Banks, ecommerce sites biggest spammers; Gmail tackles them well

I generally check my spam folder every week or two, lest any of the legit emails should land there. This morning there were 380 mails designated spam by Google, out of which a few were malicious (faked YouTube, and MoneyControl, and others), and most others from websites selling stuff on the Internet, and banks selling credit cards or personal loans.

The e-shops were mainly Indian sites that I may or may not have visited in the past, but certainly few of the biggest names in the Indian ecommerce space. Jabong, Myntra, Zovi, and FashionAndYou, who compete with each other in their business, also seem to be competing with each other on sending spam; all their emails appear contiguously in my spam folder, add in the screengrab below. And I'm sure they send one every day.

The only useful email was one from Twitter, a notification that someone followed me. I am not sure why this one landed in spam; I've been setting other Twitter notifications in my inbox.

Another sender that was marked as spammer was Bajaj Allianz, rightly so, because though they send me emails to renew my car insurance that is due to expire on 31st December, they've been doing that for the whole of December, even though I renewed it already from another provider, and informed them more than once when they  had called me for the same renewal.

Barring this, I realised that Gmail handles spam pretty well. I seriously am not a big fan of mailers about merchandise being sold online. I mean, I know all these companies anyway, why, few of them are founded by classmates and friends. I'd buy stuff when I need it, not when I receive an email. Dear ecommerce players, please spend your time and effort on something more productive. Spam only turns people off.