Wednesday, 25. May 2005
Spot the difference - part deux
Hot on the heels (well, warmish on the heels anyway) of this little conundrum, a non-spam email hit the spam folder of my Gmail account yesterday.This was only the second Gmail false positive I have ever seen. What made Gmail think it was spam?
- It comes from MBNA bank, and...
- ... well, nothing else actually - that's all.
I have generally found Gmail's spam filtering to be highly effective. After all, if Google can't place a random electronic document in a meaningful and relevant context, then who can?
This example serves only to illustrate the damage being done to on-line banking service providers by phishers. In this case the name alone is enough to imply guilt, at least so far as the world's most advanced search engine is concerned. Yet still these banks do almost nothing to protect themselves.
Free clue: SPF is designed to help you, phishing targets.
Received-SPF: neutral (gmail.com: ww.xx.yy.zz is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of MBNACreditCard@mbna-mail.co.uk)
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