[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Gmail having spam problems for anybody else?
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Ask HN: Gmail having spam problems for anybody else?
This week I had 7 spam E-Mails actually hitting my Gmail inbox.
Obviously reported them all and they are still coming through. Now
the theme changed from FedEx to Viagra and it keeps coming. I was
with this service for 15 years and can not recall a year I had as
many spam Mails hitting my inbox in the whole year. Is this an
isolated incident or does anybody else have problems. I can not
find anything reporting this so maybe I fucked up and spilled my
address to one of the more skilled networks.
Author : simlan
Score : 29 points
Date : 2023-02-03 19:27 UTC (3 hours ago)
| sp332 wrote:
| Yes.
| https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
|
| And it has spread to malware in ads as well.
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34641025
| simlan wrote:
| Thanks for that. There is some mention of spam but others
| complaining that Gmail is too tight with their filters... Maybe
| they are re-adjusting.
| sp332 wrote:
| Being tighter or looser doesn't help much if the filters
| aren't tuned right. You can get too much spam in your inbox
| _and_ too much good email in your spam folder at the same
| time.
| IG_Semmelweiss wrote:
| I have seen this.
|
| The issue is that you get added to some sort of list. The sender
| is from a spam domain that keeps changing so it cannot be
| blocked.
|
| Im not sure how it happened. But a loved one is affected. I have
| the persons email open on my pc so I monitor it. My loved one
| receives phising emails from Norton , FedEx etc impersonators
| constantly. Script is "his subscription (package) etc will not
| renew unless he pays". If he replies, then they call and take the
| cc over the phone.
|
| The person is very gullible to these sort of emails. Ive tried to
| get them deleted before they hit the inbox.
|
| It is relentless. Ive set up a long list of email filters... but
| some still get thru.
|
| Im not a developer but i did take many CS classes at school and
| coded in java. I know how tonuse filters . I've tried to whois
| and tried going to the hoster, or the email provider, to get this
| sender banned. Its usually an entity in Poland or Ukraine that
| chooses to let this happen.
|
| id love to known What else I can do
| mikequinlan wrote:
| I have set up a whitelist for a friend. Only emails from people
| she expects to receive emails from end up in her inbox;
| everything else goes into a 'to be reviewed' folder.
| IceHegel wrote:
| Has been bad for the last 2 years for me. Used to have 0 and now
| I get 5 or 6 obvious spam messages in my inbox a week.
| alexgrover wrote:
| Yep, been having similar issues for ~6 months.
| shortcake27 wrote:
| Yeah I've been getting loads of spam hitting my inbox. It's
| actually hilarious, email addresses such as
| "whhdjsjwjsjbxjejwjabdjeje@mail.ru" with the subject "Free Yeti
| Hopper" and yet Google can't identify it as spam.
|
| The good news is that in my case, there are patterns I can
| filter. I've set up about 30 filters so far to automatically
| delete such emails. Works great. I recommend using exact matching
| (double quotes) to avoid false positives. I really need to move
| away from Gmail, but filters are _awesome_.
| simlan wrote:
| Interesting my cases supposedly came from some .edu or other
| educational related TLDs at first then it devolved into
| randoms... Well I will need to monitor and maybe do my own
| rules as well.
| IG_Semmelweiss wrote:
| Can you pls explain how you filter? In my experience the sender
|
| whhdjsjwjsjbxjejwjabdjeje@mail.ru
|
| Is never the same. Not the domain. Not the sender. How do you
| filter a sender that keeps changing into random characters, if
| the subject or content is also changing?
| Euphorbium wrote:
| I too am getting the same kind of spam in my inbox. And it is
| coming from gmail addresses, or at least appears like that.
| Seems like hello world difficulty machine learning filter
| should be catching those with 99% success. My theory is that
| google decided to boot me off the service as I am unprofitable
| and use up their free resources to the fullest.
| moosedev wrote:
| Something radically changed for me 7-10 days ago, wherein certain
| non-spam but clearly not-inbox-worthy emails are now consistently
| hitting the Inbox, often with the "Important according to Google
| magic" flag set.
|
| Examples: A clearly promotional email from a manufacturer
| announcing new products, a special offer from a hotel I stayed at
| once 7 years ago, _every single breaking news email from the
| Seattle Times_.
|
| FWIW, I'm not seeing proper spam by the old-school definition
| breaching the Inbox (Viagra, replica Rolex, et al). I guess
| that's good.
|
| Still feels like something significant broke very recently, but
| tbh I'd already lost faith in Gmail's classification after seeing
| how many genuine emails end up in Spam the last 3-5 years. It's
| particularly painful to watch in light of how far other
| applications of ML have advanced since ole' Gmail was state-of-
| the-art. In other words: shouldn't Google (disclosure: my former
| employer) be much, much better at this?
| Operyl wrote:
| Yup, I have seen a significant uptick of spam on my Google
| Workspaces accounts.
| blakesterz wrote:
| Nope, not any changes here, but I'm on the paid thing, Workspaces
| or whatever they call it this month. I've seen other people
| writing about it, but I'm not seeing any misses at all.
| sysadmin21 wrote:
| Yes, quite a few emails which are exceedingly clearly spam.
| simlan wrote:
| "fedex" by any chance ?
| josefresco wrote:
| Seems like an uptick. I'm getting 4-5 now daily that are passing
| the spam filter whereas previously it would be 4-5 a week. Use
| both Google Workspace and _free_ Gmail.
| nubinetwork wrote:
| I don't get a lot of spam to my Gmail surprisingly, but I had one
| 3 days ago in my inbox with only a picture attached inline...
| based on the filename, it sounds like an invoice scam (I didn't
| open it).
| simlan wrote:
| That is exactly my experience as well. Nothing noticeable for
| years and then a quite obvious one and it kept coming after
| that.
| pcdoodle wrote:
| And yet we run into situations where customers gmail us and we
| can't reply. Gmail is not email.
| wetpaws wrote:
| A huge burst of spam recently, although it got a bit better for
| the last couple of weeks. Even had to file a bug report/complaint
| to G.
| juliennakache wrote:
| Same here I keep getting the same spam from ACE Hardware. I've
| been reporting it a couple of months now but they keep coming in.
| It's weird.
| manuelabeledo wrote:
| Geek Squad "invoices", anyone?
|
| It is mildly infuriating that I have to periodically check my
| spam folder, looking for things like insurance claim updates,
| credit card bills, etc., yet the filter is bad enough to let
| emails from addresses like "whatever_somenumber@gmail.com"
| through, with the most outrageous PDF documents attached.
| nubinetwork wrote:
| I get those on my ISP email, but sadly nowhere else.
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