Shaw's email spam

[wynford]

I've been getting a lot of spam email from Shaw that has no content, all from weird addresses such as inquiry7301@livecms.biz and noreply@thread-club.com and many others... there's no sense in me creating spam  filters as the return address is always different.

Looks like their filters are not completely working properly.

I also have an @outlook.com email account (Microsoft) and I never get any spam in that account

[mdk]

@wynford -- are you getting E-mail "from Shaw" or "through Shaw" to your ID?  If you view the "headers" of the E-mail, was it a Shaw/Rogers customer who changed their "From:" details to NOT cite their Shaw E-mail ID?

If there is no content in the message, how do you expect Shaw's filters to find anything "spammy" ?

Do those "spam" messages have an attachment that the spammers want you to open?

What app do you use to process your E-mail? Shaw WebMail? Microsoft's "new Outlook" ?  Windows Mail? Other?

Can you configure your mail app's filters to move all incoming messages from friends into a "Good" folder? Repeat for all friends.  Then, the remainder of messages in your Inbox will be from "unknown" senders. Switch to your "Good" filter, to prioritize your processing of E-mail from your friends.

Do a Google-search for your Shaw E-mail ID, to see if it is found online. Repeat for your Outlook ID. Can you eliminate all references to either ID?

[wynford]

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@mdk wrote:

@wynford -- are you getting E-mail "from Shaw" or "through Shaw" to your ID?  If you view the "headers" of the E-mail, was it a Shaw/Rogers customer who changed their "From:" details to NOT cite their Shaw E-mail ID?

Can't check as they have been deleted

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If there is no content in the message, how do you expect Shaw's filters to find anything "spammy" ?

Then how does Microsoft do it?

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Do those "spam" messages have an attachment that the spammers want you to open?

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None that I have seen

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What app do you use to process your E-mail? Shaw WebMail? Microsoft's "new Outlook" ?  Windows Mail? Other?

I have looked at them through webmail.  iphone and new outlook

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Can you configure your mail app's filters to move all incoming messages from friends into a "Good" folder? Repeat for all friends.  Then, the remainder of messages in your Inbox will be from "unknown" senders. Switch to your "Good" filter, to prioritize your processing of E-mail from your friends.

I probably could

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Do a Google-search for your Shaw E-mail ID, to see if it is found online. Repeat for your Outlook ID. Can you eliminate all references to either ID?

How do you do that?

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[rstra]

@wynford  Could be spammers are checking to see if the email address is valid and active. 

[mdk]

@wynford wrote Then how does Microsoft do it?

Using Artificial Intelligence to do surveilance of the millions of daily E-mail messages, to discern "trends" amidst the "flood" of messages. Maybe, 10 to 1000 times the number of messages that flow through Rogers (outsourced) mail-processing servers.

Did you really expect a "Microsoft insider", e.g., an employee of Microsoft, to publicize how it is done, so that spammers can avoid hitting such "triggers", and for that employee to get fired for revealing "company secrets" ?