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

[xur17]

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/

[lexandstuff]

It's extremely widespread. Take a look at the Twitter search feed for Gmail+spam: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=gmail%20spam

[grizzles]

Yeah a ton. I posted about it before I saw this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16894604 reply

[updated]. Thanks xur.

[xur17 → grizzles]

I think you linked to the wrong post - this is the correct one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16894604

[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.

[ApostleJohn]

Yes I see a lot of people reporting it on Twitter but oddly nothing online or in the news about it.

[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!!

[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.

[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 → gre]

It's some very strange targeting, to say the least. I got "AGWWG: ASIAN GIRLS WANT WHITE GUYS."

[kyo3]

Appears to only be certain accounts, my "spam" email is getting loads of this.

[askthrowaway]

It happens also in Outlook, received 2 emails so far with a link to a phishing page

[trusk89]

Omg, yes! Caused me to update my passwords and shit. I taught I was compromised.

[augustocallejas]

About an hour ago, I received 4 messages like this over the span of two hours.

[carol1970]

It seems to be a massive attack against Google... so people gets scared and then do a massive-viral claim on social media and every where while these "Telus people" are LOL at Google and at us... and by the way... this is happening in Australia too :(

[unstatusthequo]

Microsoft having fun after Google disclosed Windows security bugs? ;)

[mickrussom]

I wish there was a solution to this. All crap from telus it looks like.

[davewasthere]

Yes, multiple right now. I think about four made it through.

[BlazedFire]

Yeah.. I see that all of them say: Mailed by telos.com

[BlazedFire → BlazedFire]

telus.com

[marsrover]

Yeah. Couple every hour for about 5 hours now.

[snow4475]

Yes,receive email actually said to me from me

[contentedgypsy]

Same here. Glad it's not just me.

[bestnameever]

so many! Thought it was just me...very interesting it is happening on a large scale.

[startupflix]

Is there any solution?

[donttrack]

Yes...

[gargarplex]

+1

[startupflix]

Me too.

[senectus1]

yup me too

[quickthrower2]

Not me

[panarky]

Gmail puts a warning box at the top of message:

"This may be a spoofed message..."

Gmail knows it's spoofed so why is it in the inbox instead of spam?

Example: https://imgur.com/a/bQbn48V