[chrishynes]

Most spam I get to my gmail inbox nowadays is itself from an @gmail.com address :-/

[jjav]

Indeed. Nearly 100% of the phishing we get at my employer (which I monitor) is from gmail.com addresses.

[londons_explore]

It's because Mike Hearn retired from the Google anti-abuse team - their bot protections went downhill from there, and now bulk Google accounts sell for a few cents each.

It's easy to make money when you can send out thousands of spam emails, each with hundreds of recipients, for under a cent.

[xorcist]

And Facebook, for some reason. Which is weird as I've never signed up for any Facebook owned service. Never looked into how they do it, but they keep coming.