Except for the last one, all the calls to action seem to be crypto related, but I don't know if that's relevant to the origin of this attack. Perhaps it's just the most successful way of getting clicks nowadays (?).
It's baffling that google are letting these ones slip. Even marking some as spam does nothing to prevent new ones from coming.
Title: Rc 2 Xq 1677 Riyw 532
Sender: Чеслав Сальников <zeqiyic@gmail.com>
Body: 3688 867 8383 4 3 784
Attachment: Free Bitcoin - DELL .html
Title: V10 YU L2 RUO T778 ZRD
Sender: Тельман Кудряшов sefovuz@gmail.com
Body: 3484 2 0812 61 3
Attachment: Blockchain Prizes 3883 .htm
Why would it be baffling? Google’s spam filters have always been extremely low quality, even mistaking email generated by Google itself as spam. They simply don’t have the pride of craftsmanship to improve it.
In my world, spam was a true problem that was killing email. Truly killing it. You would have to create a new address every 6 months to stay ahead of the spam and have a functioning inbox. Very different world.
Gmail fixed that. And for me, there have been issues from time to time and in fact i am getting this very spam myself, but gmail permanently stopped the hordes for me in 2004.
Now, don’t get me started on their insane categorization choices.
Hardly. They didn't invent the tech. And they didn't perfect it. They haven't even tried. The evidence is in my Spam folder. I mean they mark messages they themselves originate as dangerous spam. "Dangerous" being their word, not mine. Screenshot from within the last hour:
I was in that earlier world too. They papered the problem over, a little. But no, they didn't fix it.
The return address is:
Google Alerts - googlealerts-noreply (at) google.com
Now, my impression is that all of the well-regarded email providers do a good job of handling spam—it's no longer a differentiator. (Although it might start to be again if Google has genuinely let their guard down.) Fastmail does a good job in my experience.