Jeff Woelker : Chicago SEO, SEM, and Social Media Consultant

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WTF? Gmail image spammers have reverted to spamming Stock tips using WWII Japanese references? Is that what it’s come to?

Also, what’s up with the “hi, It’s Jeff”, “hi, It’s Joey”, “hi, It’s Francois” spams?

I have no idea what Gmail is doing to try and filter those, besides IP address. Can’t really filter based on anything else, as most of the message is just random text.

And what is the point of those? I assume just probes to test if the message got through or not, because they have no action item “Visit www.hi-its-francis.com” or “call 555-555-5555″, so what else can it be for?