Hello, Guys welcome back today you will learn how Spammers Avoid the Gmail Spam Filter through Google Forms. How spammers use a simple setting in Google Forms to send junk emails through Google’s own mailing servers and completely avoid the Gmail spam filters.
Spammers appear to have worked out a new technique to avoid spam filters and send emails that land straight in the user’s inbox, despite the fact that Gmail is quite successful at filtering spam emails. The emails are sent via Google Forms, and because they are sent from Google’s own email servers, they are not captured in spam filters.
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Here’s how spam emails are sent through Google Forms.
- A public form is created with Google Forms.
- The form creator uploads images for the various question fields and also adds links to spam websites in the form.
- Inside the Form settings, they turn on the option to “Collect Email Addresses” including the option to send “Response receipts” when a new form is submitted.
Spammers can now simply open the Google Form, enter the recipient’s email address, and click the submit button.
Google Forms will email a copy of the form response, including any images and links from the original form, to the email address specified in the form.
Here’s an example of an email from Google Forms that effortlessly evaded spam filters.
How to Block Spam from Google Forms
Gmail filters can assist you in preventing spam emails from Google Forms from arriving in your mailbox.
The sender’s email address appears in all pre-filled Google Forms emails as follows:
forms-receipts-noreply@google.comYou can create a filter in Gmail that will automatically delete emails that have Google Forms as the sender.
You can also access the form link from the email and click the “Report Abuse” option to report the form to Google. However, that is unlikely to be a successful technique because spammers may always switch to an other Google account.