[shortcake27]

Yeah I’ve been getting loads of spam hitting my inbox. It’s actually hilarious, email addresses such as “[e-mail]” with the subject “Free Yeti Hopper” and yet Google can’t identify it as spam.

The good news is that in my case, there are patterns I can filter. I’ve set up about 30 filters so far to automatically delete such emails. Works great. I recommend using exact matching (double quotes) to avoid false positives. I really need to move away from Gmail, but filters are _awesome_.

[Euphorbium]

I too am getting the same kind of spam in my inbox. And it is coming from gmail addresses, or at least appears like that. Seems like hello world difficulty machine learning filter should be catching those with 99% success. My theory is that google decided to boot me off the service as I am unprofitable and use up their free resources to the fullest.

[IG_Semmelweiss]

Can you pls explain how you filter? In my experience the sender

[e-mail]

Is never the same. Not the domain. Not the sender. How do you filter a sender that keeps changing into random characters, if the subject or content is also changing?

[shortcake27]

I just meant it's funny Gmail can't identify an email address where the spammer has just mashed the keyboard. Usually there's some kind of pattern in the senders name, subject, or content, and you can match on multiple fields. For example, here's one of my filters:

  from:("Dicks sporting goods"|DicksSportingGoods|"Dicks SportingGoods") (yeti|makita)

[cmeacham98]

They're not filtering based on sender, they're filtering based on words/phrases in the spam itself that do not appear in legit email.

[simlan]

Interesting my cases supposedly came from some .edu or other educational related TLDs at first then it devolved into randoms... Well I will need to monitor and maybe do my own rules as well.

[pifm_guy]

I just filtered for the word yeti.

I don't want a yeti hopper...