Russian Spam Gmail Filter
This morning was the final straw. Although Gmail spam protection is a godsend, I don’t see how so many Russian emails make it into my inbox (Perhaps relatives of Sergey?). I cannot read sputnik - yet apparently spammers think I’m interested in whatever they’re offering.
I did some sleuthing and found that the character ? is common and stands by itself in most spams. English translation according to Google и == AND. I did a couple test searches and this seem to work well - so here’s what I came up with.
- Create a new filter in Gmail (Settings > Filters)
- Has The Words: и (Next Step)
- x Delete (Create)
Spam free (for the most part) again!
UPDATE
I still got some Russian Spam THIS morning! Time for another filter.
- Create a new filter in Gmail (Settings > Filters)
- Has The Words: до (Next Step)
- x Delete (Create)
Popularity: 7% [?]
Kyle… no more Russian Porn! that should fix it..
left this nugget of wisdom May 17th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
I also think I may create another filter for those Penis Enlargement emails that tend to break through from time to time Subject: Penis » Delete
left this nugget of wisdom May 17th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
thank you, just what I was hoping to find!
left this nugget of wisdom August 6th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Found this today when looking for a way to block the russian spam I was getting. Thank so much for showing which characters work the best.
left this nugget of wisdom September 25th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
This works better for me: has the words ? OR ?
left this nugget of wisdom January 8th, 2008 at 8:30 am
I missed those characters - when I moved this blog over to Media Temple the encoding was screwy and the character set got screwed up. Should work now though!
left this nugget of wisdom January 8th, 2008 at 8:48 am