How are obvious spam emails still able to make it into my Gmail inbox?
I've been receiving more obvious spam emails recently, like an email that pretends to be Dicks Sporting Goods. The title is "CONGRATULATIONS!". The content says that I won a free Yeti cooler. The "from" email address is a mess, but it contains keywords like "protection", "ind01", "outbound", "outlook", etc.
And it doesn't even go into the promotions folder, but into my main Inbox. I thought that Google became so good that spam like this was basically impossible. It's been the case for a while now. Has something changed?
There are scummy services that simulate interactions with spam email addresses so Gmail sees the activity and thinks these are legitimate senders.
Not going to mention or link to them, but I was shocked to see one actually show up on Product Hunt a while ago. I'd thought PH was better than that.
Spammers are always coming up with ways of getting 'round spam filters. It happens with every email provider. It takes a little while for the providers to adapt to the new tactics. So, keep marking what's spam as spam. Every little bit helps.
It's a constant arms-race, and occasionally, one side or the other briefly gets the upper-hand?