Yes I get at least one of those every day!
Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
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#222I am getting AustraIians are making miIIions from Bitcoin daily. Or so.
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#223The specific email you've listed here the format of a well known scam. There's been a tonne of this for filters to train on.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-elon-musk...
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#224YES! 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…
You are not the only one. Its been BAD for me for at least two months.
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#225Are you telling me that all those tough screening , bar raiser hiring and jazz can not produce a descent employee to solve this problem at google? I thought best of best of this universe works for FAANG. Amused.
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#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just made an account to let you know that this specific comment made me check my Promotions tab, which happened to contain… an invitation to schedule a software engineering interview. Would definitely have missed that if I didn’t get bored and read this HN thread midway through my lecture.
Life pro tip: most recruiters can't write emails that look like they came from humans rather than spambots. If you're actively looking for a job, check all your spam folders daily. I can't tell you how many actual job leads have ended up in mine.
I received recently one of the most bizarre emails via gmail: one email completely written in Chinese. I was curious precisely because it didn't go to the spam folder. After running it through Google translate it actually looked like a legit job offer. What a pity life is so short and I have so many responsibilities, it would have been cool to grab a laptop and just go.
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#227Yup, getting a few of these each day and manually marking them as Spam (to no avail). Not sure how GMAIL's filter is missing them. A simple regex matcher would catch 99% of those. It seems like even the gmail registration process for the SPAM accounts has been automated?
Some other examples: Чарльз Некрасов Фома Авдеев Порфирий Угримов <solodqez@g...
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#228Yes
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#229I have two accounts with google, one is personal and the other is through work. My personal account is pretty clean and rarely does anything get through that shouldn't. Occasionally I find something in the spam filter that shouldn't be there, usually password resets. My work account is seeing a big increase in "professional" spam. "Hey Guy, did you see my last email I sent . . .", "Hey Guy, we are the top network sec…
> clear email marketing sources like HubSpot and Exact Target. Why would those get bumped up? Those servers send a very high volume of legitimate marketing email that is not spam. Those services do a lot of policing within their platform to prevent or discourage use of their servers for actual spam. So when someone does manage to get spam out through that service, it often gets past more filters downstream. Theoretic…
I'm not sure if it should be trusted or not. It is fully unsolicited and I have zero relationship with them and never gave my info explicitly. Seems pretty spammy.
But what is much more interesting is Gmail is pushing the spam up by tagging it as important and it ends up at the top of my email list and not in the lower section of everything else. It should be in the spam folder with all the other junk, but out ranks internal JIRA tickets, daily sales report etc.
Could there be an implicit or explicit incentive? Am I the spam detection?
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#230I 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.
Came to write this - same here