MonkeyBoy <somewildmonkey@yahoo.com> wrote:

> For the last four months or so I have been receiving email spam on my
> Docomo cell phone.  There appears to be two types:  One has no text in
> the body, but contains an attachment (which I believe is a gif image,
> but that does not display on my cell phone).  The other type has text
> in the body which is random sentences (all in English).  Prior to this
> I have never received any spam on my cell phone at all.
> 
> I've also been receiving what I believe to be the same type of spam on
> two other email accounts I have on PC's.  Those spam emails are also
> the same two types I mentioned above.  However, on my PC, the
> attachement does get displayed as a gif image, which shows text that is
> promotional material for stock investments.
> 
> What I would like to know is if other people are receiving these types
> same type of spam emails.   It could just be that my email addresses
> are on someone's machine that is generating these spams.

I get them on my main email account--GOL's filter often doesn't flag
them as spam because either all the advertising is in the attached
image, or the random text doesn't have anything to latch onto. 

(They also fill my spam-trap accounts--but that's what they are for.)

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