Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
690 points by IliaLitviak | 168 comments
An Ask HN post by a job seeker complaining about receiving unsolicited sales emails after posting in the Who Wants to Be Hired thread.
#spam on Hacker News
13 stories tagged spam, newest first.
FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account(daedal.io)
354 points by pabs3 | 203 comments
A Mastodon post by Thom Zane asking for a human contact on Google's Gmail team to report a spammer who sent 10,000+ spam emails via Gmail.
Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?(spencermortensen.com)
319 points by jaden | 93 comments
An article comparing email address obfuscation techniques for websites and their effectiveness against spam harvesters; the page returned a 403 Forbidden error.
Spammers are better at SPF, DKIM, and DMARC than everyone else(toad.social)
345 points by pabs3 | 182 comments
Mastodon post by Bill Cole citing SpamAssassin mass-scan stats showing spammers implement SPF, DKIM, and DMARC better than legitimate senders.
My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting a Romance Fraudster(bentasker.co.uk)
391 points by acdha | 142 comments
Ben Tasker's blog post recounting how he engaged with and baited a romance scammer who contacted him via spam emails.
Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted(bryanbraun.com)
852 points by bryanbraun | 168 comments
Bryan Braun's blog post advising buyers to check a domain name's past history (spam, bad reputation) before purchasing it.
Bots, so many bots(wakatime.com)
348 points by welder | 362 comments
WakaTime blog post by Alan Hamlett claiming over 60% of ProductHunt's million-plus user signups are bots, and describing how he analyzed this.
I Received an AI Email(timharek.no)
576 points by imadj | 442 comments
Blog post by Tim Hårek describing a personalized, apparently AI-generated cold email pitching a CMS called Wisp after referencing his blog posts.
Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email(gabrielsieben.tech)
348 points by gjsman-1000 | 250 comments
Personal blog post by Gabriel Sieben brainstorming what a redesigned second-generation email system and protocol could look like.
The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit(aftermath.site)
671 points by thinkingemote | 476 comments
An Aftermath blog post arguing that the internet is increasingly filled with low-quality AI-generated content, with machines talking to machines.
Gmail, Yahoo announce new 2024 authentication requirements for bulk senders(blog.google)
538 points by ilamont | 381 comments
Google Keyword blog post announcing that starting in 2024 Gmail will require bulk senders to authenticate email, support easy unsubscribe, and stay under a spam threshold.
The Frustration Loop(herman.bearblog.dev)
431 points by zdw | 122 comments
Herman's blog post describing his ongoing fight against human spam farms abusing the free Bear blogging platform for SEO backlinks.
50% of new NPM packages are spam(blog.sandworm.dev)
417 points by miohtama | 277 comments
Sandworm blog post reporting that roughly half of newly published npm packages are SEO spam, illustrated with a Futurama meme.