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by IG_Semmelweiss 1235 days ago
Can you pls explain how you filter? In my experience the sender

whhdjsjwjsjbxjejwjabdjeje@mail.ru

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?

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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)
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.