Spam from Gmail

Posted on: September 12, 2024, 11:15 am

The spam and fraudulent messages being sent from Gmail are at an all-time high, and it’s time for providers and reputation lists to stop coddling them.

My work at Antispam Alliance mostly entails dealing with abuse from Gmail because there is just so much of it. Our statistics show Gmail to be the top spam sender leaps and bounds over any other email provider.

Other IP reputation lists like Spamhaus and Barracuda should stop whitelisting Gmail. This only exacerbates the issue by making Gmail a spam heaven. They need to be held to the same standards of all other mail providers and given their size they have a higher level of responsibility to get the spam under control.

It’s only when they are held to account will they take the necessary steps to resolve this extraordinary amount of mail abuse. Reputation lists exist to hold networks to account for mail abuse and Gmail should be no exception.