WorldFun Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 KS, Aha - and those 'spam databases' also contain the full sender name (as per the 'hacked/phished' web email client (hotmail in this case)? I mean should that be feasible/easy also? The problem of course with this kind of spam is it can't be filtered away as the email (and even the name) is valid & belong to friends/relatives/business :-( cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 I don't know why but I find yahoo has the least spam. Gmail gets the most. Hotmail is still the target of choice I suspect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 Hi, "and those 'spam databases' also contain the full sender name (as per the 'hacked/phished' web email client (hotmail in this case)?" It would not surprise me in the slightest. Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamui Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 I don't know why but I find yahoo has the least spam. Gmail gets the most. Hotmail is still the target of choice I suspect. Where do you have the numbers from? I don't think that there is a huge difference between the three providers. Anyway Gmail has an almost perfect spam filter. We receive around 2-3 spam mails per week in our inbox. False positives are around 1-2 mails per month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 No numbers. Just my personal experience. I use all three. Yahoo definitely gets the least spam in or out of the mailbox. Gmail inbox filter is good but the spam box fills up fast. Maybe just me. Hotmail just seems to attract the most inventive hackers/phishers etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shygye Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 For me, Yahoo gets the most spam of the 3 by at least a factor of 50X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Munchmaster Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 Spam is dangerous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WorldFun Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 spam doesn't come by itself - emails are left in 'open view' & thus if one person most often use ones say yahoo account when registering at all 'suspected spam' sites surely yahoo account is the one to fill up fast (once the first triggers are in!), so next variabel as indicated is the providers spam filter & I tend to agree gmail is 2nd to none I never check the spam folder, but definitely it gets double digits daily so it's like full time job were I to actually check LOL. on the other hand hotmail filter may be TOO agressive & often mails from new senders gets straigt to spam even from very reliable companies/senders - useless if they expect us to keep every single new sender in contacts manually!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weird Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 my gmail, yahoo, and hotmail get 0 spam. It's a matter of keeping your e-mails private. If you've ever posted your e-mail on a website, registered at some porn site, had a contact who's been hacked, chances are your e-mail address was distributed regardless of which e-mail provider you are using. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted January 26, 2010 Report Share Posted January 26, 2010 When you get these bogus emails, just reply, add a few Mb of some pictures or crap, copy and paste their email address into the "cc" about 100 times and send this crap back to them! A few of these replies and you will be off their list! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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