Ask HN: Anyone else noticing an uptick in spam on Gmail?

Posted by par on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @11:34AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Seems like the amount of spam I am getting is massively up in recent months. Tons of pure spam, but also a very significant amount of email lists I definitely never subscribed to. I keep clicking 'report spam' but I feel like that button does nothing at all.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else noticing an uptick in spam on Gmail? by bell-cot on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @11:40AM (#35715503)

Spam to your own Gmail account, or spam from Gmail accounts?

I don't really have one of the former, but have been pretty disgusted with the quantity of the latter for quite a while now.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else noticing an uptick in spam on Gmail? by mtmail on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @11:45AM (#35715592)

That gets asked frequently https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&query=ask+gmail+s...

Best theory I've read is that sometimes Gmail needs to let some unclassified spam through and have users report it to get feedback on an algorithm change.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else noticing an uptick in spam on Gmail? by codegeek on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @03:18PM (#35718632)

Yea I keep getting emails like this. "Ace Hardware <[email protected]>" where the email is always some random garbage.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else noticing an uptick in spam on Gmail? by _xerces_ on Thursday April 27, 2023 @12:18PM (#35730388)

I got four of those over a two day period, random domains but always from smilie or similar. Every time I marked as spam, but they kept making it to my inbox. No idea why as there must be thousands of people telling Google that those are spam.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else noticing an uptick in spam on Gmail? by rejectfinite on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @03:34PM (#35718809)

Yes but for Outlook.com/Hotmail/Live aka Microsoft consumer mail.

My 15 year old email is finally on some spam list and somehow Norton, Macafee, Fedex, Office 365 and Loan scams can come straight into the inbox.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else noticing an uptick in spam on Gmail? by cripblip on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @03:44PM (#35718946)

Definitely noticed anonymous spam via 33mail.com recently

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else noticing an uptick in spam on Gmail? by CommitSyn on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @04:46PM (#35719765)

Hmm, I've had a number of legitimate customers using 33mail recently.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else noticing an uptick in spam on Gmail? by 64operator on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @08:34PM (#35721779)

For many years now. Heck I created a gmail account with a long, random address, logged in a couple months later and it was full of spam.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else noticing an uptick in spam on Gmail? by beginnings on Thursday April 27, 2023 @07:25PM (#35735787)

check if your email has been leaked somehere - https://haveibeenpwned.com/

the only email i get a lot of spam on was in a data breach

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