On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 07:27:38AM +0200, ludic...@gmail.com wrote:
> Google does not honor abuse addresses, or spamcop.
>
> Which makes it the #1 scammer paradise.
The key problem is that email accounts are free, and the 419 scammers
are not bots, and so it is difficult to prevent them from opening a new
account. Ideally their messages would trigger outbound filtering when
composed, but stopping them must be harder than one would naïvely
expect, and conveniently for the big email hosters, not a problem
they need to solve.
The scammer just needs to avoid sending spam to any Gmail users from
a Gmail account, and everyone else has no effective way to complain.
Another barrier to effectively shutting them down is that much of the
junk is sent via various other outbound services, with just the
Reply mailbox on Gmail (or similar). It is then difficult to convice
Google to shut down a mailbox that is not even directly a sender of
the junk.
Externalities are great when you're not the one on the hook for the
costs.
--
Viktor.
