Anyone notice lately an increase of spam mails breaking through Gmail's (usually excellent) spam filters?<p>I've had a Gmail account since its early beta and I've never seen so many spams worming their way into my inbox as I can see these days. Granted, I'm not <i>submerged</i> by spam, but after many years of having simply forgotten about the spam scourge (I would get maybe one or two per YEAR!), seeing three or four per week is quite irritating.<p>Another thing I had noticed last year was the sheer number of messages accumulated in Spam; for decades there were just 150 or 200 at any given moment; starting last year, their number jumped considerably, and for a couple of months, Gmail's Spam folder had more than 1,000! Still, only very rarely I would see one in my inbox (I use IMAP and I exclude Spam from my subscribed folders; I only noticed their huge number when I had to use the web interface.)
I do, my mail email account's spam folder receives spam at a pace of one every 2 hours (my address got pwned) and one or two of them seem to make it to the inbox. I can't ditch that account right now as all email from government services and social circles are still received there as well as that address being used for something like 12 years now.<p>A change in the Google's antispam algorithms (is it still blacklisting?) might be the cause, and I additionally suspect the spam mails' extensive use of latin-looking unicode characters to evade the filters.
YES! Time was when spam <i>never</i> made it to my inbox (if anything Gmail's spam filters were overly zealous). Now, I get around 10 spam break-throughs per week.