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Gmail users reporting major spam uptick

Monday, June 1, 2009

Users of Google's free webmail service Gmail have been tweeting like crazy on Twitter that their inboxes are being inundated with spam.

The problem, according to posters at Google's Gmail help forum, has been ongoing for about the last month to six weeks.

But more than a month later more Gmail users are increasingly voicing complaints on the Google forums and via Twitter that their spam levels have noticeably jumped up.

On Monday, a post on the Search Engine Roundtable forum observed that "[i]t seems like something spiked up bad today, based on the volume of posts over the weekend."

Close to 100 posters have responded to a question posed by Gmail user HobbyFarming reporting that hundreds of spam emails are getting through email filters into the user's inbox.

"[T]he spam is hitting the inbox over and over 100s per day that is NOT an exaggeration and I am about ready to go back to Yahoo Mail because I now see why people get frustrated with GMAIL. And this is a NEW issue as things were never this bad until the last few weeks," HobbyFarming wrote back on April 21st.

A response, posted April 22nd from a Google employee named Sarah, said Google was aware of the problem and was looking into it.