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Ask HN: Is anyone else receiving spoofed gmail spam in their inbox?
I have been receiving spam emails in my gmail inbox that are marked as being sent from my gmail account. The email headers show a non-gmail mail server, so it appears that someone is spoofing my email address to send me spam to get around the gmail spam filter. Several friends also mentioned that they are experiencing the same issue, and I see reports on reddit as well [0]. I'm curious how widespread this is. Normally <1 spam email makes it through to my inbox each month.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/GMail/comments/8dztcj/spam_getting_into_my_inbox/
- gre 9y agoYep, got a couple of ``Sexy Girls Asian Girls Looking for US Men`` tonight. This may be a spoofed message. Inbox couldn't verify that it was actually sent from your account.
- 1000units 9y agoIt's some very strange targeting, to say the least. I got "AGWWG: ASIAN GIRLS WANT WHITE GUYS."
- startupflix 9y agoMe too.
- grizzles 9y agoYeah a ton. I posted about it before I saw this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16894604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16894604 reply [updated]. Thanks xur.
- xur17 9y agoI think you linked to the wrong post - this is the correct one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16894604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16894604
- marsrover 9y agoYeah. Couple every hour for about 5 hours now.
- bestnameever 9y agoso many! Thought it was just me...very interesting it is happening on a large scale.
- gargarplex 9y ago+1
- startupflix 9y agoIs there any solution?
- Elizabeth_1 9y agomark it spam
- quickthrower2 9y agoNot me
- freehunter 9y agoYup. I thought it was weird that this is the first spam message I got in gmail in a very long time. This post led me to go back and check and sure enough it looks like it was sent by me. Big problem.
- augustocallejas 9y agoAbout an hour ago, I received 4 messages like this over the span of two hours.
- lexandstuff 9y agoIt's extremely widespread. Take a look at the Twitter search feed for Gmail+spam: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=gmail%20spam https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=gmail%20spam
- askthrowaway 9y agoIt happens also in Outlook, received 2 emails so far with a link to a phishing page
- davewasthere 9y agoYes, multiple right now. I think about four made it through.
- trusk89 9y agoOmg, yes! Caused me to update my passwords and shit. I taught I was compromised.
- mickrussom 9y agoI wish there was a solution to this. All crap from telus it looks like.
- Elizabeth_1 9y agoMark it spam
- Elizabeth_1 9y agoI received two of these messages in the last few hours.. I doubt they really could have been directed personally at me, but I'm at least glad I'm not the only one who got such creepy Gmail's!!
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- BlazedFire 9y agoYeah.. I see that all of them say: Mailed by telos.com
- BlazedFire 9y agotelus.com
- imauld 9y agoI don't ahve anything sent form my account but I do have some spam messages in my spam folder from a telus account <PmNxl@nieywdufb.telus.com> Posing as the Gmail service team, they are saying I requested to have my gmail account deleted and to reply to them to stop the process.
- snow4475 9y agoYes,receive email actually said to me from me
- donttrack 9y agoYes...
- senectus1 9y agoyup me too
- unstatusthequo 9y agoMicrosoft having fun after Google disclosed Windows security bugs? ;)
- contentedgypsy 9y agoSame here. Glad it's not just me.
- ApostleJohn 9y agoYes I see a lot of people reporting it on Twitter but oddly nothing online or in the news about it.
- panarky 9y agoGmail puts a warning box at the top of message: "This may be a spoofed message..." Gmail knows it's spoofed so why is it in the inbox instead of spam? Example: https://imgur.com/a/bQbn48V https://imgur.com/a/bQbn48V
- kyo3 9y agoAppears to only be certain accounts, my "spam" email is getting loads of this.
- carol1970 9y agoIt seems to be a massive attack against Google... so people gets scared and then do a massive-viral claim on social media and every where while these "Telus people" are LOL at Google and at us... and by the way... this is happening in Australia too :(