2 years ago I would get 1 spam a week at the most. Last year it was 3-4 a week but nothing really noticeable. For the past few months it has been getting totally out of hand. Last night I logged off my computer and went to bed at 12. This morning I checked my e-mail at 7:30 and I had 6 spams in 7.5 hrs. In the last 14 hours 13 of the 16 e-mails in my box were spam. It is getting close to 1 an hour and I have no idea how. I don’t post on any other forum. I never enter my e-mail in website I don’t know. I don’t sign up for sweepstakes. I have Comcast internet service with a “spam guard”.
Am I alone here or is everybody getting this much junk e-mail?
HA! thats nothing. One account I’ve had for about 7 years gets hit with about 150 spam messages a day. My newer account, about 2.5 years old, never got one till 3 months ago. Now its about 1 per week. I figure in the next few years it will grow to where it eventually gets like the old account. Eventually your email address finds its way into cyberspace through viruses, spyware, and other crap. Sometimes its not even your fault. Got a friend that got a worm and got some nice spyware? Decent chance that will toss your email addy out there.
Set up a second account that you only use for ordering stuff or signing up for anything online. Use the other account for your personal and business use. Watch how the spam eventually finds its way into the first account a lot faster than the second.
A few years ago, my wife set up AOL e-mail addresses for the whole family. I have never used mine, never given it to anyone, done absolutely nothing with it. Every once in a while I log on just to see what’s there. It always has hundreds of junk e-mails in it. Since I have never disclosed this address, I wonder just how it gets mail? Since I don’t check it regularly, I have don’t know what the daily rate of spam is, but it must be more than a couple a day.
I’ve noticed that too, especially in the last 2 to 3 months. I now get at least 5 to 10 a day when previously I hardly got any.
One thing that I’m wondering about is that I recently put on an automatic reply when I went on vacation (first time I’ve done that since I usually check my e-mail all the time even on vacation). I’ve heard that the spammers will e-mail you a couple of times, but if they don’t get a response then they move onto other accounts. While I was away, they got a response from my auto-reply and now they know they’ve got a live one. The number of spam e-mails that I get has definitely gone up since my vacation.
I had 10 this morning on the home email account. Luckily 90% of them go into the junk email folder and then it’s a quick delete. At work it will range from none to 15 per day. We have a spam filter there that’s pretty good.
My Comcast spam filter catches nothing! It’s 0 for 40 in the last 2 days. Need any Viagra, Cialis, Valium, Ambiem, Fake Rolex watches, red hot penny stock tips? Just let me know and I can hook you up.
Our service provider that scans our corporate email keeps real time stats and they are at 66% of email they process is spam. You can purchase programs that will do a better job of reducing the spam if you want, it really comes down to how annoyed you get.
“Am I alone here or is everybody getting this much junk e-mail?”
I’ve been using the report spam feature on AOL regularly for years. I think it builds a personal list that keeps spam from getting through. I use the report spam feature instead of just deleting. As a result I get only 1 or 2 spams per week that get through. This is on my main email address too - the one I put on everything. Suspect messages go directly to a spam folder. I look at the folder daily to see if any valid messages are there, then delete everything. The tools are there, but you have to use them.
He was single handedly responsible for a large majority of all Russian e-mail traffic and it was all spam. We was warned and threatened but he very publicly said he didn’t care and would keep it up. They found him dead in his apartment. “He died after suffering repeated blows to the head.” While I would never advocate murder over spam, I now understand the motivation of the killer(s) just a little bit more.
The single greatest piece of legislation to come out of congress in the last 10 years was the do not call list. If our elected representatives had to actually read their own e-mail I think they would have a special place in Guantanamo Bay Prison for spammers
It’s definitely getting crazy. At work we’ve some sort of worm/virus, whatever…this morning, I’ve got 77 messages that are pure junk, and that’s been the average for the last week or so.
Getting real good with the “ctrl-D” button. Fastest in the west.