Yep, plenty of new spam that's passing Gmail's spam filters. I'm seeing variations on a common format:
From: seemingly.real.name@gmail.com
To: several apparently real Gmail addresses
Subject: (no subject)
Blank body apparently, PDF attached which the web and mobile previews indicate is of a pretty young woman, possibly porn (I've not opened any).
Another variation, the same as above with random words as the subject, such as "shallop escape clause unfilled orders crockitude". This is an actual example from my inbox.
Another, same again, but with nonsense in the subject and body, e.g. "48046256 of hlbezmy". Actual example again. I noticed that the preview image of the PDF in this example has a yellow-green tinge, possibly an attempt to disguise flesh-tones?
And so on. And on, and on, and on. It smacks of a very deliberate, industrial scale approach either at training the filters, or at exploiting weak spots that have already been discovered.
As another commenter has pointed out, this spam really does feel like 90s spam all over again. This made me wonder, is it possible that 90s-flavour spam is a result of 90s-flavour filters falling out of favour and being dropped or becoming under-trained? Are we doomed to endless cycles of spam revivals?
From: seemingly.real.name@gmail.com To: several apparently real Gmail addresses Subject: (no subject) Blank body apparently, PDF attached which the web and mobile previews indicate is of a pretty young woman, possibly porn (I've not opened any).
Another variation, the same as above with random words as the subject, such as "shallop escape clause unfilled orders crockitude". This is an actual example from my inbox.
Another, same again, but with nonsense in the subject and body, e.g. "48046256 of hlbezmy". Actual example again. I noticed that the preview image of the PDF in this example has a yellow-green tinge, possibly an attempt to disguise flesh-tones?
And so on. And on, and on, and on. It smacks of a very deliberate, industrial scale approach either at training the filters, or at exploiting weak spots that have already been discovered.
As another commenter has pointed out, this spam really does feel like 90s spam all over again. This made me wonder, is it possible that 90s-flavour spam is a result of 90s-flavour filters falling out of favour and being dropped or becoming under-trained? Are we doomed to endless cycles of spam revivals?