Comment on trending hack sending emails about a support ticket

Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• knighthawk0811@lemmy.one ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  other than specific filters and generic spam filter I have the “if content contains ‘unsubscribe’ then mark as read and never mark important”

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  • PoolloverNathan@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Watch out for email footers like “This is important account information. You cannot unsubscribe from these emails.”.

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    • knighthawk0811@lemmy.one ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      oh, yeah. it’s not perfect but it sure does remove so much crap i don’t intend to read.

      i recently missed an event invite because of it… luckily i was just a late responder and have not actually missed the event itself

      i definitely have to “browse” the unimportant emails regularly

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  • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Whose your email provider? Or do you self-host? If you have a provider you can report the spam to them so they can update their systems.

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    • knighthawk0811@lemmy.one ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m using Google. I’ve done that too. protecting inboxes is step one for sure, but i also want to know the extent of this. it’s not enough for me to just block the emails and leave it at that.

      if it keeps coming and i fail to block them all i want to have some info on the intent of this so I can properly educate others i work with to defend ourselves

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      • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh, we have a self-hosted exchange behind a watchguard and protected by Trend Micro. I haven’t seen very many of these emails you mentioned and it could be because of them. Though I can say we do get spam and malicious emails relentlessly from Gmail aliases.

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