Banishing Russian Spam

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Morning!

You know, spam by itself is bad enough when you can at least read it (’tis amazing some of the marketing that these peoples use!) but when it’s in a foreign language completely like Russian….it’s just a bigger pain than ingesting 34 hunks of gnawed-off sheetrock.

So!  Today I awakened to see 34 Russian email spams….and I finally decided, enough is enough!!  So I started configuring my filter…and then realized, I don’t have a lot of time to devise the perfect 1-step filter rule.

And then I realized…..elegance isn’t the key here, just plain simple common sense is!

I opened two instances of my email in two browsers and set one to

Filter Rules

I created a Rule that read:

If Body contains ****, then delete the email

The I went to the other browser and opened my:

Inbox

Next I simply opened one of the Russian spams….and copied the first weird character to the previous Filter ruleset.   So instead of

****

I pasted the Cyrillic character.

I did this 10 more times, using a different character for each ruleset.  And the end result?

Not one Russian spam showed up in my Inbox - they were all deleted by my filters like so:

 Filter activity: The message "Любые, даже самые гярзные сексуальные фантазии, оживают здесь" from "daryle wengyik <vaughn@datarecognitioncorp.com>" has been deleted.

  Filter activity: The message "Только тут ты сможешь найти видео, которое взбудоражит тое воображение" from "griffith cyril <tdgvf@ms7.hinet.net>" has been deleted.

  Filter activity: The message "Любые, даже самые грязные сексуальные антазии, оживают здесь" from "alexandr marci <sugoto@qcora.com>" has been deleted.

Nice, eh?

Need a tutorial for setting up your own filters?  Check out Make Sure You Get Your Newsletters and Other Good Mail - it provides tips for over 40 different mailing programs.

Enjoy,

Barbara Ling

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