Spam/Phishing email detection for gmail.com email addresses

[Darth_Fixer]

Gmail email addresses are allowed to contain as many periods as they want in the unique username field and gmail ignores them.  Spammers/scammers have finally learned this and now keep using their accounts that would be filtered by blocked senders by adding periods to their usernames.

so

a spammer

vankathiru@gmail.com

is the same as

v.ank.athiru@gmail.com

or
v.a.n.k.a.t.h.i.r.u.@gmail.com
or
v.......a.n.k.a.t.h.i.r.u.@gmail.com

in Hotmail and most others these would be separate addresses, but not so with gmail.com

so can you please pass this on to the spam/phishing detect team that if the domain is gmail.com to strip the period characters out of the usernames when identifying reported spam/scammers by email address

[Jon]

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