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Keep in mind that just because an email purports to be from a .gov address, that does not mean it is authentic. It is trivial to send an email with any address
by pwg 8y ago
Keep in mind that just because an email purports to be from a .gov address, that does not mean it is authentic.
It is trivial to send an email with any address you like as the from value. So this may be a response on google's part to the irs scammers (and other 'govt' scamming artists) sending out spam emails with .gov from addresses to give them a fake appearance of authenticity.
- lvs 8y agoSurely that's some of the motivation for aggressive spam filtering, but I am seeing this on very legitimate and anticipated emails. In fact, in some cases I get replies sent to spam despite the fact that I've sent outgoing mail in the same thread! Something is broken...