Great news!

Recently we have released a new version of our Android app. It is now available in the Google Play Store. Please update (or download from the Play Store if you don’t have it already) to enjoy the latest and greatest of the world’s best spam filter app!

Your feedback is more than welcome, please do not hesitate to comment below or drop us a support ticket.

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Great news!
From now on, our users may choose recurrent payment as a method of Spamdrain subscription renewal.
Intrigued? Here are the details 🙂

Previously the only way to renew Spamdrain subscription was using manual procedure with several steps: go the account page –> choose the needed options to renew –> land on our payments systems page and renew your subscription manually. You had to repeat this action each time when your subscription was about to expire.

What has changed
The manual renewal method has not changed at all, but the new saving-time-method has been added.
Now you can choose the suitable payment method upon sign up or any time at your Account page, save the details and we will do the rest on a monthly or yearly basis.

Advantages
– Recurring payments are available for all customers.
– You choose the needed payment method once, save it and you are all set.
– You are notified by email each time when renewal is processed.
– No need to enter the same details each time when your subscription comes to an end.
– No need to remember that renewal date is coming.

Just in case, you can stop auto-renewal any time if you wish.

Feel free to check the new payment workflow here.

Find more details at our subscription and billing help desk section here.

If you have any feedback or comments you are very welcome to drop them here:

feedback@spamdrain.com

Thanks!

The day has come. Thursday, September 19th 2019, was announced as the day Apple would launch the iOS 13 update. However, this is not going to be yet another of those “everything you should now about iOS 13” posts. Instead, we’ve got even more exciting news for you. We have released a new version of our Spamdrain app for iOS!!! YAY!!!

We’ve put a lot of love into this release. Here are some of the highlights:

• The app now takes advantage of the larger screens of the iPhone X and later.
• The app’s download size has been optimized and is now considerably smaller.

The app is available now in the App Store. Please update (or download from the App Store if you don’t have it already) to enjoy the latest and greatest of the world’s best spam filter app!

Your feedback is more than welcome, please do not hesitate to comment below or drop us a support ticket.

Thanks for reading!

We have already passed the equator of 2019 year and heading to a bit colder part of the year. It’s good that our spamsters are not affected by weather and continue working hard regardless of the season. First half of 2019 did bring us lots of old spam waves and phishing messages and some new of course. However, if we look back into 2018 and compare results of the same period, we can see that the number of spam messages compared to valid ones overall is descending.

Chain letters, porn spam, money scams and email spoofing were the most popular new spam messages along with old school fraud and lottery winning ones. Looking back into statistics of 2018 spam filtering we can see that there were 170 M messages filtered during first half of last year and only 73 M (43%) of them were classified as valid messages.
Yes, that’s correct 97 M messages were blocked by our Spamsters which is 57% of the total number. A big amount of spam, you might think, but the good news is that garbage stays in your blocked list. Another visible trend compared to previous years is that the spam part is getting lower. This year first half brings us the following numbers:

Filtered: 181 M

Valid: 108 M (60%)

Spam: 73 M (40%)

As you can see this year numbers of all filtered messages are almost the same as the last year first half. However, valid messages beaten the spam ones – yay! According to our statistics we can see March is being “the most spamming month” while May brought us the biggest amount of messages to filter.

We can also see that starting from May till now the amount of spam messages is decreasing a bit. Probably due to high season of vacation not only for recipients of spam messages but for senders as well 🙂

Let’s wait a few months till December to see how this year charts will end up.

Thanks for reading and stay tuned!

1 Hassle-free signup – instant sign up with no credit card required for your convenience. Your spamster starts cleaning up your inbox immediately, so you can focus on the important things! The 14 days free trial period gives you plenty of time to get to know your spamsters . To tell you the truth, some people don’t even wait for the end of trial period and switch to the paid version.

2 It is cloud based. There is no need to install any desktop applications. Just visit the Spamdrain website in order to sign in and that’s it – your filtering will be working all the time.

3 Pocket spamster – carry your spamster with you on Android and iOS.  . We have free Android and iOS apps for you. The same filtering on your mobile device in one tap! Easy to use, handy and polished apps per your spam filtering needs!

Are there are any other reasons you like Spamdrain for? Let us know in the comments below!

We are happy to announce that a new beta version of our Android app is waiting for you to try out! You can now be among the first ones to see the new changes and help us test it on your device.

If you have previously joined our beta program the update should already be ready for you to download from within the Google Play Store app on your device. To join the beta program and get access to this and future beta releases of Spamdrain click the link below and sign in using the Google account you use on your device:

Join the Spamdrain beta program

This beta release includes bug fixes, improvements and a polished look. We will continue working on our mobile app and you can expect new updates the coming months as we work our way towards a final release to be published to all users in the Google Play Store.

Feel free to contact us if you would like to provide us with feedback or report any issues you run into. Please send your feedback to

support@spamdrain.com

Have a great day and stay tuned!

In this article we gathered 5 the most dangerous email attachment types. It’s a good thing they stay in the blocked list and not in your Inbox. Don’t know what’s a blocked list? Well, this means that you are not a Spamdrain user yet and you should definitely sign up here: 

https://spamdrain.com

So what stays there, in the blocked list? The most common file is the .PDF one. Your favorite newsletter, guide for some device or any other .pdf file you would like to download from the email message could be harmful to your device. Make sure the message containing the file is from the trusted source and double check before downloading it. 

The other one is a .ZIP file, the easiest way to pack a lot of files into one archive. Of course, one of the unpacked files could be from the bad guy, waiting for you to click on it. By the way, not just the .ZIP extension could be harmful. There is .7Z well known archive extension that could also contain phishing or any other harmful files. 

The next one is a Microsoft Office based file. The most popular are the .DOC or .XLSX extensions but it could also be any other Microsoft Office document based extension. 

We won’t be telling you how the opened software installs virus applications or how it tracks as much sensitive data as possible. We do not want you to remove the message once you found one of the mentioned extensions file. The main point of the article is to warn you once you see the suspicious attachment. Once you discover something wrong – proceed with caution and double check each click. 

The best way to secure yourself and your family is to refer to our recommendation from the beginning regarding sign up for Spamdrain. Our spamsters will do the rest. 

Thanks for reading!

Stay spam free 😉