Re: Royal Back of Canada Phish coming from Google Gmail

Randolf Richardson =?UTF-8?B?5by15paH6YGT?=  <noc@inter-corporate.com> wrote:

Or is there something I'm missing here?  Do you think an
eMail provider such as Google GMail should be held
responsible for the actions of their users?  Perhaps the
problem is that user accounts of scammers are not being
shut down?  (If so, then I wonder if perhaps that could
make them liable as ongoing facilitators.)

It is expected that any provider would make basic attempts to prevent
spam.  That includes shutting down the accounts of users who have
engendered spam complaints, as well as throttling email or shutting
down accounts when obvious spam signatures are found.  If someone is
sending thousands of messages a day to consecutive addresses, it is
worth investigating them to see if they are spamming.

gmail actually does an okay job of this but a lot of them fall through
the cracks just because of the number of users they have.  And Google
Groups, although it no longer can be used to spam Usenet, can be set up
with distribution mailing lists to send spam and Google completely
ignores those.
--scott

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Inter-Corporate Computer & Network Services, Inc.
Beautiful British Columbia, Canada
https://www.inter-corporate.com/

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