom line and the financial reports. As a result, this is unlikely to get addressed, unless there is significant pressure, like media coverage, people mass-resigning from Gmail, or major email servers blocking Google. But none of these are likely to happen.
- bawolff 6mo agoWell yes, you get what you pay for and if you are on the free plan don't expect much. I dont think this is limited to big tech.
- noobermin 6mo agoIt honestly is a bit dissapointing that most of the internet's "infrastructure" is tied up in large corporations that just get money for free by being the only provider and face little to no backlash (because of their monopoly) when they neglect things like basic customer service.
- unmole 6mo ago> get money for free How do they get money for free? What is stopping everyone else from doing the same?
- ranger_danger 6mo agoAdvertising and eyeballs, I'd assume
- noobermin 6mo agoA monopoly. It's hard for "everyone else" to develop a monopoly today, to suggest otherwise is a ridiculous assertion.
- protocolture 6mo agoThey aren't a monopoly, and especially not a monopoly on emails. How did we get to the point where there can be 12 services, but the one with lots of customers is a "Monopoly". Its a complete destruction of the word. They aren't killing their competitors, nor making it illegal to compete. Yeah its harder in the current era to run your own mail server, for a variety of reasons involving spam. But can we just cut the shit on calling literally every company with more than 100 employees a Monopoly?
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- mindslight 6mo agoPostel's law means you can just mentally replace "monopoly" with "anticompetitive restraint of trade" and go on to address the substantive point.
- throwuxiytayq 6mo agoMaybe they should try getting a paid Google Workspace subscription /s
- tjpnz 6mo agoThis is a plausible explanation based on the amount of fraud tolerated in other parts of their business. But it's probably going to cost you more than one Workspace subscription.
- thayne 6mo agoHaving a workspace subscription still doesn't get you a human to talk to.
- connorgurney 6mo agoIt most certainly does in the UK.
- TheChaplain 6mo agoIt seems weird that Google wouldn't have some kind of observability alert on outgoing email. 10k emails per week is a lot.
- compounding_it 6mo agoWhat if someone (Google) used Google suite to send 10k emails to fire people. Wouldn’t that be considered normal for the server for a day let alone a week. Yes I know I could have come up with a better example.
- gambiting 6mo agoThose would be internal so I'm not sure they'd even count against your quota.
- compounding_it 6mo agoThe example was given to say you could be a gsuite customer and have 10k emails a week be very normal. Something that wouldn’t trigger any alarms unless set. The alarms would probably be set on a curve. Something unusual would be far off the curve.
- blitzar 6mo agoye olde corporate reply to all bomb .. no more emails this week everyone, we have used up our quota
- superfrank 6mo agoI'm not sure it actually is. Free Gmail is limited to 500 emails a day, but Workspace accounts are allowed up to 2000, so this this spammer has to be using a Workspace account. I've worked at a start up where the marketing team just had a `marketing@startup.com` email that was just like any other email in Google Workspace and used that for all marketing communications. Eventually they bumped up against that limit and a couple of engineers had to help them troubleshoot and there were enough blog and stack overflow posts at the time about hitting the limit to make make me think what they were doing wasn't uncommon. When you consider the scale of Gmail and that this is almost certainly a Workspace account so they're mixed in with business customers, I'm not sure how much of an anomaly 10k emails a week actually is.
- tjpnz 6mo agoSpammer must be a whale spending untold amounts on other Google services.
- urban_winter 6mo agoGoogle suspend email accounts that get lots of spam reports. It happens a couple of times a year for salespeople in my company who use Gmass (a bulk email sending tool). I mention it only as a useful data point, and in the absence of anyone else on the thread mentioning that Google have robust email abuse monitoring.
- cpncrunch 6mo agoSo, just to clarify, the salespeople are spamming cold addresses, or are they opted in or existing customers?
- bdavbdav 6mo agoWas going to say there’s a good reason lots of people use services like mailchimp now. You’re not sensibly managing it yourself with the current (very sensible) regulations in the US / EU, nor do you want to be sending from your own domain en masse.
