And It’s Not Just Gmail — Outlook Is a Spam Sewer Too
As much as Gmail deserves the heat, let’s not pretend Outlook is innocent here. If Gmail is the front door spammers are walking through, Outlook is the back window they’re crawling into.
These same shady SEO and web development peddlers have taken to creating free Outlook, Hotmail, and Live.com addresses to bypass Gmail’s increasingly decent (though still flawed) spam detection. And what’s worse? Outlook’s spam filters are even less reliable.
It’s the same pattern: an email arrives from a sketchy-looking Outlook address like [email protected] or [email protected], with a subject line like “Improve Your Google Ranking” or “Website Redesign Proposal.”
The body of the email is the same template garbage—broken English, absurd claims, and fake names—and somehow, it lands right in your inbox. Why? Because Microsoft’s Outlook spam filtering is stuck in 2010. It’s slow to learn, easy to manipulate, and barely flags these templated garbage messages as suspicious.
And just like Gmail, Outlook allows these free accounts to be spun up in bulk with very little friction. No real identity verification, no email send limits that matter, no proactive enforcement. These platforms are being weaponized by spam factories, and the tech giants hosting them are still acting like spam is just a “cost of doing business” rather than a quality of service issue.
We’re not asking for miracles—we’re asking the two biggest email providers on the planet to stop being passive hosts to spam operations run from digital sweatshops. Gmail and Outlook both have the resources and the AI capability to end this flood of junk. The only thing missing is the will.
Google, Microsoft, it’s time. No more excuses. No more turning a blind eye. Start cracking down on this flood of SEO and web dev spam originating from Gmail accounts. Your users are tired of wading through it. The tools exist. You have the power. Do the right thing—for your platform, your users, and the integrity of online communication.
