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I was placed on some sort of spam list immediately following a PayPal dispute with a seller and found this thread that helped me tame the spam bombing I’ve expe

I was placed on some sort of spam list immediately following a PayPal dispute with a seller and found this thread that helped me tame the spam bombing I’ve experienced ever since: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/89119/how-to-filter-messages-with-animated-emoji-in-the-subject-in-gmail https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/89119/how-to-fil... The majority of the spam came in with emojis in the from or subject line, so this was immediately helpful for that, then I just add a rule whenever I notice certain phrases popping up more often. I’d be delighted if someone can tell me I’m wrong, but it seems like Gmail filters don’t have built in options for stuff like emojis or regular expressions. Very disappointing that I have to brute force script my own filters.

mateo1 5y ago
Beware that even "serious" companies are now starting to include emojis in the subject line. I had a flight cancellation notification email come up with plane emojis in the title... I almost overlooked it as some kind of quasi-spam marketing email (the titles was something like "[plane emojis] about your flight [plane emojis]"). Perhaps it was the intention since it included information about EU regulated refunds.