I don't use any #Google accounts for mail anymore, but I do check an old one occasionally. Today I found an email from Google from a few days ago warning me that they were going to delete an old account of mine. It seems perfectly legit, I haven't used that account in ages, and it was sent to a recovery email address.
And placed in Gmail's spam folder :-) #Email#GoogleWorkplace#Gmail
Viele können gefälschte E-Mails von Banken nicht erkennen
Eine Phishing-Mail von einer echten Mail der Bank zu unterscheiden, fällt vielen schwer. Das zeigt eine aktuelle Studie von Verbraucherschützern. Die Opfer bleiben nicht selten auf den Kosten sitzen.
I remember the days when people were furious Google was scanning their emails to serve ads. Now we’ve reached the point that everything you send and receive is being filtered through its AI model and you’re expected to love it.
Today is the 20th anniversary of the launch of Gmail, Google’s email service that some interpreted as some kind of April Fools’ joke at the time. But it would go on to become a dominant player in the email space. Tech Radar takes a look back at Gmail’s rise that began when we still “demanded a hyphen between ‘e’ and ‘mail.’” https://flip.it/PD4MNI #Tech#Email#Google#Gmail
Hmm, I can see junk messages from #Gmail on my phone, but not in #Thunderbird as that folder doesn't appear in Go >Folders. Am I missing something obvious here?
For anyone who might have missed it last week, I wrote an article about why I switched from Gmail to Proton Mail and you can read it and hopefully share it with others via the link below.
@protonmail also suggested that I apply for the partner program, which I did but haven't heard back yet. Hoping to hear back in the next day or two and hoping that I get accepted.
Emails are not being forwarded from my old Gmail account. I have verified it.
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All emails from @404mediaco go to my spam folder. I have changed spam rules for both the sender address and not 404-media.ghost.io but this hasn't helped. My old Protonmail, however, is receiving them without issue.
Thinking of making the switch from #gmail to #protonmail .
NGL, the prospect of switching my email is intimidating, to say the least. Ive had gmail since it started basically, so its intertwined in my life. And I wont delete the account because, you know, it's basically impossible not to have gmail, esp since I use #Android Would love any thoughts/advice (don't suggest an iphone. I hate apple products). I do like the privacy aspect and am taking other steps to limit sharing of data. thx!
There is an ongoing spam attack on the fediverse for the last couple of days. It's more widespread than before, as attackers are targeting smaller servers to create accounts. Before, usually only mastodon.social was targeted and our team could take care of it. For server administrators out there: If you don't need open registrations, switch over to approval mode. If you do, blocking disposable e-mail providers is a massive stopgap to the problem. Mastodon also supports hCaptcha.
@Gargron "disposable e-mail providers"
lol in 2 years I've seen around 20 #spam accounts trying to register on our instance. Gmail-share: 💯%!
It really is an advantage to only manage an instance for German-speaking users: more or less nobody registers with a #Google address - and if a registration comes from #Gmail, you can easily save yourself the verification work.
Just got an interesting phishing spam I’ve not seen before: mentioning the victims’ email addresses in comments in a google doc (that purported to list bank details for payroll). The interesting part us that the email is generated by and legit comes from Google. Victim clicks the link and, they hope, fills in their info.
@mattblaze Unfortunately, this is nothing new. While I believe that Google has taken some steps to limit this kind of Docs-based scam, they in general remain lackadaisical about spam/phishes they generate (as opposed to inbound spam/phishes), especially for #Gmail, which probably generates about 50% or more of the phishes I see that hit non-Gmail sites.