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March 08, 2023 03:50PM
Does anyone know what has happened to yahoo email? I have been using this email account for over twenty years for mystery shopping and surveys. They had always been very good about separating the spam into a seperate spam folder. Then a few months ago something changed. They are still using the spam folder, but some of what must be spam is now going into the regular folder. Most of this is for sweepstakes I never entered. There is also a lot of this going into the spam folder. So much is going in there that I can no longer check each one and move it to the regular email folder if it turns out not to look like spam. Has yahoo decided not to be as careful when weeding out spam? I have also noticed that they seem to be promoting some sort of offer that is supposed to help me weed out spam which is something I think they should be doing. I know that spam is increasing, but this had not happened with my other email accounts.

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March 08, 2023 04:03PM
been using yahoo for 25+years. i can assure you this has always been an issue.

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March 08, 2023 04:04PM
It seems like it has gotten worse lately.

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March 08, 2023 04:17PM
My gmail that I use primarily for shops got absolutely flooded with spam a few mths back and took me a while to weed it out so you're not alone! I don't use Yahoo but if you have the time to keep flagging it as spam, hopefully that will help as enough users do it.
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March 08, 2023 04:25PM
YES!!! Yahoo has always been a mess but this last month I have been finding at least half of my mystery shop emails in spam. One or two a month might have slipped through previously but this is crazy. Companies I have been getting non-spam mail from for 20 years are now being deemed "spam" by yahoo.
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March 08, 2023 05:06PM
Spam is everywhere, it is not just Yahoo.

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March 08, 2023 10:48PM
@cooldude581 wrote:

been using yahoo for 25+years. i can assure you this has always been an issue.
Hah, another old-schooler! I still use a geocities email (which has routed through yahoo since 1999.)

OP, spam is an ongoing challenge for all mail services. And if they haven't started already, it won't be long before spammers use AI so they aren't even using the same form letters. Yahoo has to dance between letting spam through and not sending too many good things there, and it's not easy.

I suggest setting up a custom folder for MSCs and going to Settings -> Filter to create a rule for each one. (For example, one rule says anything where the "from" field contains "ipsos.com" goes to my Mystery Shopping folder.

It doesn't guarantee nothing goes to the wrong place. But spam will never go in that folder since it doesn't fit your filter. And MSC emails are much less likely to go to spam if you have a rule that says to always put them in Mystery Shopping.
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March 08, 2023 10:49PM
We mean that yahoo is suddenly randomly sending large amounts of legit emails to the spam folder automatically.
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March 08, 2023 11:35PM
I use prodigy, which became Yahoo which became AT&T, and yes, tons of my legit mystery shop emails are now going into spam. I just manually added a bunch of addresses to my contact list, which hopefully will help.
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March 08, 2023 11:41PM
I too can confirm the same as reported by others above. The spam senders have been able to "outsmart" the current spam filter algorithm.
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March 09, 2023 08:03PM
If you an add the emails to your contacts, it shouldn't come up as spam.
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March 09, 2023 10:51PM
@shopnyc wrote:

If you an add the emails to your contacts, it shouldn't come up as spam.

Nah because:
A. Adding every scheduler with every company would be a massive endeavor.
B. My intentionally stark contact folder would be way too crowded.
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March 14, 2023 01:09AM
My original Yahoo email, with Yahoo as the provider, rarely messes up and puts spam into my inbox. OTOH, the Yahoo account I have through Verizon is awful! Legit mail goes into spam, spam ends up in my inbox, and there are many times when I simply don't get an email. My husband, whenever he has to email me, sends to both accounts. My "old-fashioned" Yahoo account receives it and puts it into the right box. My Verizon Yahoo account shuttles it to spam, or, more often than not, doesn't receive it at all. I lost a freelance client a few years ago because a job I sent out a day before the deadline never was received by the client.

I learn something new every day, but not everyday!
I've learned to never trust spell-check or my phone's auto-fill feature.
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March 14, 2023 01:49AM
My email was orininally obtained when I got DSL from one of Ma Bell's offspring. Since then it's been tossed off to yahoo and neither company claims responsibility for it.
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March 21, 2023 02:04AM
It's been shutting down all day today.
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