Received over 5500+ phishing emails from 3 google.com accounts

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Received over 5500+ phishing emails from 3 google.com accounts

Today, Oct 7 2025, starting at 2pm CST (it is now 8:24pm) I have received 5500+ phishing emails from 3 google.com accounts. The return path is always a series of letters, numbers, +sign, etc ending in @chime-notifications.bounces.google.com>. I contacted Apple today on the phone because of the massive scale of emails and was basically told that the only thing I could do was to block the email account. I have forwarded some of them to reportphishing@apple.com but, I am NOT going to do this for all 5500+ phishing emails. I can't believe that as a security measure there isn't something more that Apple can do in order to block or blacklist these once they've been reported. This is ridiculous!

I have looked for a customer service phone number for Google in hopes that I could at least report the massive phishing emails but, was unable to find one.

The 3 accounts are:

1. ********* (noreply-maps+*****@google.com)

2. ******** (noreply-maps+******@google.com)

3. ********** (noreply-maps+*******@google.com)

Does anyone have any other ideas?

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iPhone 14 Plus, iOS 18

Posted on Oct 7, 2025 6:35 PM

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Answer 1

Allan Jones

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Oct 7, 2025 6:49 PM in response to kitumilson

Try this from Google Mail Help:

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/9277792?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop

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kitumilson Author

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Oct 8, 2025 1:57 PM in response to Allan Jones

Thanks. These are coming to my iCloud email addres so there’s no way to report within Gmail. It apparently has been happening to others, both iCloud and Gmail users as there are numerous posts about it in the Google Community site.

I think I have received close to 20,000 of these phishing emails. They seemed to have stopped at the moment so maybe all the posts in the Google Community site or reporting as spam within the Gmail service.

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Answer 3

AlWeir

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Oct 8, 2025 2:13 PM in response to kitumilson

Google accounts have nothing to with Apple. You should be looking for a email address you can send Google. Gmail is turning into one of the biggest spam email suppliers and if anyone is going to do about it, it's going to have to be Google, but with AI now running rampant on software the chance of that happening is probably nonexistent.

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