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Lately a lot spams have bypassed detection and they all have a very unique garbage like appearance in their subject and sender. Examples for subjects "- ²C'o n G r-@ at°", "H°ealTh", "C°on gr aT <", ".C'o n-g r a t..!". Examples for sender "S A - M s .°", "P'ro Sta Te", "A'ir PodS", "S' AM S.°". It'd seem easy enough if only Yahoo can use NLP to get a basic assessment on how nonsensical these are.

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  • Steve Oberhofer commented  ·   ·  Report

    I've submitted similar feedback and all get closed by lumping my feedback into another item Yahoo blames on the user. Its clear that Yahoo is letting this obvious junk email through to push people to pay for spam protection other free services provide as a basic level of service. Its impossible to use Yahoo mail for anything semi-serious anymore since its 99.9% obvious spam. I've moved any real email use to gmail or outlook since they offer basic spam protection to obvious spam. Until Yahoo gives us the old protections they used to have, its worthless.

  • Lopaka Akapol commented  ·   ·  Report

    Is yahoo allowing these spam letters to continue to exist, only to sell better spam email protection? It seems so. Yahoo is doing nothing to stop this invasive practice and the spam cannot be blocked.
    Examples for subjects "- ²C'o n G r-@ at°", "H°ealTh", "C°on gr aT <", ".C'o n-g r a t..!". Examples for sender "S A - M s .°", "P'ro Sta Te", "A'ir PodS", "S' AM S.°".

  • steve winner commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have the REVERSE problem! Perfectly legitimate email from a responsible retailer is constantly sent to spam, and I keep marking it NO SPAM! There seems to be no way to mark it legitimate1

  • Johnathan Magee commented  ·   ·  Report

    literally has spam in the wording. its all a way to pay more bs. looking forward to the stone fight

  • Bob Sammon commented  ·   ·  Report

    I've got news for you guys: I have been a paid "premium" user for years. I get the same spam emails as you do. So, don't upgrade thinking it will improve your spam situation. They know this is happening, and they know how -- they can't come up with a simple AI program to recognize what we all do immediately?

  • John Zimmerman commented  ·   ·  Report

    Maybe a massive mail-in campaign to yahoo customer service might get someone's attention.
    I tend to doubt it, bit it never hurts to try.
    Just open up the obvious spam email, and FORWARD it to:

    mail.tech@cc.yahoo,com

    Use whatever verbiage/message you want, but feel to copy/paste the following message:

    Why does yahoo mail allow this OBVIOUS SPAM to end up in my INBOX instead of going DIRECTLY into my SPAM folder? If yahoo can't filter OBVIOUS SPAM, then why should I continue using yahoo mail? Do you recommend that I switch to GMAIL? If not, then why should I continue using an email that CAN'T filter out OBVIOUS SPAM???

  • John Zimmerman commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is OBVIOUSLY a BLATANT ATTEMPT by yahoo to discourage users from continuing to use the basic yahoo email service and make the users feel like they MUST UPGARDE to the PAID email service because of yahoo greed!!! yahoo is more interested in revenue than on customer service/satisfaction. MASSIVE INCOME from advertising is not enough, so the greedy company expects to enhance revenue by getting more money from their users.

    I have written the following email to yahoo customer service (and I use that term lightly!) citing dozens of OBVIOUS SPAM EMAILS:
    Why does yahoo mail allow this OBVIOUS SPAM to end up in my INBOX instead of going DIRECTLY into my SPAM folder? If yahoo can't filter OBVIOUS SPAM, then why should I continue using yahoo mail? Do you recommend that I switch to GMAIL? If not, then why should I continue using an email that CAN'T filter out OBVIOUS SPAM???

    Almost every response comes back with all the different ways that the USER can TRY to filter spams, and, of course, lists the option of UPGRADING to the PAID EMAIL program.

    These SPAMS are so obvious that FIFTH GRADERS could program the yahoo computers to filter them out. But again, yahoo INTENTIONALLY chooses to focus on ADVERTISEMENT REVENUE and PREMIUM email revenue. Anyone notice that on your list of emails in your INBOX, yahoo has inserted what looks like an email, but in reality, they have SNEAKILY inserted an AD in hopes that the user will inadvertently click on that AD so yahoo could collect MORE AD REVENUE!

    I've also written to them asking why I should continue using yahoo with this type of horrible filtering system. NO REPLY, OF COURSE!!!

    I don't expect things to change because it's ALL ABOUT CORPORATE GREED!!!

  • Nancy MacCallum commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am noticing a LOT of very obvious spam are making its way through the Yahoo filter lately. Not sure why. They are the most obvious type of spam I have seen, and they are winding up in my inbox.

  • Valerie Borton commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes, I was coming to say the same as everyone else. A few months ago, I've started getting several blatantly obvious spam emails every single day. It's getting very frustrating. This has been my primary email for many years and I don't want to cancel my account but I will if this continues. It's ridiculous. Even my mom who isn't tech savvy at all can see that they're spam. I'm pretty sure any spam filter could catch them.

