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gMail used to be near impenetrable. Now every day I get `Confirmation receipt! You are the Lucky online-Winner !You've been chosen!#5646`

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Yeah, not sure what happened but I've been experiencing the same thing. My email was leaked onto the web many moons ago but the spam has been harassing me for just a year or so

I keep winning a free Yeti Cooler. It's so odd - I barely get any other spam and yet this particular strain keeps showing up.

Same, I've got a garage full of Yeti coolers by now (as soon as they show up, surely they will, I won!)

Fortunately I don't really rely on my gmail email for anything important, but it's filling up with that spam and marking it spam doesn't make any difference.

Interestingly I don't get any of those on my primary email which is self-hosted (and the address is a lot more public and older than my gmail address).

I get a few of these every day lately with yahoo mail. I was getting a bunch of confirm delivery receipt phishing emails for costco, walmart, fedex as well as tractors and bitcoin recently as well. They all seemed to have the same wacky text style used in the subject line.

Blocking the senders simply files the emails under the Spam label.

I'm currently trying to get rid of them by filtering the messages. I do

Settings --> Full settings --> Filters and Blocked Addresses

Create a new Filter

Add the display name or similar to the 'Includes the Words' field

Create Filter

Select 'Delete it'

The spammers seem to be training on transactional (rather than marketing) emails. New account info, receipts, etc are allowed under can-spam and it looks like Gmail actually privileges them to make sure they get through.

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