I woke up this morning to find about 18 emails in my Gmail Inbox that were spam. I had caught a blurb on Slashdot yesterday about a new wave of spam but didn’t think it would get to me. It did. The way it seems to be working is they paste a bunch of text from a novel of some sort and then attach an image with the spam message in it.

It bothered me so much at first that I considered scrapping my Google Account under this name. I’ve gone years on this account without getting much spam. The funny part is that as soon as I stopped giving the address away on even sites I semi-trusted and started using Bloglines disposable email addresses for every sign up form, I started noticing more spam in the Spam Folder. I’m sure the spammers sell lists to each other and that is why it is growing.

The good news is that Gmail seems to learn quickly. After marking all of those messages as spam and then a couple more that trickled in this morning, Gmail placed one in the Spam Folder on its own. There is hope.

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