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diger7 · 02-11-2006, 05:12 PM,

All of a sudden I started receiving a bunch of spam on my personal gmail account that I never give out (except to friends)! I thought gmail was better than yahoo! Tongue2

maryrussel · 02-12-2006, 12:44 AM,

I've been averaging about 20 spams a day in my gmail account, where I used to get less than 10 a week.

bargainbloodhound · 02-12-2006, 02:04 AM,

I don't have a gmail account, but...

Quote:Spam gets through Google's filters

GMail not learning a thing from my reports?

Until about two months ago, Google's anti-spam filters also seemed to work really well. Then I started receiving SPAM with a distinctive characteristic: "Hey {insert random name here}" in the subject line. I have thousands of such mails in my SPAM folder, and more arriving daily to my inbox, not stopped by my spam reporting on the GMail interface:

full article http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29331

Nat · 02-12-2006, 07:06 AM,

Have 4 gmail accounts that I've been using regularly since early last year and only one I get spammed in but that one I used to post a message on a message board elsewhere and suddenly everyone is trying to sell me software or drugs. But no spam in the other three.