Spammers Choose GMail

EdwardLAN writes "A study by Roaring Penguin has discovered that during the past three weeks, the amount of spam originating from Gmail has risen sharply." My spam has been pretty ridiculously high for the last few weeks, although I have no idea if this is part of it. It really does seem like gmail's spam filters are declining these days.

Comments

Invite-Only

[Anubis_Ascended]

Maybe they should have just kept the system invite-only, instead of opening it up to everyone -- that would help, the way I see it.

Gmail's spam filters

[Anonymous Coward]

How does spammers creating gmail accounts to send spam from imply that gmail's spam filters for inbound mail are declining? (if that is indeed what the summary is supposed to say).

One thing Google could do about incoming spam...

[tgd]

Half of the spam I get on my gmail account that actually gets past the filter is in some language other than English... in fact its almost always in Cyrillic as well.

Give me a damn drop down that says "I speak English, anything not in English is not to me".

Won't solve their outgoing problem, but adding "this is my language" support would be a big help on the incoming, at least with my spam patterns.

Re:One thing Google could do about incoming spam..

[antifoidulus]

Google already does that for their ads. I'm an American living in Germany who also has friends in Japan that I coorespond with in Japanese. I get ads in English, German, and Japanese(in fact I get ads in Japanese offering to teach me English and/or German....) so if they can determine the language for the ads, then they should be able to use it for spam.... at least if you get an email in a language that isn't in your outbox it should trigger something..