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"Ukranian Girls" Scam Always Getting Through Spam Filter No Matter How Many Times I Report Emails
Hello, as stated in the title I am getting absolutely bombarded by emails telling me to go to a website to "meet hot Ukrainian girls" in what is obviously a phishing email, equipped with ridiculous f...
Exact same issue here, happening since early 2023. Have not found a way to stop it since I have been blocking based on the link they send: “beautylady.uk” or something of that sorts, but it seems like they rotate the link every week to something new so my filter works for 2-3 emails before one with a new link gets through. Plus, everything except the link is written with Unicode characters so they’re able to get around any filters based on subject or body with various permutations of Unicode characters that look the same. So it’s impossible to write a filter to block based on text alone. Unless the source of the emails is stopped, the neural network running the junk detection emails learns to block these, or outlook decides to add a filter for “80% or more of the email is non-ASCII characters”, I unfortunately don’t see a way to stop these annoying phishing emails.
It’s sad that we’ve essentially allowed the internet to reach a state where we’ve given up on trying to stop junk and phishing communication.
It’s sad that we’ve essentially allowed the internet to reach a state where we’ve given up on trying to stop junk and phishing communication.
It looks like as of around early October of 2023, the automatic junk filter finally started catching these junk emails. I see a few in there with new links (Gorgeous-2023.bid) that weren't in my custom filters that got automatically sent there. Good for Microsoft for training their new spam filters I guess.