Gmail users report spam surge

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Spam Filter

I think Spam email is not the fault of Gmail. Spam is unwanted email sent by unknown people to us. Gmail spam filter does a great job catching and junking these spam email into the spam box although some do slip through to the in box.

Blame the people who send the spam, don't blame Gmail for catching a high percentage of these spam. However, I am not sure, are most of the comments here saying that Gmail Spam Filter fail to catch the spam and allowed the spam to go to the Inbox? This is a different thing, of course.

I am also curious, why do some of the spam in my spam box, seem to originate from my own account? IE the sender is my own email, which of course, I did not send in the first place.

Yahoo too

Yahoo has the same problem times 10. I'm getting 200 to 500 spams a day to my Yahoo account.

i have definitely been

i have definitely been getting more spam then usual lately and i'm never on dangerous sites.

spam mail

I have been having A LOT of spam (most of which does get caught)but over the last few wks. I have gotten over 50 in my inbox.Overall I have gotten over 1,150 in my system over the last several wks. HELP !! Since I have been unable to stop them from coming for whatever the reason, I have closed that email acct.out.

gmail spam

I have used yahoo for over 10 years. I decided to switch to gmail because yahoo mail had a lot of spam and the advertisements were driving me crazy. Yes I have noticed more spam in my gmail but no where near as much as in yahoo mail. I will stay with gmail because I like the interface, options, and chat.

Not ready to jump

I'm only seeing a few spam emails per day in my inbox. Gmail has a really great track record when it comes to spam. For now I'm just clicking on the "Report spam" button and hoping the filters get updated to fix the problem. I am confident Google will take care of it before long.

$21,000,000,000

I disagree with the position that because you don't pay Google a subscription fee, it has no responsibility to you. I don't think you have to be a paying customer in order to be a customer.

Google is a business — a very large business. It's also a very smart business — it doesn't leave things lying around that are hemorrhaging money like a lottery winner in Neiman Marcus. It offers services like Gmail because they make it money, not because they woke up one morning and said "Lets sink a bunch of money into an email scheme that will lose us millions of dollars!"

Those ads you see in your Gmail mailbox — or avoid by using POP/IMAP — fill Google's coffers with billions of dollars. They get those billions of dollars when businesses — their 'first line' customers, so to speak — place ads through AdWords: $21 billion worth of ads last year. However, those businesses don't pay Google to run their ads, they pay them to get people to click their ads, and if the plan works, buy whatever it is that particular company is selling.

That's where we come in — we're Google's 'second line' customers. Google doesn't make a penny, much less $21,000,000,000, if nobody clicks. Without us, they're just another entry on the Bankruptcy Court docket.

We don't pay Google directly out of our own pockets (unless you're purchasing a subscription service like Google Earth Pro), but we do pay them. We pay them with our patronage — every time we click an AdWords ad and buy something from that vendor, we've paid Google. Not only have we paid them for that ad we clicked, by paying the people who pay them, but we've paid them for every other ad that company places, because we contributed to the analytics that convince the company that advertising with Google is good business.

Without us, the whole system falls apart. If we stop clicking, companies stop advertising, and Google stops taking in $21 billion from AdWords in a single year. As long as we're clicking, companies will keep advertising — it's common sense, they go where the potential customers are — and Google will keep raking in piles of cash.

It's absolutely correct that Gmail continues, after five years, to have a beta tag on it. Beta software and services do have bugs, and there are compromises to be made by choosing to trust a beta product for essential services. However, a beta tag is not sovereign immunity — it doesn't protect you from suffering consequences for bad performance. Whether you're alpha, beta, gamma, or Delta Delta Delta, if your product turns off your users, you suffer. In Google's case, if we stop using Gmail because they screw it up, then we're not seeing those $21 billion ads anymore, are we?

So no, we don't send checks to Google for Gmail, but we most certainly do pay them for it. As I said a few weeks ago about Twitter, in the midst of the @-reply kerfluffle: At the end of the day, Google’s main concern isn’t “How do we run this business?” it’s “How do we make our service useful to our customers so we have a business to run in the first place?”