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What can one do about Spam in one's account?
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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1734214" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>When a SPAM messages shows up in your inbox, mark it as SPAM and Google will learn to detect it in the future. The number of SPAM message ebb and flow based on who is getting access to the list of email addresses. As long as they are all ending up in the SPAM folder, you can ignore them and they will go away after 30 days. You should periodically check on the folder to make sure that legitimate emails aren't ending up there.</p><p></p><p>A valid (working) email address that spammers can use is quite valuable so it get sold a lot..</p><p></p><p>None of this means that your account was hacked, just that your email address was found and shared.</p><p></p><p>One of the techniques I've used to find the people who share my email address is to do the following with my GMail email address..</p><p></p><p><mygmailname>+<website/unique tag>@gmail.com</p><p></p><p>Gmail will continue to deliver these emails to you and once you start seeing spam directed at these unique variations, you know which website/person was to blame..<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1734214, member: 110816"] When a SPAM messages shows up in your inbox, mark it as SPAM and Google will learn to detect it in the future. The number of SPAM message ebb and flow based on who is getting access to the list of email addresses. As long as they are all ending up in the SPAM folder, you can ignore them and they will go away after 30 days. You should periodically check on the folder to make sure that legitimate emails aren't ending up there. A valid (working) email address that spammers can use is quite valuable so it get sold a lot.. None of this means that your account was hacked, just that your email address was found and shared. One of the techniques I've used to find the people who share my email address is to do the following with my GMail email address.. <mygmailname>+<website/unique tag>@gmail.com Gmail will continue to deliver these emails to you and once you start seeing spam directed at these unique variations, you know which website/person was to blame..:) [/QUOTE]
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