Spam domains that plague my email
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Spam domains that plague my email
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Re: Spam domains that plague my email
#2I am seeing Google constantly fail to catch obvious spam emails. At this point I suspect there is some institutional error on their part, where bad actors inside the org are allowing certain domains to simply not be spam filtered.
Re: Spam domains that plague my email
#3I am seeing Google constantly fail to catch obvious spam emails. At this point I suspect there is some institutional error on their part, where bad actors inside the org are allowing certain domains to simply not be spam filtered.
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
Re: Spam domains that plague my email
#4Surprised to not see gmail.com in the list[1].
[1]: https://drewdevault.com/2021/02/25/Gmail-is-a-huge-source-of... , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26265329
Re: Spam domains that plague my email
#5I am seeing Google constantly fail to catch obvious spam emails. At this point I suspect there is some institutional error on their part, where bad actors inside the org are allowing certain domains to simply not be spam filtered.
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
Sorry, a "your account has been locked, please reset your password" email to an .edu address from a gmail.com address is 100% always fraudulent, a 5th grader could tell you that, yet google lets it go through.
Re: Spam domains that plague my email
#6Surprised to not see gmail.com in the list[1]. [1]: https://drewdevault.com/2021/02/25/Gmail-is-a-huge-source-of... , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26265329
DARPA invented a communications network that could survive a nuclear war. Instead, everyone uses Gmail.
If any other source of spam was so resistant to receiving abuse reports, they would be blackholed by everyone.
Thanks, antitrust enforcement.
Re: Spam domains that plague my email
#7Surprised to not see gmail.com in the list[1]. [1]: https://drewdevault.com/2021/02/25/Gmail-is-a-huge-source-of... , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26265329
When I self-hosted email I used Spamhaus to as a block list and Spam Assassin to filter the rest. Gmail users made up the biggest chunk of spam that got through but it was never from Google/Gmail domains, it was almost always from a Gmail user with a custom domain.
Re: Spam domains that plague my email
#8These are usually domains that belong to a disposable email service, be it public or private.
I maintain a 100% free API [1] to check if an email belongs to a disposable email service. We dogfood the same API endpoint to prevent users who abuse disposable emails to create fake accounts for free trial credits.
We use the domains found at https://www.stopforumspam.com/downloads amongst other sources of data. Works pretty well. We have close to eliminated fake account registration with the use of Recaptcha.
[1]: https://nubela.co/proxycurl/disposable-email-checker-api
Re: Spam domains that plague my email
#9I am seeing Google constantly fail to catch obvious spam emails. At this point I suspect there is some institutional error on their part, where bad actors inside the org are allowing certain domains to simply not be spam filtered.
I mark email from someone spam over and over, and it can still get past Gmail. It's infuriating.
Re: Spam domains that plague my email
#10I am seeing Google constantly fail to catch obvious spam emails. At this point I suspect there is some institutional error on their part, where bad actors inside the org are allowing certain domains to simply not be spam filtered.
I mark email from someone spam over and over, and it can still get past Gmail. It's infuriating.
Create a custom filter in Gmail to delete it; let it bypass the inbox and go straight to trash.
(There's a "Filter messages like these" option somewhere)