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

by par on 4/26/23, 3:34 PM with 9 comments

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.

  • by mtmail on 4/26/23, 3:45 PM

    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.

  • by codegeek on 4/26/23, 7:18 PM

    Yea I keep getting emails like this. "Ace Hardware <smile@yourn.voicejgtjut.cfd>" where the email is always some random garbage.

  • by bell-cot on 4/26/23, 3:40 PM

    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.

  • by rejectfinite on 4/26/23, 7:34 PM

    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.

  • by cripblip on 4/26/23, 7:44 PM

    Definitely noticed anonymous spam via 33mail.com recently

  • by beginnings on 4/27/23, 11:25 PM

    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

  • by 64operator on 4/27/23, 12:34 AM

    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.