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Yes, I keep getting a bunch of “Your GEICO quote 1234” variations. My thought is spam is like weather fronts at this point: while it feels like that subject line should be obviously flagged up, there is probably some other storm of porn bot spam that is causing the machine learning or filters to bend in just such a way that the car insurance spam can seep through.


I’m getting those too - and the content is an obvious low-res image, not sure how it’s getting through.


In the past week I got a bunch of obvious spam in my inbox. They all had a garbled subject line with numbers instead of letters, missing spaces and wrong capitalization, and the body was an image. It's crazy, how are they getting through? Maybe the filter gets thrown off by the unintelligible (to the machine, as a human can understand the meaning) subject line?


I’m also getting these insurance-like ones. Several passing for Statefarm. I might have received 50 in one day.


I've been getting the same one. I mark each as spam but that doesn't seem to do anything.


Same. I'm getting the ones as OP and the Geico ones...mark as spam, more show up within a day or two.


Same here, I flag them as spam but gmail never puts them into the spam folder.




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