Gmail Spam Filter Not Working - Guide to Fix

dasyshah

The spam filter on Gmail runs its own, and it isn’t much you can do about it. But, in case your Gmail spam filter is not working for you, so there are limited options that you can follow to fix this problem.

Your Account might be hacked
Don’t mark spam emails as not spam
Create a filter for emails using “Unsubscribe”
Delete overlapping filters
Edit Gmail spam filter
Import a filter to your Gmail account
Check if the “Skip the Inbox” filter is working properly.
Check Broad incoming message filter

For more read - https://emailspedia.com/

petergroft

Gmail may not be Syncing
The most common reason why the Gmail Spam filter is not working is that Gmail is not syncing. To check that, Skip the inbox filter has to work correctly. If it isn’t, that is where the problem lies. The steps to check it will be explained in the article further.

You have a Compromised Gmail Account
It might be rare, but not impossible, to have a compromised account nowadays. So for this, we will be discussing the steps further in the article and help you out with how to create a new filter on Gmail.

You clicked the Spam Unsubscribe Link
With spam emailing on a rise, it is possible that you may have clicked on a spam email that led you to an unsafe website, thus leading to the malfunctioning of Gmail Spam Checker. So for this, all you have to do is put your email address into the box to unsubscribe. The steps for it will be discussed in the next section of the article.

Your Account is marked as Spam by Gmail
While it doesn’t usually happen, sometimes there can be an issue from Gmail’s end as well. If you ever made an unintentional action on Gmail that made Gmail suspicious, there is a possibility that your account may have been marked as Spam by Gmail. For instance, since a lot of spam emails include words like ‘cash’, if you have used it often, this could lead to your account getting marked as spam by Gmail.

Hope This Works,
Peter