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Now, I mostly don't mind it, but getting credit reports swept off my inbox is starting to get annoying.
I've been getting 2-3 spam emails/day and for many years received 0/day.
I've recently had the opposite problem. I had an external host receive email for a domain and then forward to gmail. The message envelope is changed, and SRS records are updated to be from the forwarding domain and DKIM is valid. However, over the last 2-weeks or so, Gmail has been hard rejecting the majority of the mail at SMTP time, which has caused a big pain! I really wish I could say "trust all mail from this ma…
Same 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.
Very strange, seems like an obvious security hole to just allow anyone to pop up notifications on my phone like that.
To offer a singular data point, contrary to other posters here, I am not seeing this at all, and I pretty actively use my two Gmail addresses which have been active since 2005. My spam inbox regularly gets correctly categorized spam, and important emails still correctly land in my inbox.
I'm having the opposite problem. The spam filter keeps marking things as spam, when they clearly are not, and I have no way of telling it that they aren't. Now, I mostly don't mind it, but getting credit reports swept off my inbox is starting to get annoying.
Of course, do that once, and you'll immediately start getting more spam, but that's another problem.
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 ha…
Tangent: I've always wondered if forwarding spam (I don't use Gmail at all) to abuse@google.com works at all. Does marking spam from Gmail as spam count as reporting it? Or is Google one of those companies that either completely ignores spam complaints and/or makes spam reporting only work if you fill out a pain in the ass web abuse form?