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I go in every month or so to retrieve a handful of legit messages and mark them as not spam. Today I had about 50 things in my spam, about ten of which didn't b
by iak8god 12y ago
I go in every month or so to retrieve a handful of legit messages and mark them as not spam. Today I had about 50 things in my spam, about ten of which didn't belong. Most were things I don't really care about, like LinkedIn invites to: some email address other than my main one, and some mailing lists I've subscribed to, but still this is bad and getting worse.
On a side note, about 20% of my actual spam over the last few months purports to be from young women named "Jessica," though it's not clear that I'm supposed to believe that it's coming from the same person. Is this just a go-to name for spam pretending to be from friendly (young female) strangers?
- pionar 12y agoUsing female names (especially "attractive" names like Jessica, Tiffany, etc.) is an old trick. Males will generally be more receptive to opening an email with a name like this in the from field.
- iak8god 12y agoYeah I get that. They they wouldn't do it if it didn't work, though I'm not sure quite who falls for this. In any case, I'm just amused that mine are so heavy on the Jessica.
- iak8god 12y agoKind of talking to myself here, but thought it was worth noting that "Jessica" was the top female baby name of the decade for both the 80s and 90s: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/ http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/