- cpncrunch 6mo agoMailchimp and other legitimate services (other than salesforce, which is best just blocked) don't permit spam, whereas gmail and outlook don't give a fuck unless the spammer gets a large amount of abuse reports. Certainly mailchimp and the like make things simpler, but the price can be quite high.
- jstanley 6mo agoThis seems to be a laughable claim? I don't get anything but spam from Mailchimp.
- cpncrunch 6mo agoNo, it's valid for me, and I just verified. In spam filter for past month: 0 mailchimp. In valid emails: 6 emails from a service that I signed up for via mailchimp. Checking my received emails for mailchimp I see a whole bunch of legitimate emails, including for flightschedulepro which uses it. I also see replies to my abuse reports to mailchimp saying the problems have been addressed. Do you report any of these spams to mailchimp?
- hgaddipa001 6mo ago[flagged]
- throwawaysoxjje 6mo agoI wonder if this has to do with the massive number of google calendar invites I’ve been getting as payment/billing notifications lately. I’ve not been reporting them because I already know they aren’t valid and do not google’s work for them
- KomoD 6mo agoI thought they fixed that spam method a while ago
- detourdog 6mo agoI haven't seen that ooe lately. I currently get lots of Nortoon Lifelock invoices with hundreds of addresses in the to field. I always report them with suggestions they teach their AI that invoices sent to large number of addresses are phishing.
- john_strinlai 6mo agowe received several this week, so apparently not
- Barbing 6mo agoAnyone getting hit with (Google) AppSheet-originating recruitment emails? Very well done. Imitating the biggest US brands. Have reported AppSheet to FCC after seeing Google wasn't doing enough--same scam email format, same inbox-landing pathway, but still irked. Also try forwarding the emails to the phishing emails of the misrepresented brands, when they have an address for it. Figure they're the ones who have any power.
- TabTwo 6mo agoHad Google trying to send me mails to non-existing mail-addresses over months. You would think their logs might catch something like that or they would react to my complaints ... they don't and they just dont care. It sometimes stops for weeks, then it continiues. from my logs as an example: Nov 13 22:10:51 bert postfix/smtpd[2693931]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from mail-oi1-x248.google.com[2607:f8b0:4864:20::248]: 450 4.1.8 <ki+bncBD77RLFFQACRBZOX3DEAMGQEU5V3LXY@zf.thesparklebar.com>: Sender address rejected: Domain not found; from=<ki+bncBD77RLFFQACRBZOX3DEAMGQEU5V3LXY@zf.thesparklebar.com> to=<rmayer13@nerd-residenz.de> proto=ESMTP helo=<mail-oi1-x248.google.com> Nov 13 22:12:07 bert postfix/smtpd[2696594]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from mail-ua1-x948.google.com[2607:f8b0:4864:20::948]: 450 4.1.8 <ki+bncBD77RLFFQACRBZOX3DEAMGQEU5V3LXY@zf.thesparklebar.com>: Sender address rejected: Domain not found; from=<ki+bncBD77RLFFQACRBZOX3DEAMGQEU5V3LXY@zf.thesparklebar.com> to=<rmayer1000@nerd-residenz.de> proto=ESMTP helo=<mail-ua1-x948.google.com> Nov 13 22:12:18 bert postfix/smtpd[2696594]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from mail-wm1-x346.google.com[2a00:1450:4864:20::346]: 450 4.1.8 <ki+bncBDO2ZDH5DIIOXB6ZZADBUBFIYC6HQ@zf.thesparklebar.com>: Sender address rejected: Domain not found; from=<ki+bncBDO2ZDH5DIIOXB6ZZADBUBFIYC6HQ@zf.thesparklebar.com> to=<rmayer13@nerd-residenz.de> proto=ESMTP helo=<mail-wm1-x346.google.com> Nov 13 22:12:37 bert postfix/smtpd[2696594]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from mail-lf1-x146.google.com[2a00:1450:4864:20::146]: 450 4.1.8 <ki+bncBDO2ZDH5DIIOXB6ZZADBUBFIYC6HQ@zf.thesparklebar.com>: Sender address rejected: Domain not