SPAM

Have You Noticed Less Spam Email Lately?

Yeah, I didn’t think so

Screenshot of recent spam email I have received

Did you know that Google has been using AI for spam detection since 2019? It’s true, and back then they said AI was helping them block 100 million extra spam messages every day. If you are a Gmail user, you might have just spit out your coffee, for which I apologize.

I still have a Gmail account and yes, it does properly mark a lot of junk mail, so I suppose technically it is detecting it. However, much of it is so obviously spam that there really is no reason to have me double check their work.

Take the supposed message in the photo above. In what world would UPS be sending a message with emoji in the subject line? Seriously? My wife might do that, but UPS?

pcunix-✅ 🔔🚚𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 (𝟭) 𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 📩📦 — -04–18–2024

That right there would confirm it, you’d think, but of course there is much more. A return address with a “htiahvuhxcjcuavcxtrsax.roighkixtbee.com” domain? There is no such domain, of course, but would UPS ever use such nonsense?

I gave ChatGPT 4 the raw email text and asked what it thought of it. I was not at all suprised by this response: