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by pcorsaro 1367 days ago
For me, it just goes in cycles. For a couple of weeks, I'll get these spam emails from "Dick's Sporting Goods" telling me I won a chance at a Yeti cooler or something like that. These emails will make it through gmail's filter for a while, then they catch them, then they figure out how to get through again. That particular set of emails seems to be the only spam that ever makes it through the filter, but the cycle has been happening for quite a while now.
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I'm currently in the "Dick's Sporting Goods" cycle....a few months ago I was in the "Norton Renewal" cycle. In between was 5-6 weeks of silence.
I also get the Dick's Sporting Goods emails and am baffled and amazed that such a stupid, obvious scam is beating the world's best spam filters that have billions of data points in their training set.
It's funny cause the from email is like: aklsdjflkasdjf@dkaljklsdjfls.com