<story><title>Ask HN: What&apos;s happening with Gmail spam filtering?</title><text>In the last 2 weeks my gmail inbox went from zero spam to at least 2&amp;#x2F;3 spam&amp;#x2F;phishing emails per day on the inbox. I&amp;#x27;m marking them as spam but nonetheless it keeps happening. I&amp;#x27;m wondering if because spam traffic increased and spammers found a new way to trick anti-spam or if gmail engineers changed something on their end. Is anyone experiencing the same?&lt;p&gt;Not a big deal as it&amp;#x27;s been almost a year I&amp;#x27;m migrating off gmail and I&amp;#x27;m keeping it only for a few things, but still annoying</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>enlyth</author><text>To offer a singular data point, contrary to other posters here, I am not seeing this at all, and I pretty actively use my two Gmail addresses which have been active since 2005. My spam inbox regularly gets correctly categorized spam, and important emails still correctly land in my inbox.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>Same here. I haven&amp;#x27;t had Gmail let a single spam email through in years.&lt;p&gt;To the contrary, I find myself going through my spam folder to mark as NOT spam things like monthly newsletters from arts organizations. There are a bunch of concerts and plays I&amp;#x27;ve sadly missed because of this. (Which I can only assume comes from people abusing the mark-as-spam button instead of properly unsubscribing, which sucks because it leads to other people missing the legitimate emails.)&lt;p&gt;Also things like invoices from Apple purchases (e.g. a paid app or AppleCare) show up in spam. Which isn&amp;#x27;t a biggie, but it does seem like bizarre that Gmail could ever get that wrong.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: What&apos;s happening with Gmail spam filtering?</title><text>In the last 2 weeks my gmail inbox went from zero spam to at least 2&amp;#x2F;3 spam&amp;#x2F;phishing emails per day on the inbox. I&amp;#x27;m marking them as spam but nonetheless it keeps happening. I&amp;#x27;m wondering if because spam traffic increased and spammers found a new way to trick anti-spam or if gmail engineers changed something on their end. Is anyone experiencing the same?&lt;p&gt;Not a big deal as it&amp;#x27;s been almost a year I&amp;#x27;m migrating off gmail and I&amp;#x27;m keeping it only for a few things, but still annoying</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>enlyth</author><text>To offer a singular data point, contrary to other posters here, I am not seeing this at all, and I pretty actively use my two Gmail addresses which have been active since 2005. My spam inbox regularly gets correctly categorized spam, and important emails still correctly land in my inbox.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mFixman</author><text>As a middle point between the main post and your comment, I have been getting 1 or 2 spam emails every week for the last couple of months.&lt;p&gt;Gmail&amp;#x27;s spam filtering was perfect before, so something is going on on my account (although not as dramatic as OP&amp;#x27;s).</text></comment>