Perhaps businesses are becoming too agressive at requesting email addresses, people are providing fake email addresses, and the recipients are responding by fla

Perhaps businesses are becoming too agressive at requesting email addresses, people are providing fake email addresses, and the recipients are responding by flagging it as spam? I bring this up because I started receiving suspiciously legitimate spam a few years back. No red flags were raised by the email itself (e.g. no indications of phishing), the companies exist, the recipients exist, everything was geographically consistent. It was as though certain individuals were providing my email address as their own to businesses yet not to friends or colleagues. When you consider how agressive some of these websites are with newsletters, I would not be surprised if people were providing fake email addresses just to get rid of the prompts. I would not be surprised if Google started flagging those newsletters as spam, even if the odd user genuinely wanted them.