Ask HN: Spam Breaking Through (Gmail)
I've had a Gmail account since its early beta and I've never seen so many spams worming their way into my inbox as I can see these days. Granted, I'm not submerged by spam, but after many years of having simply forgotten about the spam scourge (I would get maybe one or two per YEAR!), seeing three or four per week is quite irritating.
Another thing I had noticed last year was the sheer number of messages accumulated in Spam; for decades there were just 150 or 200 at any given moment; starting last year, their number jumped considerably, and for a couple of months, Gmail's Spam folder had more than 1,000! Still, only very rarely I would see one in my inbox (I use IMAP and I exclude Spam from my subscribed folders; I only noticed their huge number when I had to use the web interface.)