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Ask HN: Is anyone else receiving spoofed gmail spam in their inbox?

56 points by xur17 ↗ HN
I have been receiving spam emails in my gmail inbox that are marked as being sent from my gmail account. The email headers show a non-gmail mail server, so it appears that someone is spoofing my email address to send me spam to get around the gmail spam filter. Several friends also mentioned that they are experiencing the same issue, and I see reports on reddit as well [0]. I'm curious how widespread this is. Normally <1 spam email makes it through to my inbox each month.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/GMail/comments/8dztcj/spam_getting_into_my_inbox/

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gre
Yep, got a couple of ``Sexy Girls Asian Girls Looking for US Men`` tonight.

This may be a spoofed message. Inbox couldn't verify that it was actually sent from your account.

1000units
It's some very strange targeting, to say the least. I got "AGWWG: ASIAN GIRLS WANT WHITE GUYS."
marsrover
Yeah. Couple every hour for about 5 hours now.
bestnameever
so many! Thought it was just me...very interesting it is happening on a large scale.
freehunter
Yup. I thought it was weird that this is the first spam message I got in gmail in a very long time. This post led me to go back and check and sure enough it looks like it was sent by me. Big problem.
augustocallejas
About an hour ago, I received 4 messages like this over the span of two hours.
askthrowaway
It happens also in Outlook, received 2 emails so far with a link to a phishing page
davewasthere
Yes, multiple right now. I think about four made it through.
trusk89
Omg, yes! Caused me to update my passwords and shit. I taught I was compromised.
mickrussom
I wish there was a solution to this. All crap from telus it looks like.
Elizabeth_1
I received two of these messages in the last few hours.. I doubt they really could have been directed personally at me, but I'm at least glad I'm not the only one who got such creepy Gmail's!!
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imauld
I don't ahve anything sent form my account but I do have some spam messages in my spam folder from a telus account

     <PmNxl@nieywdufb.telus.com>
Posing as the Gmail service team, they are saying I requested to have my gmail account deleted and to reply to them to stop the process.
snow4475
Yes,receive email actually said to me from me
unstatusthequo
Microsoft having fun after Google disclosed Windows security bugs? ;)