found; from=<ki+bncBDO2ZDH5DIIOXB6ZZADBUBFIYC6HQ@zf.thesparklebar.com> to=<rmayer333@nerd-residenz.de> proto=ESMTP helo=<mail-lf1-x146.google.com> Nov 13 22:13:08 bert postfix/smtpd[2696594]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from mail-lj1-x248.google.com[2a00:1450:4864:20::248]: 450 4.1.8 <hc+bncBDO2ZDH5DIIOXB6ZZADBUBB2QEZ74@zf.thesparklebar.com>: Sender address rejected: Domain not found; from=<hc+bncBDO2ZDH5DIIOXB6ZZADBUBB2QEZ74@zf.thesparklebar.com> to=<rmayer@nerd-residenz.de> proto=ESMTP helo=<mail-lj1-x248.google.com> Nov 13 22:13:08 bert postfix/smtpd[2696594]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from mail-wm1-x345.google.com[2a00:1450:4864:20::345]: 450 4.1.8 <ki+bncBDO2ZDH5DIIOXB6ZZADBUBFIYC6HQ@zf.thesparklebar.com>: Sender address rejected: Domain not found; from=<ki+bncBDO2ZDH5DIIOXB6ZZADBUBFIYC6HQ@zf.thesparklebar.com> to=<rmayerrmayer@nerd-residenz.de> proto=ESMTP helo=<mail-wm1-x345.google.com> Nov 13 22:14:03 bert postfix/smtpd[2696594]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from mail-lj1-x248.google.com[2a00:1450:4864:20::248]: 450 4.1.8 <ki+bncBDO2ZDH5DIIOXB6ZZADBUBFIYC6HQ@zf.thesparklebar.com>: Sender address rejected: Domain not found; from=<ki+bncBDO2ZDH5DIIOXB6ZZADBUBFIYC6HQ@zf.thesparklebar.com> to=<rmayera@nerd-residenz.de> proto=ESMTP helo=<mail-lj1-x248.google.com> As you can see, the to-address is generated and its different hosts at google trying to send mails. Searching for zf.thesparklebar.com shows others having the same problem.
- monegator 6mo agoUnfortunately, the only thing that would work is to hire a bot service that would report the offending account en masse.
- cpncrunch 6mo agogmail, outlook and salesforce create about 90% of the spam that gets through blacklists. Salesforce is simple to fix: I just block anything from salesforce from our network, as it just seems to be 100% used by spammers. Gmail and outlook are the major problem, as there is no way of addressing their spam issue.
- Washuu 6mo agoAdd Mailchimp in there as well. I have never gotten an email from someone using Mailchimp that was not spam.
- cpncrunch 6mo agoAlthough they does have proper abuse policies and do take action against spammers. I don't get any spam from them (except perhaps the very occasional one), and I know businesses that use mailchimp and similar services for valid marketing (to previous customers). Just looking through my received mailbox, I see many legitimate emails from mailchimp. I'm not denying that they are sometimes used by spammers, but they are definitely a legitimate operation that takes action against spammers if you report them.
- Anamon 6mo agoMany of my consciously subscribed-to newsletters use Mailchimp, such as record shops and labels. They're also one of the mail services I have a better impression of given their responses to my reports.
- nwellnhof 6mo agoIn my experience, everyone got their act together except Google. I also used to receive massive amounts of spam from Azure and Sendgrid but this eventually stopped. Now 80% of the spam I receive is from the Google network, mainly Google Cloud.
- walletdrainer 6mo agoWhy do you interpret that as everyone except Google getting their act together? The obvious (and correct) explanation is deliverability. Spammers send from Google services because they can inbox, they don’t send from other services because those services will not inbox successfully.
- shevy-java 6mo agoGoogle removed humans, so ... anyone able to contact real people at Google?
- n3storm 6mo agoI have been observing this for the last 2-3 years (4 postfix servers sysadmin) Gmail cannot be whitelisted anymore: spam, phishing,... On the other hand, if your users redirect twitter or linkedin notifications from their domain to a gmail account, Google claims you are sending too fast and is suspicious (and throttles or blocks ip). Hilarious.
