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LilYoda
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| Re: I rarely get spam on Gmail You know what's weird?
I got a gmail about a year and a half ago (had had an invite sitting in my yahoo mail for a while)
I've never used it. ever! I've never sent a single email with it, and forgot about it.
When I go back to it now, I see 12 spams in the inbox, and 296 in the spam folder. I'd find it surprising that I'm the only gmail user whose email was sold to spam outfits by google,  so I have no idea how the *$@! this email got added to spam lists (when none of my other emails have).
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| Re: I rarely get spam on Gmail said by LilYoda  :You know what's weird? I got a gmail about a year and a half ago (had had an invite sitting in my yahoo mail for a while) I've never used it. ever! I've never sent a single email with it, and forgot about it. When I go back to it now, I see 12 spams in the inbox, and 296 in the spam folder. I'd find it surprising that I'm the only gmail user whose email was sold to spam outfits by google, so I have no idea how the *$@! this email got added to spam lists (when none of my other emails have). I doubt Google sold it to spam outfits, lol. You have a common email address that the spammers just guessed, or you signed up for pr0n after one too many and don't remember. 
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LilYoda
Feline with squirel personality disorder
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2 edits | Re: I rarely get spam on Gmail They might have guessed it. Now let's assume my name is John Doe. I wonder why john.doe@gmail.com is infested, and not john_doe@yahoo.fr, which is my main address.
Maybe email generators aren't clever enough to handle the underscore, or domains that end in something else than .com
And regarding pr0n outfits, I always sign up as "Unotgonnaget@myemail.com", or something similar 
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| Re: I rarely get spam on Gmail said by LilYoda :Maybe email generators aren't clever enough to handle the underscore, or domains that end in something else than .com Yep, that last is probably it. No one said spammers are thorough. | |
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| I just checked my Gmail account "Spam" folder:
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Hooray, no spam here!
The only time I saw a wad of spam in that folder was when I was forwarding one of my 'pacbell.net' sub accounts to the Gmail account. I can't recall why I was doing it; testing something, or other. But it isn't my normal M.O.
BTW, all of that 'pacbell.net' spam normally ends up in the "Bulk" folder of that account.
Did you ever send email from that Gmail account to a friend, or relative?
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LilYoda
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Mountains | Re: I rarely get spam on Gmail Nope, never sent an email with it, never put it anywhere on any website.
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