GoogleGroups is becoming a spammer’s paradise
Tags :GoogleGroups spam filtering
Recently I have been watching not only my own mail account but the logs of caught spam across a ton of customers. By domain. You would not think that GoogleGroups would be getting marked, as people subscribe to them for the most part. What I am finding is that spammers are now creating GoogleGroups and adding huge lists to them.
Enterprises for the most part will trust Google as an authorized sender. So unless the email contains words or other variables to set off triggers, they are getting through. User's are then blocking the reply-to address or all of GoogleGroups, depending on how they were trained or what type of spam filter they are using.
Even the DomainKey and DKIM are matching for hostname lookups since it is Google sending the email. The funny thing is you may not even use the address being sent to as a Google account, so removing yourself is even harder.
Most of the senders are technology based companies, so reporting them inside of Google is troublesome to do as well, so you find yourself just marking it as spam and moving along.
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On Wednesday, March 16th, 2011 by Chris Miller