- hani1808 6mo ago[dead]
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- anonymousiam 6mo agoLately I've been using SpamCop.net to make spam reports. It seems to work, and it's free. You are encouraged to donate, and they don't ask for much. It's not perfect though. For some reason, it doesn't find (or deliberately ignores) OVH hosts that are relaying spam.
- dirkf 6mo agoI've been using SpamCop for years (decades?) but lately I've been wondering if they're still relevant. One example: they seem to have a size limit of 50KB when you report a spam mail via their web form. I've received quite some spam that exceeds that because they use base64 encoding of the body, add non-visible filler content to drown out the actual spam/phishing message, etc. SpamCop suggests to cut off the message and still process it but then they miss e.g. the link to the phishing website and thus they can't send out a report for that. Speaking of phishing links: a lot of the phishing mails I receive, link to some account on storage.googleapis.com. I've seen mails with links to the same account for weeks on end before they switch to a different one, implying that these links remain online for a long time. You would think that marking such mails as phishing in GMail (they are already flagged as spam) would get them on some kind of radar but apparently not...
- Anamon 6mo agoI've started using phish.report along with SpamCop to specifically report phishing sites separately. They do a hosting lookup and link directly to the abuse contact or form. Phishers are definitely trying to become cleverer. My "favourite" so far is adding the phishing link only in a QR code in an embedded PNG.
- jwr 6mo agoI gave up on trying to report abuse to Google, Amazon or Microsoft. It seems reports simply get ignored and the big providers do nothing. I hope the FSF with its weight and media presence can finally do something. Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are my major sources of spam. These days, this is where spam comes from. At this point, they are also too big to block. We allowed this to happen, through neglect and laziness. Even in this discussion: how many people use Gmail as their primary email service?
- alpaca128 6mo agoOn YouTube I reported bot accounts for a couple days, the only reaction I got was that at some point it showed a popup that told me too many false reports would lead to a ban. Not sure what Google gets out of it, but there is no way they could be that bad at fighting bots unless they're not even trying. Even trivial tricks like copy-pasted texts keep working.
- luckylion 6mo agoBot comments and uploads count in KPIs. Blocking/Removing bots = KPIs look worse.
- LiamPowell 6mo agoThey're not trying. I've seen an advertiser remain active for months with literally tens of thousands of ads where clicking them directly downloads a malicious exe file that most antivirus scanners flag.
- nkrisc 6mo agoThey make money on those ads, you’re asking a mega corporation to make less money. Good luck.
- loopdoend 6mo agoTech support scams still?! I don't even understand how this is possible. If Google wanted to they could come up with the tech to bypass the spam/scammers own ghosting system. They must have some kind of invisible Google bot that checks for downloads/scams, right? Phone providers should also be detecting this with AI. There is no way this should be occurring anymore.
- Havoc 6mo agoCrazy that you can even send that sort of volume from a gmail acc
- vachina 6mo agosomeone hooked up their web app to Google Workspace email and the web app got pwned. Google Workspace email is very generous with the kind of outgoing email you can send via their SMTP servers.
- tiku 6mo agoI'm reporting every spamm mail that I get through Gmail from Gmail accounts but it doesn't seem to help!
- danayfm 6mo agoI was getting spam called constantly every 5 minutes (blocked by Google call screening) and the attackers made an error if sending a message with their AWS bucket url. I was able to submit an abuse report to Amazon and puff Amazon dismantled the entire spam group. No more spam since then. Maybe try saying the spam has porn or inappropriate images?
- ilamont 6mo agoI got a human being at Google to look into my problem and take action after sending a police report to Google‘s legal department certified mail return receipt along with a letter describing how someone was impersonating me and my business using a Gmail address in an attempt to commit fraud. Yes, it was a pain to take all of these steps and it probably took about 3 hours but it was absolutely necessary considering there was no avenue for me to shut down this person otherwise.
- ModernMech 6mo agoOh that's a good idea! I got locked out of my YouTube premium account and they kept charging me. Couldn't get in contact with anyone at YouTube because the YT premium support line is behind the YT login. So I had to change my credit card number. Somehow they still kept billing the card, so the credit card company said they'd have to close my account entirely to get Google to stop billing me for a service they wouldn't let me cancel.
