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I've been getting emails like the last one in my university inbox (Gmail-powered) for months now. They always follow the same format: a Vietnamese-sounding name
by TheBozzCL 5y ago
I've been getting emails like the last one in my university inbox (Gmail-powered) for months now. They always follow the same format: a Vietnamese-sounding name (correct me if I'm wrong about that), followed by a 4-ish digit number. Most were going straight to my inbox instead of my spam folder.
I cut a support ticket to the university IT team, asking if they had turned off spam filters or something. It just seemed very unlikely Gmail would not detect them as spam. I think it's gotten better recently, but I don't open that account a lot since I avoid Google like the plague.
EDIT: to add to that, many of them had subjects that started with a green heart emoji. I was super disappointed that Gmail didn't let me create a filter based on that to at least delete them.
- memcg 5y agoI have been getting about two a week that are similar to what you describe. Most are for nail clippers, T-shirts and gifts imprinted with my first name. Most have links to domains registered on namecheap.com and an unsubscribe link to a Google form. I don't attempt to unsubscribe, but I do click the abuse link and report the form as spam to the Google black hole. I report most spam through Spam Cop, but most recent spam ends up going to google-abuse-bounces-reports@devnull.spamcop.net. My email is an 20 year old alias @verizon.net address accessed using AOL Mail web site and Yahoo servers.