People who use Gmail....

[ZoomStop]

Or is the spam finding ways to get around it now?

I get a lot of spam but up until about a week ago the spam filter would flag about 99% of it. Now I get 10 to 20 pieces of blantant spam a day in my inbox.
Is anyone else having this problem?

 

[xchangx]

yeah it's been the ones that are just images

 

[homercles337]

No. I have 3 gmail accounts none of which are a spam problem. Did you recently "give out" your gmail address?

 

[ZoomStop]

Originally posted by: homercles337
No. I have 3 gmail accounts none of which are a spam problem. Did you recently "give out" your gmail address?

Well my email address is out there in a lot of places. It just seems odd that while my total amount of spam has not gone up, the spam filter has been allowing more pieces though than normal.
i.e. I usually get 50 to 60 pieces of spam a day. It used to be that about 1 or 2 pieces every few days would make it to my inbox. For the past week or so it has been 10 to 20 pieces a day make it into the inbox.
And they seem to be a mix of image ones and non-image ones.

Well it may be just an issue I am seeing. I just wasn't sure if Google had changed their spam filter settings.

 

[alien42]

spammers are just now figuring out how to get past the gmail spam filters.

nature of the beast

i get a few spam e-mails in my inbox every few days

 

[LS20]

for a company as innovative as google they cant give me a little more flexibility with the gdamn filter settings? for example,. filter all mail that contain *.gif attachments

 

[Minjin]

No, I find the spam filter to be excellent. Maybe once a week an email gets through to my inbox. I wish they would improve the overall "master" spam filter though so I don't have to purge 100 emails from my spam box every day.

 

[mzkhadir]

yes it has gone to crap

 

[iamaelephant]

I get about 1 spam mail per month, and GMail always catches them.

 

[destrekor]

my friends used my gmail account on a lot of those sites that you just KNOW will hand out spam... will my spam folder tends to have a double digit number at the end of every day (i empty it numerous times per day, with each time typically flushing 2-10 pieces of spam)... and occasionally I will get mail that slips the filter, but as I said, receiving possible upwards of 20+ a day and a handful or less per week that slip through seems reasonable to me. some weeks get more, some weeks get less. i stated the average.

 

[Kirby64]

I get tons of spam to my gmail acct, but it all lands in the spam box. Rarely, if ever, get spam in the inbox.

 

[jfall]

No problems so far. I do get about 50-100 spam e-mails a day to my gmail account, but 99% of them are sorted properly to the spam folder.

Gmail has one of the best spam filters I have ever seen

 

[LordSnailz]

yup, I'm getting a few more than usual in my inbox

 

[James Bond]

All spam used to be put in my 'spam' box, but within the last month or so, about 5/day have been getting into my inbox.

 

[RaiderJ]

I've seen a small increase, but nothing major. I get one or two a week I think. However, my spam folder has a couple thousand messages. Crazy!

 

[clamum]

Hmmm... not here. It all goes in my Spam folder automatically.

 

[CraKaJaX]

Originally posted by: alien42
spammers are just now figuring out how to get past the gmail spam filters.

nature of the beast

i get a few spam e-mails in my inbox every few days

Ditto.

 

[imported_cheapdude]

There that jerk at work that everyone hates, some helpdesk kid decides to mess with him by going into his gmail account's spam filter, select all and click not spam.

 

[fLum0x]

i am still good with my 2 accounts.

 

[thirtythree]

I've gotten a few spam e-mails over the past month. No biggie.

 

[robphelan]

Originally posted by: mzkhadir
yes it has gone to crap

 

[Mellman]

Originally posted by: robphelan

Originally posted by: mzkhadir
yes it has gone to crap

 

[chambersc]

Originally posted by: Mellman

Originally posted by: robphelan

Originally posted by: mzkhadir
yes it has gone to crap

agreed.

 

[FilmCamera]

No it hasn't gone to crap. I've had my account with them since they started offering the service. One of the first to start using it. In that amount of time I think I have gotten maybe 5 pieces that have gotten through. It catches everything else.

 

[Aikouka]

I've had no problem. Gmail even filters out the Japanese spam that I get >_> (that's what I get for having aikouka at gmail dot com).