Dozens of spam messages daily now

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• acme401@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The moment the Cheeto was back in the WH the amount of spam I get has increased exponentially. The scammers know they have free reign.

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  • FenrirIII@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s gotta be this. The FCC or whomever used to stop this is gone. And Google is complicit. These emails are coming from hundreds of gibberish gmail accounts.

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    • radix@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Remember when the GOP sued google because its spam filters were too effective?

      nbcnews.com/…/republican-committee-sues-google-em…

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• perishthethought@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m not, no.

  But yes, hold them responsible for their crimes in all cases.

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not the prize email, but my Gmail is stuffed with porn spam. 50-70 a day.

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  • pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Lucky! You have hot singles in your area spam folder, and all I get is blatant blackmail scams telling me they have my (wrong) phone number and that there’s nation-state Spyware on my phone recording video every time I dare to stroke some sausage.

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• Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m in that boat. Outlook’s reporting function died too.

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  • FenrirIII@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s my Outlook too. I only use it for personal work and business. Very annoying

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• foggy@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A point of pride that I have a 5 character email address with no numbers. A Gmail account I got with an invite back when… Invites.

  Spamless. Granted, I have setup shell emails that forward to it etc. it’s well guarded.

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  • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m going to send emails to every 5 character email address. That’s 26^5 emails.

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    • foggy@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Good luck. I guarantee your failure. 🙂

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My email has been spammed daily since the 90’s. It’s why I don’t really use email if I can avoid it.

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• saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Outside of work, I haven’t replied on email in years. I have one account for my bank and stuff, but rarely look at it.

  Not sure if your society still revolves around email, but I recommend doing the same thing.

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• zeppo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not lately. My gmails Spam sections mostly have legitimate marketing and news emails that idiots have apparently reported as spam instead of just unsubscribing from.

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  • Agility0971@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How can you distinguish between “legitimate marketing” and some phishing email that looks like marketing material with a tracked unsubscribe link? Clicking on that unsubscribe link just lets them know email is active and its value has just been increased

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  • Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m guilty of marking legit emails as spam recently, a bunch of the emails I’ve been getting I’ve already tried unsubscribing multiple times and they keep coming (I’m looking at you, Threads) so I gave up and reported them as spam

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    • zeppo@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you try unsubbing and it doesn’t work, then that fits. I just suspect a lot of people don’t even try. I’m just tired of having things I signed up for ant want show up in spam.

      Most recently I ordered some merch from Atari and all of their mails went to spam, including responses from customer service, which is annoying because I thought they just never wrote back.

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