Anybody notice an uptick in spam the last few weeks?

[Ting Ho Dung]

I've had the same email address for several years. I gotten 0 to 3 spams a day in those years. In the last few weeks it's gone up 10 fold. I'm getting 30 or so a day, many of which don't go to the junk folder but to the inbox. That's a big jump. I haven't signed up for anything. Haven't been to new websites. Nothing out of the ordinary here. I'm not a clicker. Just suddenly inundated with spam.

Anyone else?

Reasons?

[kizanski]

Yes. It's been a busy couple of weeks.

[BlueRedWhite]

Not at home, but at the job yes

Changes on the server's firewall and security policies???

[murkat]

" Anyone else? "

Yes.

" Reasons? "

Shit is going to hit the fan in our lifetime.

You have been advised.

Plan accordingly.

[atquinn]

Yup. I've noticed this too. Yahoo usually does a good job filtering out the spam, but a few have gotten through in the past weeks. And work? Forget about it!

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Austin

[MCChris]

The price you pay for checking out The Fappening.

[DaveL]

don't give any f-ers on craigslist your email. one time I responded to someone I thought I knew

and it's probably resulted in 1000 emails...

[Ting Ho Dung]

don't give any f-ers on craigslist your email. one time I responded to someone I thought I knew

and it's probably resulted in 1000 emails...

I haven't done anything differently that I can remember. I have several email accounts running locally into outlook. Only one is getting hit. And, I've never used CL but that is good advice.

[cmatthes]

Actually, I haven't - I rarely see spam emails, but why do I have the odd feeling that's about to change?

[zenmindbeginner]

Google has turned into a pile of useless links on Safari (on my Mac) but Safari on my iPhone is still okay.

I noticed an uptick of spam around 6 months ago.

[Sugartune]

More spam = increased visits to random porn sites.

Mine seems to be forever progressive....

[Thundersteel]

Yup, I've noticed that, too.

[aknapp]

If you haven't already, change your e-mail password.

It can't hurt, it may reduce the spam if you account has been hacked, and most people, including me, don't change our password nearly as often as they should.

[velorush]

Work has gotten to the point of being unbearable just in the past couple of months; seems worse every day.

It reminds me of when we moved back to TN - we signed up with the local ISP. A few months later they let us know they were going to provide, FREE OF CHARGE, spam software that would take care of the (at the time, nonexistent) spam! Immediately I was receiving hundreds of messages a day, most caught by the free spam filter. What they'd done was make of ton of gravy money selling all our email addresses to the spammers. Their only cost was the spam catching software.

We run our own email server at work (Exchange) with a hardware firewall in place. When the spamming began I was taking the time to blacklist every IP address that originated these messages. The list grew to the point it was timing out before it was finished, so we're kind of stuck.

Our outside IT advisers have offered us a third-party service called AppRiver. It's a subscription and works like the service offered by that old ISP - segregates suspicious emails for review, lets others through. We're reluctant to add additional costs, but it's really getting to be a problem with productivity.

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[Ting Ho Dung]

Work has gotten to the point of being unbearable just in the past couple of months; seems worse every day.

It reminds me of when we moved back to TN - we signed up with the local ISP. A few months later they let us know they were going to provide, FREE OF CHARGE, spam software that would take care of the (at the time, nonexistent) spam! Immediately I was receiving hundreds of messages a day, most caught by the free spam filter. What they'd done was make of ton of gravy money selling all our email addresses to the spammers. Their only cost was the spam catching software.

We run our own email server at work (Exchange) with a hardware firewall in place. When the spamming began I was taking the time to blacklist every IP address that originated these messages. The list grew to the point it was timing out before it was finished, so we're kind of stuck.

Our outside IT advisers have offered us a third-party service called AppRiver. It's a subscription and works like the service offered by that old ISP - segregates suspicious emails for review, lets others through. We're reluctant to add additional costs, but it's really getting to be a problem with productivity.

Edited fur grammumer

I am running postfix or sendmail, don't remember which, on my webserver. I have around 5 accounts of my own running @triaspis.com. For some reason only one is receiving spam. If it gets unbearable I'll just shut that address down. Can't stand spam. I don't run any local software but I do have two "programs" on the server, Spam Assassin and something that looks for blacklisted RBL's. Yet these are getting through. Several from a garage coating company, something called iPad touch, Raybansunglasses, really random stuff that I've never gone online to look at or sign up for. I must have pissed somebody off and they signed me up so now I can't send out a blanket email telling everyone I've changed my address.

[Cary]

I haven't but I have noticed the gov apparently seems to have completely stopped enforcing the Do Not Call List. :angry: