Is anyone else getting dozens of spam messages every day claiming they won some prize? I blame DOGE for leaking my private email address

  • zeppo@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Not lately. My gmails Spam sections mostly have legitimate marketing and news emails that idiots have apparently reported as spam instead of just unsubscribing from.

    • Agility0971@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      How can you distinguish between “legitimate marketing” and some phishing email that looks like marketing material with a tracked unsubscribe link? Clicking on that unsubscribe link just lets them know email is active and its value has just been increased

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      16 hours ago

      I’m guilty of marking legit emails as spam recently, a bunch of the emails I’ve been getting I’ve already tried unsubscribing multiple times and they keep coming (I’m looking at you, Threads) so I gave up and reported them as spam

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        13 hours ago

        If you try unsubbing and it doesn’t work, then that fits. I just suspect a lot of people don’t even try. I’m just tired of having things I signed up for ant want show up in spam.

        Most recently I ordered some merch from Atari and all of their mails went to spam, including responses from customer service, which is annoying because I thought they just never wrote back.