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by poincaredisk 443 days ago
I agree so far, but:

>But was is happening in your inbox, really? >Most spam is not "black hat spam". It is what I call "white-collar spam": perfectly legitimate company, sending you emails from legitimate address. You slept in a hotel during a business trip?

This is pure survivor paradox. This is true for your Gmail account, because all "black hat spam" was already filtered! I own two unfiltered email accounts that were sadly scraped from the internet, and the spam is - by far - almost completely malspam, romance scam, cryptocurrency spam, scam attempts, spoofs, phishings.

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I have a protonmail account with close to 0 spam. In fact, I get more spam on my legacy gmail account.

Email spam is not the huge problem people make it out to be. Common sense goes a long way.