Comments on: Yahoo’s spam filter sucks!

By: Jordan

Jordan — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:51:11 +0000

I have gmail and I love it

By: Dude

Dude — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:54:55 +0000

Dude you know u shld put like a disclaimer on your site stating that ALL Nigerians are NOT scammers…its not cool when u sound off like that.
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By: Al

Al — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:45:55 +0000

You forget the best part about yahoos useless spam filter. The false positives! Who even knows how many emails I was supposed to get that were randomly lost in my spam folder. Yahoo doesn’t let to search the spam folder (why the hell not? Wouldn’t that take about 5 seconds of SQL coding to pull off?) so the only way to check is to manually scroll through every single message in the spam folder and try to spot legitimate emails.

Of course, I can’t really do this. But as consolation I can click on one of the 40 messages for horny farm girls that make it through to my inbox today.

By: Mimi

Mimi — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:14:56 +0000

Does anyone know how to make sure if an email sent to Yahoo won’t be passed into spam folder?? I’m working on a website, and this issue really make me confused because every email we sent to our customers (which use Yahoo mail) were passed into the spam folder (in fact they’re not spams nor promotion emails)

By: Vladimir

Vladimir — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:58:51 +0000

Medivh,
Three Jehovah Witnesses came to my door several days ago, asking me if I have some free time. I said: “Sorry, I have no time right now, because I am a satanist and it’s time for my regular human sacrifices, so I’m on my way to find a victim, but if anyone of you is interested in becoming a martyr…”

Did you see this?
http://www.419eater.com/html/joe_eboh.htm
A hilarious story of a guy who persuaded a Nigerian spammer to send HIM some money, not mentioning doing other interesting things

By: Editor

Editor — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:05:35 +0000

I agree 100%. After much frustration (caused by Yahoo “misplacing” my domain registration a while back), I actually managed to speak to some one fairly high up on the feeding chain at Yahoo. The subject of spam email came up and I pointed out that I didn’t have the option of deleting/changing my heavily spammed account because, it was the original account associated with my domain. Drop the email and I lose my whole website.

Anyway… I point out to this Exec that 90% of the spam email is dated in the future… as far ahead as the year 2038. I said, why don’t you just block everything that is dated more than a week or two ahead of time. Think of the billions of emails that Yahoo would no longer have to hold on its servers.

And this way I’d at least have a fighting chance of actually finding a legitimate email that made it into the bulk folder by accident. Right now, to find an email from this week I have to click, page by page, through hundreds of “forward-dated” spam.

Guys, just set up a date filter and Yahoo will probably cut out 2/3 of the commercial spam.

By: Pedro

Pedro — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:18:07 +0000

phyreblade, Google for 419 Eater and Scambaiter; those are the sites you will have seen it on.

By: phyreblade

phyreblade — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 05:09:44 +0000

And this is why I use Gmail…

LOL

Dagnabbit, though, here I was thinking Ghana was a safe haven from these scamming feebs. But I guess it’s also a relatively poor country, and where theres a need, there’s a scam…

But the funny thing is, some of these Nigerian scammers are pretty persistent. And incredibly dumb. I think I saw one site where a guy had convinced the scammer send in a picture of himself with his laptop swinging from the family jewels as proof of his honesty.

I was certifiably impressed. Needless to say, in spite of that brave effort, he didn’t get the money, and probably isn’t going to have any children soon either…

By: Medivh

Medivh — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:32:44 +0000

I tell you what’s worse than an obvious scam, is when the scammer doesn’t know that they’re beat. As my land-line number is in the white pages, I get telemarketing calls fairly often. They usually go something like this:

He: “Hi, I’m calling from We Screw You Inc. Do you have a few minutes?”
Me: “No. I’m busy.”
He: “I said, ‘I’m calling from –”
Me: “Yeah, I heard. You didn’t. I’m busy, but too polite to slam the phone down.”
He: “Oh… errm…” *click*
Me: “But you’re not, apparently.”

What’s worse is that they assume that I didn’t understand them because they’re Indian, rather than actually listening to what I said. Frustrating bastards

By: tom

tom — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:44:29 +0000

my solution was to open a gmail account just so i could pop my yahoo account – gmail is my spam filter!