I just received three obvious spam messages in my inbox over the past half hour and have had a couple besides those over the past few days. I can count on one hand the number of times someone’s successfully spammed me through GMail in the three years before this so I’m pretty surprised.
Am I the only one experiencing this?
I’ve had some spam but it’s automatically flagged as spam.
Oh, I get dozens of those a day. These’re showing up in my inbox.
I had one in my inbox this morning, after a long hiatus. Not really a problem, but I did note it.
My spam is way up on gmail. Apparently there’s a number of people out there very concerned about my, ummm, physical limitations. Luckily, their filters are very good at catching it and it all ends up in my spam folder.
The guy I work with who cares for our corporate mail servers tells me that spam always goes up for the three-month period surrounding the Christmas season.
Strange.
Give V1@gra as gifts?
My Gmail account is remarkably free from spam. It is even odder because I use it for those sites where I want to maintain a large degree of anonymity. Indeed, those sites that I assume my email address is being sold to spammers. I guess the fact that Google scans all email for content allows them to develop superior spam algorithms using their super smart rocket scientist programmers.
Funny enough I have less. I have a domain that does a catch-all send to my gmail box, and 4 other email addresses that forward to my gmail.
I don’t empty my spam box, and I let it float at the 30 day limit, until it autocleans.
Last month at this time I had around 7500 floating in my spam box, and this month I am down to around 2500.
Occasionally I get spam in the two digits per day (I get catchall mail for several domains to my account so there is a lot of spam overall - my spam folder with its 30-day retention period has about 81,000 spam mails in it).
What worries me more is the false positives. Apparently bona fide automatically-generated confirmation/password confirmation/lost-password reminder e-mails from sites I have contacted have a tendency to get classified as spam, so when I do not get the expected mail within a few minutes I look into the spam folder.
I have received notification from Gmail, that Gmail itself has marked as spam. I always visually scan my spambox because of this. But Gmail is much, much better than the other free services - Hotmail and Yahoo also do this all the time, with a much greater false positive rate.
Seems to be happening to me too. For some reason spam with ‘FROM’ names that look like legit businesses – and sometimes are – land in the inbox, even if I’ve previously classified an email with that exact same address and subject line as junk.
On the other hand, Gmail is successfully filing what I assume to be penis-enlargement offers in Russian and Arabic to my Spam folder, which is better than Hotmail ever did.
I’ve noticed this too - they’re all going directly to my spam folder, but where I was getting maybe one or two pieces a month, now I’m getting 7-8 a day.
I thought it was just because I’ve used my gmail to sign up for a couple of things online, and some of those databases had been hacked/sold.
Gmail recently changed its interface technology - in the last week. I can’t think of why this would have an effect, but maybe they changed the back-end too.
Nope, maybe 1-2 a day. I feel neglected.
I get no spam at all in my GMail Inbox and currently have 1340 in my Spam folder (which seems to be lower than usual). I’ve had a bigger problem with it eating valid e-mails than allowing spam through.
I get at least 5-10 Nigerian and/or lottery spams a day in my gmail inbox. This started about two months ago. I get scads more than that going straight to my spam folder but somehow the lottery and Nigerian scams pass the filter. Whats odd is I can’t think of anything that would have put me on their radar. I use my gmail mostly as my address for online bill paying.
So far I have won about three trillion bucks in the U.K and Microsoft Lotteries. Drinks are on me! 
I’ve always gotten about 1-2 spams a week in my Gmail account. I haven’t noticed any spikes in the amount I’m getting, but I haven’t ever paid attention to it either.
I’ve gotten into the habit of checking my spam/bulk mail folders in all of my accounts ever since my father’s email about my mother’s death got classified as spam. Thanks Yahoo. Thanks a whole lot.
I’m now getting 5-10 spam messages a day, but every single one of them is filtered into the Spam folder. I very occasionally get a legitimate email thrown in there; maybe once a month. The amount of spam I get is actually way up from, say, six months ago, when I got maybe one or two a month.
I use my gmail address for everything that is not strictly work related, so I’m sure that address is on every spammer’s list. I think the ‘spam protection’ is the single best thing about GMail.