Filter Russian Spam in Gmail
If you’re like me then you get a lot of Russian spam in Gmail. There has been no way to filter it out, until now. I found that if you create a filter to search for emails that have the words “в OR и” you will filter out a lot of the Russian spam.
Though it would be nice to filter out all non-english emails, considering I don’t deal with anyone who doesn’t speak english. Though I imagine if I sold things on ebay that could be a small problem, but I don’t.
Source: Dr Nic (5th comment)
Wrote on October 2, 2008 @ 7:54 am
What a brilliant suggestion. Had never considered using filters on Cyrillic characters. Thanks!
Wrote on October 13, 2008 @ 12:09 pm
This is brilliant. I put it on my server and they are all getting blocked. Thanks for the tip!
Wrote on March 20, 2009 @ 6:05 am
awesome, thank you.
Wrote on March 29, 2009 @ 6:36 pm
I use this approach for the chines stuff too, I use the character 的 in the gmail filter.
Wrote on April 22, 2009 @ 9:21 am
Thanks for the suggestion
Wrote on July 20, 2009 @ 7:22 am
y’all are frigging geniuses!