  • Johnathan Mun commented  ·   ·  Report

    Getting spammed like nobody's business. Yahoo! please step up and clean out all these clear spam emails. Will have to quit and move otherwise. Loads of other alternatives.

  • Orin Joshua Mozon commented  ·   ·  Report

    this is why I'm here too. Please fix this so I don't have to move to a new email!

  • Jagdish Patel commented  ·   ·  Report

    First time on uservoice - I didn't know about this.

    An example email of this sort that I receive when viewed in raw has:

    ---bit of the raw message--->
    Received: from 92.255.107.158 (EHLO eastday.com)
    by 10.253.62.153 with SMTP;
    Wed, 20 Jul 2022 16:55:29 +0000
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    <---

    that IP address is from Russia, while the domain eastday.com is registered in China. A miss-match.

    Wondering if yahoo email can provide users a way to filter messages with fake from which in this example email was from "<>" i.e. blank.

    Anyway, there should be ways for yahoo email to filter this sort of spam at the receive node.

  • Nikos Karavitis commented  ·   ·  Report

    There is a huge amount of spam (phishing spam) coming in from Gmail. Random names...coming up with invoice topics. Can Yahoo and Google work together to alleviate these fake accounts coming in? Can you make sure they verify themselves with a phone number? Can you flag new accounts signing up with foreign IP addresses? The amount of fake accounts from Yahoo, Google and Facebook are seriously out of control. You all need to do a better job to flag these fake phishing accounts. Deleting your email does nothing. The spammers will find you. The solution is for Yahoo,Google and Facebook to flag (fake accounts) better. Thank you.

  • Kaitlin May commented  ·   ·  Report

    I get hundreds a day. this was always my priority email but now it's not even worth it for me to open it anymore. I'm looking for a solution or I have to ditch my Yahoo. I put these emails in spam, I block the senders, and then the next day I have at least 50 more.

  • Joseph Harding commented  ·   ·  Report

    Lately a lot spams have bypassed detection and they all have a very unique garbage like appearance in their subject and sender. Examples for subjects "- ²C'o n G r-@ at°", "H°ealTh", "C°on gr aT <", ".C'o n-g r a t..!". Examples for sender "S A - M s .°", "P'ro Sta Te", "A'ir PodS", "S' AM S.°". It'd seem easy enough if only Yahoo can use NLP to get a basic assessment on how nonsensical these are.

  • John Zimmerman commented  ·   ·  Report

    Maybe a massive mail-in campaign to yahoo customer service might get someone's attention.
    I tend to doubt it, bit it never hurts to try.
    Just open up the obvious spam email, and FORWARD it to:

    mail.tech@cc.yahoo,com

    Use whatever verbiage/message you want, but feel to copy/paste the following message:

    Why does yahoo mail allow this OBVIOUS SPAM to end up in my INBOX instead of going DIRECTLY into my SPAM folder? If yahoo can't filter OBVIOUS SPAM, then why should I continue using yahoo mail? Do you recommend that I switch to GMAIL? If not, then why should I continue using an email that CAN'T filter out OBVIOUS SPAM???

  • John Zimmerman commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is OBVIOUSLY a BLATANT ATTEMPT by yahoo to discourage users from continuing to use the basic yahoo email service and make the users feel like they MUST UPGARDE to the PAID email service because of yahoo greed!!! yahoo is more interested in revenue than on customer service/satisfaction. MASSIVE INCOME from advertising is not enough, so the greedy company expects to enhance revenue by getting more money from their users.

    I have written the following email to yahoo customer service (and I use that term lightly!) citing dozens of OBVIOUS SPAM EMAILS:
    Why does yahoo mail allow this OBVIOUS SPAM to end up in my INBOX instead of going DIRECTLY into my SPAM folder? If yahoo can't filter OBVIOUS SPAM, then why should I continue using yahoo mail? Do you recommend that I switch to GMAIL? If not, then why should I continue using an email that CAN'T filter out OBVIOUS SPAM???

    Almost every response comes back with all the different ways that the USER can TRY to filter spams, and, of course, lists the option of UPGRADING to the PAID EMAIL program.

    These SPAMS are so obvious that FIFTH GRADERS could program the yahoo computers to filter them out. But again, yahoo INTENTIONALLY chooses to focus on ADVERTISEMENT REVENUE and PREMIUM email revenue. Anyone notice that on your list of emails in your INBOX, yahoo has inserted what looks like an email, but in reality, they have SNEAKILY inserted an AD in hopes that the user will inadvertently click on that AD so yahoo could collect MORE AD REVENUE!

    I've also written to them asking why I should continue using yahoo with this type of horrible filtering system. NO REPLY, OF COURSE!!!

    I don't expect things to change because it's ALL ABOUT CORPORATE GREED!!!

  • Ellen Miller commented  ·   ·  Report

    Getting worse and worse....clearly the ones populating my inbox are SPAM and Yahoo doesn't appear to have any algorithm set up to block them

  • Perry Kannan commented  ·   ·  Report

    Too many spam emails. Please block them, or tell us a way to increase filtering emails.

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