- ceejayoz 6mo agoThat's a built-in thing; Visa, MasterCard, Amex all have updater services that ensure trusted merchants get the replacement card seamlessly. This leads to annoying edge cases like yours. https://stripe.com/resources/more/what-is-a-card-account-updater-what-businesses-need-to-know https://stripe.com/resources/more/what-is-a-card-account-upd... You can sometimes ask your bank to issue a card and not ping the updater service, but tier one support tends… not to know about it at all.
- rubyfan 6mo agoBoA issued me a new card after a fraudulent charge, the next year on the same date the same fraudulent charge showed up (annual billing cycle). This happened for more than three years because after they issued a new card they updated the service that billed the fraud with the new number.
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- YesThatTom2 6mo agoI’m old enough to remember when the FSF said that blocking spam was censorship. Good to see them wake up.
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- Kim_Bruning 6mo ago(I haven't run my own mail-server in a while. It's getting harder and harder.) Are the real-time-blackhole lists still a thing? If they're regularly allowing spam and not responding to reports in any sort of timely manner, possibly they should be reported to those. Not going to work though, is it. Too big to fail shouldn't be a thing. It's not like you can't be flexible about it or give them some room to deal with it within corporate policy; but they do need to deal with it, right? Realistically, I think some companies have outgrown the size where internet can still self-regulate them. You'd hurt yourself more than gmail. This either needs laws or new game theory. Or -you know- deprecate the current email system. I know that's a perennial proposal; but that's because every year it gets even more broken in even more interesting ways. It's patch-on-patch-on-patch at the moment. Just spinning up sendmail on a random box won't quite cut it anymore, if you want to participate.
- nikanj 6mo agoContact a human person at Google, one who can actually do something about a ticket? I also have a good selection of bridges for sale!
- dfhvneoieno 6mo ago[dead]
- ModernMech 6mo agoAh yes, the tried and true method of getting into contact with someone at google: sending a blast to social media for an actual human, because Google literally makes it impossible to talk to anyone at all. Worst customer support in all of tech.
- tag2103 6mo agoRhetorical question- but what is it going to take for the IT Community to start treating Gmail and the rest of the "too big to block" as adversarial entities and actually block them for their bad behavior. Pie in the sky I know.
- andrewmcwatters 6mo agoMicrosoft refuses to deliver legitimate emails to hotmail.com addresses so I tell clients how it is. I’m not jumping through hoops when I’m not doing anything wrong. SPF, DMARC, DKIM, IP address not on a blacklist, and I send zero spam. Only human-written client communications 1:1. So, my clients with hotmail.com addresses don’t get emails from me. I can call them, they can call me.
- e40 6mo agoMicrosoft refuses to send emails to itself? How bizarre.
- pessimizer 6mo ago> IT Community No such thing. And if you just want to assign anybody who works in IT to it in order to create the concept of such of a thing, a large percentage of this community would work at Google, a company that depends on Google, or a company that has the same attitude as google. So it's less pie in the sky than nonsense. People don't talk about things changing in the physical world without talking about force, mass and inertia, but when it comes to people, the theory of power just evaporates and we start wishing for things to spontaneously happen because we've declared that they should happen. With some weird definition of "should" which relies on our personal conception of the world. In the physical world, we say something "should" happen when we expect it to happen based on our theories of how the world works. With people we say things "should" happen when we personally want them hard enough.
- mattbee 6mo agoThere was a time before Google when various mailing lists of grumpy sysadmins in key institutions could decide the fate of a new mail sender, internet-wide. But yes that "internet community" is small fry now, and can only cut off their own noses if they don't like Google's mail policies. Before Google, AOL were the previous big-beast mail host, and they did provide some tools to help diagnose why you couldn't get through to their users. It still felt like there was more of a balance of power towards the grumpy sysadmins.
- PunchyHamster 6mo agoSend DMCA takedown, that's only thing big companies seem to react. Without checking validity of it of course
- john_strinlai 6mo agoonly big companies are allowed to abuse the dmca process, unfortunately.
