Yes, I noticed the same thing the past few weeks, and it seems increasingly bad. I'm really surprised because 10+ years before this I don't recall even a single spam getting past the filter.
Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
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Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#142I'm getting a lot more spam (and by that, I mean like 3-5 per week, but before recently in was 0), and they also have the same format, but a different one from yours.
A random IP is the first text in it, and a vast majority say they originate from .co.uk. It's generally trying to get me to participate in a survey, or I've won a card from Home Depot (a big DIY supply/hardward chain in the US).
(edit) I just got one of the Russian ones noted by the OP; first one I've gotten so far.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#143yea spam with content like fsdboijhgghwghQIUXXXQQEWR even in the subject line getting through.
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#144I have exactly the opposite problem: tons of legitimate email is getting flagged as Spam by GMail. It's now happening regularly with emails from people in my contacts with whom I regularly exchange messages . Mind-boggling. I know spam filtering is a hard problem, but these are just obvious misses.
Same. I'd gotten out of the habit of checking my Spam folder, having trusted Gmail to get it "correct enough" for years. But I looked recently and was amazed/horrified how much legitimate email was in there, including a friend's birthday event invitation that I would otherwise have missed. 20% of what is in my "Spam" folder today is what I'd call "spam" in the classical 90s/2000s-internet sense. Obvious trash/scam st…
I receive a fair amount of legit appearing promotional email from real organizations, but organizations that I have not dealt with. In most cases the recipient appears to be a real person. In one case, I was able to verify the person is real, lives and operates a small business within a couple of hundred kilometers of where I live, and regularly frequents my city. Yet I refuse to use unsubscribe links in those cases since, aside from that one person, I have no way to differentiate between sophisticated spam and companies who don't verify email addresses on file. So the spam button it is.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#145Yes, I had about 4 messages in Inbox with CC list and an .html attachment, but they were all complete random letters.
Subject: X 6673 B 11 KZPV 5 V 6 BO 720 XGWH 8
Body: EC 3753 YK 6321 UXNS 487
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#146I have also gotten these in the past week or so, same Cyrillic text, same Elon bitcoin attachments.
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#147For the last year or so I've noticed an increasing amount of my legitimate professional interactions going into my "Promotions" tab in Gmail. The effect of which has been, after discovering a few mishaps of this sort, to now regularly and meticulously go through a massive pile of "Promotions" just to make sure I haven't missed something legitimately urgent or important. Prior to Google's classification errors produci…
Its actually worth going through and unsubscribing to those promo emails just to make this easier.
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#148For the last year or so I've noticed an increasing amount of my legitimate professional interactions going into my "Promotions" tab in Gmail. The effect of which has been, after discovering a few mishaps of this sort, to now regularly and meticulously go through a massive pile of "Promotions" just to make sure I haven't missed something legitimately urgent or important. Prior to Google's classification errors produci…
This is an unusual problem that I also witness over and over again. The unusual part is that I'll get same-source emails (eg: mailing lists that I follow) scattered between two different tabs, so it is like Google only forgets where they go sometimes.
I drag them to the proper tab each time, but it doesn't seem to fix anything.
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#149I have two accounts with google, one is personal and the other is through work. My personal account is pretty clean and rarely does anything get through that shouldn't. Occasionally I find something in the spam filter that shouldn't be there, usually password resets. My work account is seeing a big increase in "professional" spam. "Hey Guy, did you see my last email I sent . . .", "Hey Guy, we are the top network sec…
> clear email marketing sources like HubSpot and Exact Target. Why would those get bumped up?
Those servers send a very high volume of legitimate marketing email that is not spam. Those services do a lot of policing within their platform to prevent or discourage use of their servers for actual spam. So when someone does manage to get spam out through that service, it often gets past more filters downstream. Theoretically, Hubspot or Exact Target will get notifications and shut down those senders so Google trusts them, gives them some leeway and doesn't ban the servers outright.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#150Yes! Thank you!!
The most obvious 2000s era spam is coming straight to my inbox.