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Last week I received a spam email from ~generic dumb scammer #199209842982~ here it is for your amusement: https://imgur.com/YYqOgYE I've blurred the sender because it might have been a hijacked account, and it's not like it's hard to get a new gmail account anyways. You can also see that I've blurred all the other people too. Yeah, the scammer cc all his targets. I was in a good mood, so I replied and made fun of him and warned all the other recipients that, "hey, just in case you're distracted, yes this is a spam email". I didn't use any curse words, or strong language, but I was a bit edgy. Two days later, my google account was suspended. Apparently, my account was being used to send unwanted e-mails. Ha! I just became a spammer. And let me tell you, it was very frustrating to be blacklisted like this. A little context for you, I'm a DevOps engineer and I've been using gmail for the past 15 years. I'll skip the cl
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