Gmail and spam

I regularly (more than once a week) receive obvious spam direct into my Gmail inbox. It looks like: Hello, handsome man, I would be very happy to meet a man like you and have a coffee with you to make each other happy. The ‘from’ address usually contains ’love’, ‘sweet’ or even ‘sexy’, such as ’lovesakina33@gmail.com’. I generally think gmail’s spam detection is pretty decent, other than these obvious attempts to scam lonely single men I don’t get much other spam directly in the Inbox, and if I dare to look in the spam folder it contains mostly stuff that yes I didn’t need to see. ...

November 14, 2025