Showing posts with label spam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spam. Show all posts

Thursday, June 05, 2025

For several days now, the Google Gmail spam blocker seems to fail

Update: Today, I have already received two spam emails in my inbox and only 14 hours of the day have passed.

About every day now I receive one or more obviously suspicious emails with an attachment in my inbox.

The Gmail spam filter used to be very good until recently. I wonder what happened!

I am even a paying subscription customer of Google!

Here is the latest spam email



Monday, December 02, 2024

Google identifies Google Scholar as an email spammer in Gmail

What a great joke! Was AI hallucinating again? 😊

Today, this message was in my Gmail spam folder. I get about a dozen or more of similar messages per day from Google Scholar, because I follow certain scholars like Kyunghyun Cho. By the way, Kyunghyun Cho is a top ML & AI researcher with over 160,000 lifetime citations.

I don't remember ever having seen this happening before that a Google Scholar alert email about new research papers by a scholar that I follow ends up in the Gmail spam folder.



Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Very clever spam calls annoyances

In the past two days or so I received at least three telephone calls that went straight into my voice mail without the phone ringing. I believe, the phone number was the same.

These calls are not listed on my smartphone's call history at all, so I can not block this telephone number. Great!

The content of the very short voice messages was pretty much the same. We are trying to reach you. We will try again. Please call this number (xxx) xxx-xxxx! As if this call was important or urgent!

My provider is TMobile. Why is TMobile allowing this to happen?

Sunday, September 07, 2014

Google E-mails Spam?

Posted: 9/7/2014


Today, I discovered, while going through my junk e-mail using the Google mail web interface, that one of Google’s own e-mail messages was flagged as spam. I have never seen this before and I have been using Google mail for several years.


The message with subject line “Games that never grow old + snag your early release of The Amazing Spider-Man 2” sent by “Google Play <news-googleplay@google.com>” ended up in spam.

As they say nobody is perfect! :-)