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Just found a gmail spam folder...I am an idiot, warning to all!

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I opened a gmail account ages ago just for entering email comps and that is all I use it for. So already gmail splits emails into 3 tabs at the top and I thought the Social and Promotions tabs were the equivalent of spam. NO!

Yesterday I accidentally stumbled across a spam folder on a drop down list on the left and in there was a prize I'd missed and sadly now too late to claim. Worse than the sadness of that is the horrible sinking feeling that I wonder what else I've missed as its automatically deleted after 30 days...

Anyway, its my own fault so lesson learned. I'm posting here just in case it helps anyone else. I feel like its the equivalent of the 'others' folder in facebook that you might not know about it unless its mentioned. Or it could just be that I'm an idiot :rotfl:

Happy comping x
Many thanks to everyone who posts competitions and works so hard to provide all the answers!
Best wins this year so far: £100 Hobbycraft Voucher, £50 cash, GoPro Camera

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  • hannonle
    hannonle Posts: 2,191 Forumite
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    Gmail on PC and IOS doesn't have tabs like that and is set out like any other email account with a menu bar type thing on the left hand side for inbox, spam, trash etc.

    I assume you must be on android or some sort of app.

    It sucks that you've missed out but at least you can keep an eye on it for the future.
    Thank you to everyone who posts on the competitions boards. You all rock!
  • Money_maker
    Money_maker Posts: 5,471 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Googlemail on my pc (IE) has this too. I 'lost' emails in the 'promotions' tabs!
    Please do not quote spam as this enables it to 'live on' once the spam post is removed. ;)

    If you quote me, don't forget the capital 'M'

    Declutterers of the world - unite! :rotfl::rotfl:
  • purple45
    purple45 Posts: 2,473 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    hannonle wrote: »
    Gmail on PC and IOS doesn't have tabs like that and is set out like any other email account with a menu bar type thing on the left hand side for inbox, spam, trash etc.

    I assume you must be on android or some sort of app.

    Its a PC that I'm using, never any other method of logging on as thats all I have. I just have to add the spam folder to my daily checklist! I just hoped mentioning it on here might stop someone else making the same mistake.
    Many thanks to everyone who posts competitions and works so hard to provide all the answers!
    Best wins this year so far: £100 Hobbycraft Voucher, £50 cash, GoPro Camera
  • One-Eye
    One-Eye Posts: 69,947 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    To make the Spam folder more visible:
    1) Click on the Settings Icon and select "Settings" from the menu
    2) Click on "Labels"
    3) Change the Spam from "Hide" to "Show"
    4) The Spam folder now appears here in the main list.

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  • purple45
    purple45 Posts: 2,473 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Thankyou One-Eye that makes it alot harder to miss!
    Many thanks to everyone who posts competitions and works so hard to provide all the answers!
    Best wins this year so far: £100 Hobbycraft Voucher, £50 cash, GoPro Camera
  • sammy1968
    sammy1968 Posts: 103 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary I won, I won, I won!
    I use Gmail I also find with Gmail that if you put your name and winner,congratulations, well done in the search bar at the top of Gmail it will bring up emails with that content too.
  • and you can always run the ocasional search
    [in: trash] congratulations
    etc...
    “We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.” - Alan Turing (1912-1954)
  • purple45
    purple45 Posts: 2,473 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Thanks for suggestions. I only use this for email entrys to its not my main comping email account and it gets less than 10 emails a day, so I honestly never thought I needed to do anything else! I do all the search safeguards with my main account that is bombarded with hundreds!
    Many thanks to everyone who posts competitions and works so hard to provide all the answers!
    Best wins this year so far: £100 Hobbycraft Voucher, £50 cash, GoPro Camera
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