I Removed 80% of Spam and Scams in 2 Days Using a Simple Gmail Filter
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Instead of chasing spammers, which use their email and domain as a one-time thing, I decided to go the other way around and let only a handful of trusted senders come into my inbox, and let everything else get trashed.
I started with a list of subscriptions and created a simple Gmail filter with this format “{(from:sender1 OR from:sender2 OR from:sender3)}” in “Doesn’t have” field + “Delete it” action.
Next 2 days, I only got 2-3 emails I actually needed and 0 spam - it’s been like this for almost 2 years now.