Spamalot

[RX8]

In the last 10 days or so the amount of spam emails from my hotmail/outlook account has sky rocketed for me. I went from maybe 30-40 spam emails a day to more than 300, maybe more as I delete them all day long. Outlook does a decent job of moving them to the junk folder but I still need to sort through that folder to see if anything important was deemed as junk in error. Just this morning I received 54 emails from a sender “iCloud 50GB Free” all in a span of less than 20 minutes. The actual sender emails are random letters but ending in the same @hotmail.es. I am also getting many various survey requests, emails saying I shouldn’t pay my electricity bill and emails about items that I have “won”.

Just me or are the spammers ratcheting up the throttle across the board?

 

[susieq]

I had noticed, probably starting about a year or so ago, that the spam had been increasing in waves, some days nothing or 1 or 2, some days 50 or more. I started hovering my mouse over sender, if I didn't recognize it, it got marked as spam or junk. Took a month or two ~ and LOTS of patience ~ but now I only receive 1 or 2. I still open my spam folder to see if there is anything that shouldn't be there.

 

[pedro47]

We are not receiving any spam emails daily. But we received about twenty spam phone calls per day every day.

Celebrity Cruise Line send a daily cruise vacation email offer every day. LOL. That is not spam email.

All other spam emails are blocked by our Spectrum account.

 

[clifffaith]

I am afraid to “unsubscribe” to spam email fearing they’ll just pass my email on. No problem telling Big 5 or Knix I don’t want anymore emails, but I ignore the others. My iCloud email I keep pretty clean and don’t order anything off of it, and that keeps me to a handful of “legit spam” unlike my yahoo email which probably gets 100 per day.

 

[dioxide45]

You would think so called AI would have solved this for us.

 

[klpca]

I am afraid to “unsubscribe” to spam email fearing they’ll just pass my email on. No problem telling Big 5 or Knix I don’t want anymore emails, but I ignore the others. My iCloud email I keep pretty clean and don’t order anything off of it, and that keeps me to a handful of “legit spam” unlike my yahoo email which probably gets 100 per day.

I still use yahoo as my primary (since 2004 - I tried switching but it was just easier to stick with it). In the spam folder, you can block emails before you delete them. I made a concerted effort to do this a few months ago and I can go days before anything shows up in my spam folder.