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Spammers Choose GMail

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the my-inbox-it-hurts dept.

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.

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  1. Spoken languages? by dimer0 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm baffled why it's so hard to put some dropdown on gmail (or a set of checkboxes) that say "Here are the languages I can speak/read:", and let me pick English. I'm getting a ton of Russian spam coming in with a character set I don't even know, ... seems like that would be incredibly easy way to filter some of this stuff.