Hotmail and Yahoo emails are blocked and filtered so heavily now that
spammers were having a hard time getting through.

Gmail is (was) relatively highly trusted, and so people don't block
such addresses.

Even though Gmail does a (slightly) better job at preventing spammers
from using their service, the opportunity of having a wider reach
(since few block gmail right now) makes it worth the effort.

Gmail uses reCAPTCHA for account creation, and so far the spammers
have found that they can get through it using automated means about 1
in 5 or 1 in 10 attempts.  So while it used to be hard, they now have
the software and technology to create thousands of new gmail accounts
a day.

If you notice, the reCAPTCHA project (now owned by Google) recently
(in the last 2-3 months) changed their image obfuscation noticably.
This is due to the arms race between Google and spammers.

So yes, Google is taking action, but no - even a company as 'smart'
and 'powerful' as google is going to have a hard time in the arms race
compared to unscrupulous people who get a significant profit from
spam, botnets, and phishing schemes.

-Adam

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Funny NYPD <funnynypd@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I used to got no spammer in email everyday, but found I receive up to ~10=
 of spammer emails each day recently, and all of them came from Gmail.
>
> On our forum, I was told 80% of the forum spammer are using Gmail by our =
forum administrator.
>
> So we took some action recently (simply blocked all Gmail user from regis=
tering) which heavily reduced the forum spammer from ~10/day to ~1/week.
>
> Hotmail and Yahoo mail used to be blamed as the spammer email source, but=
 now Gmail seems to be not only the No. 1 on searching, but also the No. 1 =
on spammer email sending.
>
> Is it because of Google lack of technology or they just don't want to tak=
e any action in the excuse of "Internet freedom"?
>
> =A0Funny N.
> Au Group Electronics, http://www.AuElectronics.com
> http://www.AuElectronics.com/products
> http://augroups.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
>
> --
> http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive
> View/change your membership options at
> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist
>

-- =

http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive
View/change your membership options at
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist