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Gmail & Spam Question
Lucky Cynic
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I don't know about you guys, but uh, what's with my spam folder on my gmail account. I mean, I empty it like once a week, but it fills back up with about 100 emails a week. All for the same stuff, like v1@gr/\ and p1llz for (HeAp1!! What's the deal with these? I mean, I didn't distribute my gmail address more than my comcast address. Or is this something like google testing it's own filter or what?
Not like crisis or anything, but just a question I felt needed asking.
Not like crisis or anything, but just a question I felt needed asking.
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I never get any in my Inbox, mind you.
If you have an email account, it will recieve spam eventually. It's just one of those things.
Bots crawl along valid googlepage addresses and pick up your username so they can send spam to you. I had no spam Whatsoever until I did this.
If you actually have your email posted on the site itself, yup, you'll get spam.
Best way if you want people to be able to contact you, set up a form with a captcha system to shut down the spam. You'll still get the ones you have, but you won't get new ones.