How on earth this email passed the spam filter?
https://ibb.co/4PrjH9V
Recently I am getting more and more of these emails in my inbox.
Ask HN: Spammers got smarter or Gmail is no longer good?
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Re: Ask HN: Spammers got smarter or Gmail is no longer good?
#2I'm both getting really obvious spam in my mailbox and legit email in my spam box. It's been bad for a couple years. Outlook.com is still much worse for me though.
Re: Ask HN: Spammers got smarter or Gmail is no longer good?
#3I got two of the exact same spam messages in a gmail inbox this morning that was as of yet "unspoiled" and not in some spam email database. Those were probably the first in more than a year.
Re: Ask HN: Spammers got smarter or Gmail is no longer good?
#4Yes noticed as well. Not my inbox but my wife’s - the severity of which she is considering getting a new email address (& ditching gmail acct that is 10+ years old)
Re: Ask HN: Spammers got smarter or Gmail is no longer good?
#5Same problem here. And marking genuine emails as 'not spam' does not guarantee the mail will come through next time.
Re: Ask HN: Spammers got smarter or Gmail is no longer good?
#6I've never had spam issues with gmail until about 3-4 weeks ago..now I get spam every single day and I always mark as spam + block, but haven't seen any improvement.
My fastmail account has been a great alternative, but for many reasons I can't totally drop the gmail account
Re: Ask HN: Spammers got smarter or Gmail is no longer good?
#7I almost never get spam outside of the spam folder.
What I get instead is that half of the messages in the spam folder are not spam.
This is actually even worse than just not having spam filtering. I still have to pick the spam out manually and ignore/delete it, but now I have to check two folders every day instead of one.
Re: Ask HN: Spammers got smarter or Gmail is no longer good?
#8I almost never get spam outside of the spam folder. What I get instead is that half of the messages in the spam folder are not spam. This is actually even worse than just not having spam filtering. I still have to pick the spam out manually and ignore/delete it, but now I have to check two folders every day instead of one.
Same thing with Outlook web version. There is no way to disable the spam filter, and various workarounds suggested by users on forums tend to stop working randomly (e.g. creating a rule to move each message where you are the recipient to "Inbox" worked until recently but no more)
Re: Ask HN: Spammers got smarter or Gmail is no longer good?
#9these are all coming from gmail accounts aren't they
Re: Ask HN: Spammers got smarter or Gmail is no longer good?
#10This has been my experience as well over the last 2 years.