keep reporting it and maybe they'll catch on lol or they'll read this.
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?
#272Yes, I keep getting a bunch of “Your GEICO quote 1234” variations. My thought is spam is like weather fronts at this point: while it feels like that subject line should be obviously flagged up, there is probably some other storm of porn bot spam that is causing the machine learning or filters to bend in just such a way that the car insurance spam can seep through.
Same here, I flag them as spam but gmail never puts them into the spam folder.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#273Earlier quoted context omitted.
The only reliable low maintenance solution is to get your own domain with a catch all mail service. Then for every email interaction with a 3rd party you make a unique address like amazondotcom3823@yourdomain.com. You can then just add rules for each incoming mail domain to send them to a junk folder, especially if it was was a one time transaction and subsequent emails are just going to be marketing junk. It also le…
> Then for every email interaction with a 3rd party you make a unique address Does that work for you? Have you caught many companies sharing your address? I’ve been making unique addresses for a decade, and it has been a complete failure. I haven’t caught any companies sharing them, and it hasn’t stopped spam in the slightest. I’m not sure where spammers get my mail email address from, but they do, and so far I’m not…
Same observation here. My first two email addresses were ruined by what I presumed were data leaks (I was getting hundreds of spam emails a day in the hotmail era). Since using unique addresses, I've only had two compromised with spam. The original email addresses still are firehoses of spam though.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#274YES! I posted about this two weeks ago, one person agreed but the post never got any traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28437472 I haven't heard anything about this when I asked colleagues / IRL friends... I wonder what is going on over at Google
Well that's good to hear, I can't find any mention about this problem anywhere and I was starting to think that I was being specifically targeted. Except for the last one, all the calls to action seem to be crypto related, but I don't know if that's relevant to the origin of this attack. Perhaps it's just the most successful way of getting clicks nowadays (?). It's baffling that google are letting these ones slip. Ev…
It is happening to me too, starting about a week ago.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#275I 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.
me too, and even more mind-boggling is important emails send right to "Trash." I have caught actually important, personal emails that were sent directly to my Trash bin. It's infuriating.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#276Earlier quoted context omitted.
The only reliable low maintenance solution is to get your own domain with a catch all mail service. Then for every email interaction with a 3rd party you make a unique address like amazondotcom3823@yourdomain.com. You can then just add rules for each incoming mail domain to send them to a junk folder, especially if it was was a one time transaction and subsequent emails are just going to be marketing junk. It also le…
This would be illegal in Germany where you must take notice of every email accepted by your email server. The junk folder doesn’t help because you would need to read through it nonetheless.
I'm not sure what German law forces Germans to read emails to a personal account which is the context of this thread.
If you are a corporation using gmail then you will likely have emails going into a shared mailbox or public folder and have team members triage emails as sales lead, spam, upset customer, etc.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#277Yes, and somehow they're also marked as important even though it's from an unknown contact with none of my contacts CC'd.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#278Yes, I get the same emails
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#279Yes, I am getting lots of those recently. It has some Russian roots, senders names are Cyrillic and sounds Russian. I think someone found a loophole in Gmail antispam.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#280I got 2 of these today, yet I can’t even send myself email from my own domain through Twilio without google silently dropping it from transit. I would be happy to get into spam, at least that way I could add custom filters.