Spam

[flick]

Mike has super spam filters, which mean that very little of the stuff gets through to my gmail account.

Gmail also has super spam filters, which means that even less of it gets into my inbox.

There are currently 21 messages in my gmail spam folder (which auto-deletes after a month). Thirteen of them are fake 'here's your invoice' or 'you haven't yet paid your invoice' notices, of which four or five actually did get to my inbox, and they *all* claim to be from someone called Mike Barraclough (but are coming to more than one of my addresses).

Is anyone else getting them?

Comments

[history_monk]

Not me - my gmail spam folder had nothing but regular mailings that I scan and normally delete. Gmail seemed to have decided that made them spam.

[miramon]

Not getting anything like that. I did have one claiming to be an incoming payment from Metro Bank. Most of my spam is a mixture of IT-related (stuff that I normally delete unread), leavened with mortgage offers, free lottery tickets, car leasing and "do you need some female company?"

[clothsprogs]

Not me.

That I know of - my email is through work which tends to classify anything not generated form within the university as spam, so I'm used to just scanning for email addresses or senders names I recognize before deleting the contents of the junk folder.

Teddy

[davidcook]

I've had a few "breakthrough" messages like that too - and I have two layers of filtering as well, one from pobox.com, one from Gmail. There were a couple supposedly from Chase, and a few pharmacy-related ones (CVS, Walgreens - neither of which operates in Australia, of course).
... hmmm, and a fishing store. Pretty random.
All of the fake invoice ones seem to be getting caught by Pobox though ...

[flick]

Which makes these even more odd: we use pobox as well!