Yes, it started in the last 3-4 days. I was going to ask on here if there were any high-profile data breaches recently. I never used Epik.
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?
#32Yes, for me, gmail spam getting into my inbox increased from zero to one or two per day a few weeks ago.
It's very obvious; I'm sure the gmail team must know about it. I'd be curious to know whether they're planning on returning the spam detection back to the previous low false-negative rate.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#33Yes, and don't forget to check your spam folder regularly because a bunch of legit email ends up in there too.
Couldn't believe how many legit emails were in there. Missed a handful of important emails and who knows how many more, since they're deleted after 30 days.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#34Yep same issue here.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#35Yes, but also getting obvious non-spam going to spam, likewise with it being categorized as Promotions. It got to a point that I don't filter by Category now, I just have a standard 'Inbox' with Starred at the top.
Oops. I forgot to negate my if test.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#36Yes, exactly the same type of stuff. And the other day a legitimate email from a company I was interviewing with (from an email address I have had two way communication with) got marked as a promotion.
Something's up here.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#37I just got one like this 5 minutes ago. They are getting clever i saw that they are embedding this. onload="document.location.replace(window.atob('aHR0cHM6Ly9ibG9jay1jaGFpbi1ib3gudGsvbXpwaWwvP3RldHRoa3Yg'));" Which if you decode you get a strange domain. I assume gmail only looks for urls which in this case is not visible without decoding it
I thought you couldn't embed scripts/iframes into a html email?
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#38Yes, it seemed to coincide with a notification I got that my Email was exposed on the dark web as a result of some hack. I forget which one but it was about 6-8 weeks ago I think.
I keep marking them as spam but more keep coming. About 1-2 per day and of varying content but similar visual layout. 90s era spam is a good description.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#39+1
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#40Yes, for me, gmail spam getting into my inbox increased from zero to one or two per day a few weeks ago. It's very obvious; I'm sure the gmail team must know about it. I'd be curious to know whether they're planning on returning the spam detection back to the previous low false-negative rate.
>I'm sure the gmail team must know about it.
Of course they do. Its from all of the phone calls they've been receiving from their help lines and helpfully answering? Or maybe the bank of humans they have responding to emails sent to support.