Brand new G mail. Already spam

[NexSite]

Unbelievable. I hope they catch these friggen spammers and put evry one of them in jail or fine the shit out of them. I have a brand new gmail account, about a week old, nobody has that address. Already the spam starts to flow in. Spam is the ultimate disgrace of the net. And then that phishing with spam thing. UGH.

 

[NameTower]

Same, the spam is starting to come in and I've never posted my gmail address anywhere.
Also spam buildup on my [email protected] recently.

 

[stevey]

i have a few gmail accounts which i have never given out and they get 30+ spam emails a week in, my hotmail accounts get 1 or 2 spam emails a month

 

[paybacktime]

seems like its something with gmail and spam! I'm getting loads in gmail and not much in other accounts.

 

[NexSite]

My hunch is that they are just subbing the gmail.com tld into there existing spam lists.

 

[Theo]

If you registered a generic or dictionary address with gmail you might be getting affected. Or, like NexSite said, the spammers might be taking pre-existed lists of hotmail accounts and substituting it with the "gmail" part.

 

[stevey]

or it could be just gmail testing there spam filters as its still in beta testing :santa:

 

[Steen]

GMail has very poor filters. MSN(Hotmail) and AOL are very good.