Spam email (again)

[ladymuck]

Nothing to say, just trying to get my name on every section of the front page of the forum. Sorry

Normal service then

[sadkingbilly]

Nothing to say, just trying to get my name on every section of the front page of the forum. Sorry

now THAT is sad.

[northernladuk]

Nothing to say, just trying to get my name on every section of the front page of the forum. Sorry

[sadkingbilly]

90% of my spam is dating type ones with picture of ladies asking to meet up.
It's too much of a coincidence for multiple spamming groups to latch on to dating, then freebies etc at the same time..

a consequence of watching too much online porn IMHO

[northernladuk]

Yeh, had a rather convincing one from one of loony lady's accounts with her name asking me to buy a gift card. Used to get a lot from an old neighbour's account too. Currently get lots to my BT internet account from what seem to be reputable organisations but none of those are believable, free emergency kits from the AA etc.

The free gifts one from Asda, AA, you name it used to make up a majority of my spam for a couple of months but it seems to have almost completely gone now. 90% of my spam is dating type ones with picture of ladies asking to meet up. It's like a throw back from 20 years ago with dating type spam and mails with files attached. As I say, it defintely comes in ebbs and flows so it's clearly one group behind it. It's too much of a coincidence for multiple spamming groups to latch on to dating, then freebies etc at the same time. These setups must be huge and send an unbeliveably large amount of spam if it's going to everyone in the world multiple times a day.

[sadkingbilly]

got spam, - make fritters

[woody1]

Had my first spam in ages this morning. Forwarded from my old hotmail account, so obviously not filtered by this but caught by gmail.

From Abattoir Equipment Supplies, with a dodgy looking attachment.

[xoggoth]

Yeh, had a rather convincing one from one of loony lady's accounts with her name asking me to buy a gift card. Used to get a lot from an old neighbour's account too. Currently get lots to my BT internet account from what seem to be reputable organisations but none of those are believable, free emergency kits from the AA etc.

[woody1]

I don't think it's the platform that gets targeted for spam, its whatever list the spammer has and it's nothing to do with being hacked

In the past I've had spam where friends/contacts email accounts appeared to have been hacked. Everyone in their address books were getting spammed. This was with hotmail and btinternet.

[northernladuk]

Have you considered changing your email address? Maybe also switching to another mail platform that doesn't get spammed/hacked as often.

Yes, it's a pain but it might be worth it in the long run. When I did it, I set hotmail to forward everything to gmail. Thankfully, it didn't forward anything that it had filtered as spam.

No. As mentioned been with this one 30 odd years. This suggestion came up last time I was having issues. Started a gmail one up but just too complex to move my entire life from this one. It's more sign ups with everything than actual mail but a bit a spam isn't enough to turn the whole thing over.

I don't think it's the platform that gets targeted for spam, its whatever list the spammer has and it's nothing to do with being hacked