I Think I See a Trend in the SPAM Today
Like you, I receive a ton of SPAM and I hate it with a passion. I’m so happy that Gmail has some really good SPAM filters. I regularly get questions as to why Gmail blocks nearly 100% of the SPAM, but the one that came with my website doesn’t.
The very first thing you need to understand is SPAM is big business, meaning it makes a ton of money. The other thing you need to understand is that Google is offering you free Gmail for a reason, and that reason is so they can use what they learn from your emails on their Business solutions like G-Suite.
Every single email that you send or receive is read and parsed by Google and what it learns from your emails, is used on its Premium, business services, like G-Suite and Workspace. The other thing you need to know is Gmail does a ton of volume, meaning that they have over 120 billion emails pass through their servers every single day. Gmail is responsible for over 30% of all emails exchanged globally. This means that if Joe the SPAMmer sends out a blast of SPAM messages, Google has likely received thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of copies of that SPAM email. Your small email account would like to receive one or two if that. So Google is sampling millions of emails and instantly updating their SPAM filters.
Now, let’s look at SPAM statistics for a few seconds. In December 2021, over 45% of all email traffic was deemed as SPAM. Gmail SPAM filters are so effective that only 0.1% of the messages that you get in your inbox are SPAM and only 0.05% of the automatically spam-flagged messages are not actually SPAM.
My SPAM folder on Gmail seems to have a theme today, lol. Seriously, looking at the below snapshot of my SPAM folder (this is an account I have just for testing. I replied to every SPAM email for a week, and now I get about 1,000 SPAM emails a day in this box. The really sad part is someone must be clicking on them and making purchases getting catfished, or sending SPAM messages wouldn’t be such a big thing. I mean if you are a spammer and you aren’t making money from it, then you will stop and find a new scam, right?