- avian 6mo agoSomewhat related to spam coming from Google servers, maybe someone can shed some light on what could be the motivation behind this activity: In recent months I'm seeing instances where random personal mail accounts on a server I run would receive a barrage of mail in a short amount of time. Mail seems to be bounced via Google Groups - they are sent from Google's IPs and have headers like X-Google-Group-Id, List-*, etc. all pointing to Google Groups. The actual group ID changes after each individual instance of this. However when I actually check e.g. the List-Archive URL, the group appears to be already been deleted. The content of mail looks like it originates from various (legit-looking) random public web services, support requests, issue trackers, web contact forms etc. For example, a common reoccurring one is Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (as in something like "thank you for filing a document #123 with us"). No apparent phishing links, no attached malware, no short advertisements snuck into a text field etc. Just automated replies from "noreply@"-type addresses. It does not seem to be the case of trying to hide another attack (as discussed here for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609882 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609882) - over many instances I've not seen any other malicious activity. And this mail is filtered out easily enough based on Google's headers. It all looks like there is some bot that a) creates a Google group and subscribes (one or more) random email addresses to a Google group and then b) enters the group's mail address into a bunch of random web forms that then send their automated responses to the group. What could be the motivation for this? After the fact it's filtered pretty easily based on headers. It's not nearly enough volume to DoS the server. But why would someone go through the trouble of setting this up?
- silvershell 6mo agoYes. I got the same issue… and when someone replies, all users in the mailing list receive it… that’s why I would see a ton of replies saying please remove me from your mailing list. Very annoying. The only solution I found was to create an inbox rule to reject those, as I couldn’t unsubscribe
- vk6flab 6mo agoThe headers actually contain an unsubscribe email address that actually works. The format is something like googlegroups-manage+{groupName}+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com Just send an email there and they stop coming (for that list). Source: I was getting spam like this, a fellow victim did some tests and confirmed that it stopped the onslaught of messages.
- talkingtab 6mo agoAnyone interested in creating a CommunityEmailAlliance. Like dkim but with blocks on corporate email systems that allow spamming?
- dev_l1x_be 6mo agoGoogle took over email when they reject legitimate emails sent by small email vendors and at the same time sending this much spam.
- binaryturtle 6mo agoI'm getting a lot, and I mean A LOT, spam recently from various "<IP in reverse notation>.bc.googleusercontent.com" domains. Not sure what can be done about that. But the uptick is very noticeable.
- tolciho 6mo agoDepends on the mail server. I'd probably 5xx all mail from googleusercontent.com as I don't give a toss if something Google breaks, and could debug what happened from the mail server logs. Google's incompetence in marking all the OpenBSD mailing list traffic as spam is why I'm running my own MX. If you have actual customers on your mail services you should audit the logs, see if anyone is actually using Google for something legit (usually it's the spam, I mean, marketing department being their usual sleazy selves), maybe flag the messages as potential spam by default. If you do have users doing something wacky with googleusercontent.com (email notifications from batch jobs, or something?) there are other ways those notifications could be done, e.g. over a VPN or via some other service that would allow all googleusercontent.com to be blocked by default from doing SMTP, ideally at the firewall level so less CPU is wasted on them. Complications here are that people forget or leave and so there might be some wacky workflow that uses Google running on some walled off server somewhere, so it may be a months long "slow simmer" to see if there is anything legit hiding in the noise. Or you could yank the band-aid off and see what breaks?
- julianz 6mo agoYup, same. I'm blocking bc.googleusercontent.com and also firebaseapp.com for now. The reverse DNS should also be able to be used, as the fakey spam domains don't match up with the PTR record, but I want to wait until I can watch the logs for a bit to make sure that works nicely. e.g. PTR: 53.220.83.34.bc.googleusercontent.com HELO: sax.co.uk
- dueltmp_yufsy 6mo agoI wonder if they do not take this kind of thank that seriously so to encourage the paid tier for storage. I am teetering nearer my end to the free, mostly from all the emails over the years.
- siren2026 6mo agoif you are tech literate and still use Google, you brought this on yourself.