alt Hacker NewsGoogle suspend email accounts that get lots of spam reports. It happens a couple of times a year for salespeople in my company who use Gmass (a bulk email sending tool).
I mention it only as a useful data point, and in the absence of anyone else on the thread mentioning that Google have robust email abuse monitoring.
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I hope you realise, it does sound like you are suggesting that salespeople in your company are essentially spammers.
I guess you can only report spam through the gmail web interface which the FSF aren't using (because they're not using gmail, for obvious ideological reasons).
So, just to clarify, the salespeople are spamming cold addresses, or are they opted in or existing customers?
> Google have robust email abuse monitoring
But only in Gmail then? Where is it possible to report a spam from a Gmail address received on a non-Gmail inbox?
Google is being a real PITA as the receiving side for people who try to self-host their mail or who use small providers. They should at least be good citizen on the sending side, which it seems they're not. They are killing email.
I think in this case and all the others.
They're not sending emails directly from their gmail address.
But they are adding victim emails to other Google services and then Google themselves send them invitations emails.
And if you name your service like "Google helpdesk - password reset" or something like that.
Invitation email from Google will look very official, but URL in the email will be controlled by the attacker.
It's pretty old working technique used for phishing for years now.
Spam report does nothing, since you're reporting official Google email.
I wouldn't say that's robust email monitoring at all. It's embarassingly bad. Gmass shouldn't exist and your salespeople should be out of a job.