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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 t
by kace91 5y ago
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. Even marking some as spam does nothing to prevent new ones from coming.
- johnmaguire 5y agoI've also been getting the crypto spam in my inbox, usually as one of a ton of recipients. e.g: Title: Rc 2 Xq 1677 Riyw 532 Sender: Чеслав Сальников <zeqiyic@gmail.com> Body: 3688 867 8383 4 3 784 Attachment: Free Bitcoin - DELL .html
- n4r9 5y agoSame with me, been happening for a couple of weeks now. Sometimes multiple times a day. Just yesterday I had the following: Title: V10 YU L2 RUO T778 ZRD Sender: Тельман Кудряшов sefovuz@gmail.com Body: 3484 2 0812 61 3 Attachment: Blockchain Prizes 3883 .htm
- natch 5y ago> It's baffling that google are letting these ones slip. Why would it be baffling? Google’s spam filters have always been extremely low quality, even mistaking email generated by Google itself as spam. They simply don’t have the pride of craftsmanship to improve it.
- encoderer 5y agoYou live in a different universe than I do. Fascinating. In my world, spam was a true problem that was killing email. Truly killing it. You would have to create a new address every 6 months to stay ahead of the spam and have a functioning inbox. Very different world. Gmail fixed that. And for me, there have been issues from time to time and in fact i am getting this very spam myself, but gmail permanently stopped the hordes for me in 2004. Now, don’t get me started on their insane categorization choices.
- natch 5y ago>Gmail fixed that. Hardly. They didn't invent the tech. And they didn't perfect it. They haven't even tried. The evidence is in my Spam folder. I mean they mark messages they themselves originate as dangerous spam. "Dangerous" being their word, not mine. Screenshot from within the last hour: https://imgur.com/IjQUGaY https://imgur.com/IjQUGaY I was in that earlier world too. They papered the problem over, a little. But no, they didn't fix it.
- bwy 5y agoJust curious if you would post a little more of the screenshot? I don't think there's enough in the image for me to tell if it's from a spam address or not.
- natch 5y agoIt’s from Google. The return address is: Google Alerts - googlealerts-noreply (at) google.com
- User23 5y agoI really want an inbox where i never see what anyone wrote if they don’t pay me the current price of a first class letter.
- actuallyalys 5y agoSpam wasn't killing email for me, but Gmail was a noticeable step up for sure. I do wonder how much was innovation on their part and how much of it was simply executing the same filtering techniques really well. Now, my impression is that all of the well-regarded email providers do a good job of handling spam—it's no longer a differentiator. (Although it might start to be again if Google has genuinely let their guard down.) Fastmail does a good job in my experience.
- apple4ever 5y agoYou are not the only one. Its been BAD for me for at least two months.
- ambivalents 5y agoIt is happening to me too, starting about a week ago.