I didn't post my gmail account to anything on the web (I think), but I have started to get spam already. My guess would be is that they are dictionary attacks, but even so it would suck if google wasn't filtering it so well. I doubt that spam will continue to be a good way to mass market a product, but it's got to work on some level now for people to making money doing it.
I just wonder how soon it will before google offers companies gmail for corp mail servers sort of like how they the google appliance and you rent the hardware and software. I wonder what they will call the mail box if they call their search engine an "appliance". Will the mail server be the "google toaster"? Maybe they are saving that for their google cluster which would "pop" out hard disks that crashed... god, that would be funny...
What a coincidence. Me too! You are right, it must be a dictionary attack.
ReplyDeleteI see the first couple of letters of my gmail username being addressed in the spam.
I find that most of the spam I receive is pretty blatant spam. This means that spamassassin catches it really easily. I have my spam level set pretty low, at 4.0. It has yet to get a false positive. Most mail i get that I want only rates as maybe a 1, so i'm not worried. Then again most spam rates around 20. I'm not sure what hotmail uses but it sure does let a lot of stuff through that good junk mail filter should get rid of.
ReplyDeleteHow good is google's filter in terms of filtering spam, not filtering real mail, and configurability? I think the reason that spam is still a good business model is because most people don't have good filters, or no filters at all on their email. This means there message is at least getting to a lot of people.