Dozens of spam messages daily now
Dozens of spam messages daily now
Is anyone else getting dozens of spam messages every day claiming they won some prize? I blame DOGE for leaking my private email address
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.
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.
Remember when the GOP sued google because its spam filters were too effective?
I'm not, no.
But yes, hold them responsible for their crimes in all cases.
I'm in that boat. Outlook's reporting function died too.
It's my Outlook too. I only use it for personal work and business. Very annoying
I feel like I (and probably a lot people now) don't have a clue what most of their emails are. I don't subscribe to anything anymore. I have no reason to routinely check it.
It's just where receipts and account management messages (verification codes, click here to finish logging in type stuff), along with automated reminders of activities that have happened it need to happen. I haven't checked email that wasn't a log in thing for a very long time. And even then it was probably to check a record of some sort.
It used to be used as a primary communication protocol, now it's just the account you need to have to make an account on what you'll actually use.
Has anyone used it intentionally for anything more than that in the last 10 years? Personal email I mean, not for work email.
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.
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
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.
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
I'm referring to things I explicitly signed up for.