Yes. Seems like a lot of it is coming from outlook.com
Ask HN: Is Gmail spam out of control for everyone else too?
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#22I've received a draft divorce settlement of an apparently high-profile NY couple, police reports, US Sea Cadet itineraries, bills among other things. I worry about emails intended for me being sent/copied to other people.
It's a definite GDPR violation at least.
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#23To me, Gmail's spam filtering is nothing short of magical. Weird that it isn't the same for everyone.
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#25Spam is one thing, but the amount of email I receive that's intended for other people is very worrying. I think it has to do with gmail ignoring periods in the username. It's definitely not spam or phishing either, it's really genuine emails that have either been sent to the wrong account or multiple accounts. I've received a draft divorce settlement of an apparently high-profile NY couple, police reports, US Sea Cad…
Here's Google's relevant support page: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10313
Re: Ask HN: Is Gmail spam out of control for everyone else too?
#26On average once a month, a legitimate email will be in the spam folder.
For me, Gmail's spam filtering is somewhat helpful and thus decent, but I would not consider it good.
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#27I started using Tutanota as my primary email provider a long time ago and just let Gmail fill up with garbage that I'm too lazy to delete (and also in hopes that all the garbage/spam messes with the email scanning that Google does, and wasting their storage space out of spite). There might be others like me that have similar Gmail inboxes, that may be due to making it so hard to bulk delete emails in the app.
So I'm sorry, maybe?
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#29Almost all my legitimate email goes to spam, while hyper-obvious 2000s type of spam "Hello sir, I want to send you 20,000,000 dollars" is common on my inbox. I now have the habit to check my Spam folder first.
It has become so stupid that even emails from THEIR OWN DAMN SERVICES, like transactional messages from GCP, go to Spam.
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#30I virtually never see spam in Gmail, and this is no exception. Had my account since the start, my email is used in many places, easy to find, etc. To me, Gmail's spam filtering is nothing short of magical. Weird that it isn't the same for everyone.
But recently (~3 months?), I’ve been experiencing something very similar to what the OP described.