Avalanche of spam lately

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#304429 2-May-2023 20:43

Is it just me or has the amount of general email spam rocketed up? I seem to be getting buried by offers ranging from air fryers to Russian wives lately.

Normally the email (hotmail, gmail) spam filters pick these off, bot not lately.

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#3070648 2-May-2023 20:50

No increase I have noticed to my gmail

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#3070649 2-May-2023 20:53

Haven't noticed much difference with my personal email hosted at Fastmail. Checking my old personal Gmail shows a steady stream of spam daily. Microsoft O365 at work is pretty spam free although the filter can be a bit too good at times--I do have to check my spam folder quite often. It was the same at my previous employer who also used O365.

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#3070661 2-May-2023 21:55

Since about 6 months ago I have noticed a huge increase in the amount of spam coming into my outlook.com inbox, It literally just started one day and no amount of me reporting it seems to really help, probably get around 2-5 a day into my main inbox, when it might have been one a month before the avalanche started.

I had hoped it might sort itself out but unfortunately hasn't got any better

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#3070669 2-May-2023 23:15

Lots of casino emails in my gmail this week.. lots.. Like really crazy

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#3070670 2-May-2023 23:26

not so much email spam but more Txt stuff that is recognised as likely spam

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#3070675 3-May-2023 00:08

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No increase I have noticed to my gmail

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#3070683 3-May-2023 06:24

Yeah, I see a lot more hitting the inboxes on my domain lately, but the filter catches 90% of it.

Just a part of being online....

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#3070685 3-May-2023 06:40

K8Toledo:

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No increase I have noticed to my gmail

Ditto

No changes to Xtramail either that I've noticed - phishing/spam/scam emails still as voluminous as ever.

Not sure if avalanche is the right word.....never ending torrent perhaps? ;)

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#3070710 3-May-2023 08:22

Was getting lots of Spark spam, mostly you have been infected or your antivirus subscription is due (I'm an  owner) but that has gone last 7 days. Now I am getting linkedln crap for jobs via  Message app.

Whilst the difficult we can do immediately, the impossible takes a bit longer. However, miracles you will have to wait for.

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#3070718 3-May-2023 08:53

TXT spam? Yes. Email spam? No, haven't noticed.

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#3070768 3-May-2023 10:53

I have two email addresses; one for which I am very selective about who I give it to, and the other one is set up to send everything to quarantine so that I can be a bit more casual about it.

The first one has hardly any spam as you would expect. The second one also has a surprisingly low volume of spam.

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#3070855 3-May-2023 15:44

No gmail increase - still very low.

But, just recently, both my wife and I are getting a goodly lot of txt spam with +61 codes.

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#3070857 3-May-2023 15:46

Yup seeing a big increase across customers.

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#3070935 3-May-2023 17:40

alasta:

I have two email addresses; one for which I am very selective about who I give it to, and the other one is set up to send everything to quarantine so that I can be a bit more casual about it.

The first one has hardly any spam as you would expect. The second one also has a surprisingly low volume of spam.

Me too. I'm feeling left out.

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#3072206 4-May-2023 12:16

alasta:

I have two email addresses; one for which I am very selective about who I give it to, and the other one is set up to send everything to quarantine so that I can be a bit more casual about it.

The first one has hardly any spam as you would expect. The second one also has a surprisingly low volume of spam.

I also have 2 as above. However, somehow my "private" email address has become a spam magnet, maybe just because it too-closely resembles a real Scandinavian name @gmail.com.

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