For me, it just goes in cycles. For a couple of weeks, I'll get these spam emails from "Dick's Sporting Goods" telling me I won a chance at a Yeti cooler or something like that. These emails will make it through gmail's filter for a while, then they catch them, then they figure out how to get through again. That particular set of emails seems to be the only spam that ever makes it through the filter, but the cycle has been happening for quite a while now.
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#22The crazy thing is that on the last year I found emails from Google, and Apple, in the spam folder. Apple's were invoices... of which I get a couple a month (iTunes purchases, subscriptions). Google's I think were announcements for services, etc. tied to a Workspaces work account.
I can't think of no actions I did (in terms of identifying email as spam) that could suggest I might consider emails from Google or Apple, or any emails with that content, as spam. I mark things regularly, but almost always actual spam / phishing, or commercial mass emails from companies I have no relation with (banks, etc.)
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#23Thats rare, I have my GMail address publicly available on the internet and haven't gotten a single spam email in my life
John Dvorak, is that you?
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#24Right now, it's actually not that bad for me, but I (and others) experienced something similar a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28635313
Same. It’s gotten much better for me since then, it used to be 2-3/day, now it’s ~1/month.
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#25Happening to me on Outlook.
Full image emails that are all too obviously spam.
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#26Same thing for me, last couple of weeks I've seen a few emails appear, before that I've not seen inbox spam for ages. I also started getting Drive share notification spam around the same time, until I turned notifications off, but new random spam shares keep appearing if I check the app.
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#27Same here, got 3 spam emails yesterday. It's been months since I saw that.
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#28Thats rare, I have my GMail address publicly available on the internet and haven't gotten a single spam email in my life
It started in the last year. Before pretty much every single spam mail was filtered, now 1-2 per week still make it through.
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#29I constantly receive the same kind of gmail spam: there's a package for me. Half a year already, 3-4 a day, from random addresses like rp.6sgzBKV9UH@mail.4t2d3uxkxo.com / over corpegg.com whatever that is.
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#30Might be less to do with whats happening with spam filtering and more to do with the evolution and constant arms race spammers are a part of.