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Re: I rarely get spam on Gmail

said by LilYoda See Profile :

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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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 See Profile :

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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