I’ve honestly been wondering if IT has started testing my personal email account to make sure I don’t fall for fishing scams.
Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
41–50 of 286 posts
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#42Yes loads of it
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#43I had trouble that for one of my addresses forwarding to my gmail account systematically all of them got sent to spam, even if it's literally a reply to a message that I sent from gmail and repeatedly set "not spam" at it. In the end the only thing that worked was to add an explicit filtering rule saying "never send to spam" for that address.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#44I 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?
These emails often include an attachment with an HTML file. My guess is depending on your client, it might just open a new browser window with the file (after it’s downloaded)
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#45I 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?
It is in an attached file. In my case the file is named
"Profitability 28388 .htm"
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#46I 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.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#47I was getting multiple emails like this per day a couple of weeks ago: https://i.imgur.com/m8nmpTr.png
But they seem to have stopped... for now. It was quite aggravating.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#48Yes. After literally years of never having to worry about gmail spam, really obvious stuff has been coming in for the last few months.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#49Yep, got one 3 days ago that matches your description perfectly. Russian sender name, HTML attachment about Elon/Bitcoin, etc.
Maybe these emails are coming from real users that got hacked? That's probably the easiest way to get past the filter.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#50Yep, got them for a few days last month, then they got caught properly