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Old 17-06-2005, 20:49   #1
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Gmail spam - help

Keep getting messages like this:

"私共のグループでは男性様は一切のご負担なくご紹介致します。
私共は女性だけのグループです。
貴方様にメールをさせて頂いたのは理由があります。
女性の登録数が増え、男性のご登録が非常に少なくなり貴方様にメールをさせて貰いました。
一日最低10万円程度のお礼額は確実に決めております。
下記に逆援助可能な女性を3名ほど挙げさせていただきました。あなたのご希望の女性一名へ「お名前(ニックネーム)ご連絡先(このアドレスで結構です)簡単な自己PR」を沿えて、以下フォームよりご送信ください。。

http://otameshi.myftp.org/

返信を頂いた方には、女性より自己PR,希望日時等の書かれたメールが送られてきます。
実際に顔を見てご判断できますのでご安心下さい。



なお、配信を希望されない方はその旨をお書き添えいただき、以下までお願い致します。
mailkyohiken3695@yahoo.co.jp"
Getting annoying now! Anyone else getting the same?
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Old 17-06-2005, 22:19   #2
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I get different language ones yes, and many others too. seems to be only on gmail theyre sent
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Old 17-06-2005, 22:25   #3
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I've only ever had 3 spam email messages on my Gmail account, and I've been using it for over a year.
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Old 17-06-2005, 22:36   #4
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I've had very few gmail spam emails, and they have all been filtered automatically.
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Old 17-06-2005, 23:32   #5
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It usually has a lot to do with which websites you give your email address to rather than the email service providers themselves.
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Old 18-06-2005, 10:05   #6
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It usually has a lot to do with which websites you give your email address to rather than the email service providers themselves.
NO! On another thread, people on gmail were reciving junk mail becuase it was directed to SOMENAMETOGETITTOSENDTOEVERYONE@gmail.com
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Old 18-06-2005, 10:49   #7
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I don't get spam to my Gmail account and no-one else I know does, either. Get a lot to my Hotmail address, but then I used that one when I filled in a lot of online forms.
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Old 18-06-2005, 11:49   #8
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what do the mail headers look like?
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Old 18-06-2005, 13:02   #9
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Click 'Report as Spam' and you'll never see them again.
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Old 18-06-2005, 13:04   #10
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Click 'Report as Spam' and you'll never see them again.
acctually they go into the spam folder!

Anyway you cant block them BECAUSE THEYRE NOT ADDRESSED TO U
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Old 18-06-2005, 13:45   #11
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i have never had spam with gmail. only one person i know has had spam with gmail and that looked like it was stolen from a site he had signed up to (it was spoofing that site's address). he only received three spam mails too. once he pressed report as spam they stopped. big contrast to hotmail.
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Old 18-06-2005, 14:00   #12
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acctually they go into the spam folder!
Which you don't even have to bother looking at.

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Originally Posted by zoton2
Anyway you cant block them BECAUSE THEYRE NOT ADDRESSED TO U
Please enlighten me... how can you receive an e-mail that's not addressed to you?
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Old 18-06-2005, 14:24   #13
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Originally Posted by Multisandia
Please enlighten me... how can you receive an e-mail that's not addressed to you?
Well, sometimes, the address bit at the top says :

FROM : So & So
To : qmail

and my username is zoton2!
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Old 18-06-2005, 14:32   #14
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thanks, [dontbespammedemail]zoton2@gmail.com[/email]

anyway, if you click more options when viewing the spam email address, and then show original, copy and paste the top bit (up until the message starts) into DS so we can see who its addressed to - and then know who it is really addressed to.
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