How Spammers Avoid the Gmail Spam Filter through Google Forms
Gmail is very effective at filtering spam emails but spammers seem to have figured out a new way to bypass the spam filters and send emails that land right in the user’s inbox. The emails are sent through Google Forms and because the messages originate from Google’s own email servers, they do not get caught in the spam filters. 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. Now the spammers can simply open the Google Form, fill in the recipient’s email address and hit the submit button. Google Forms will automatically email a copy of the form response, including all the pictures and links contained in the original form, to the email address that was entered