Have anyone been receiving a lot more spam e-mail lately?

My Hotmail inbox has been getting a lot more spam. Has anyone else noticed an increase in spam e-mail?

 

I get NO spam at all on mine so i would start looking at the sites you used your email

 

Spam? What's that?

(Yes, I know what spam is, but I haven't been getting any at all on any account)

 

No more than the usual few.

 

Gmail seem to filters out 99.93% of my spam.

 

As the economy dips, more people are more desperate for money and things like that. Easier picking for scammers.

 

I get no spam in any of my accounts except my one throwaway account

 

I'm not getting signifcantly more spam recently either. You might try taking a look at your Spam Filter and your Blocked Emails lists. Sometimes something causes settings to change (something you did, or perhaps a corruption of some sort). You might try raising your level of protection on the Spam Filter, and add new email addresses to your Blocked Emails list. (As each of those spam emails comes in, add each one to your spam list.) Eventually the amount should slow down again to whatever is normal for you.

 

Kevinla, as Imperfect1 was kinda hinting on above...IMO most likely this is due to something you may or may not have done recently. Maybe signed up on some site that was just about advertising/selling your email address with others...deliberately to spam. I had to cancel one of my @hotmail accounts like a yr. ago due to this. It was getting real bad....

 

I have been getting significantly more SPAM. I have done nothing different or posted my email anywhere. I do, however, have a ridiculously easy email address dating back to when the internet was born.

As such, I get a lot of of idiots creating accounts for other things using my email because they do not wish to use their own.

The upside to this is a lot of idiots will actually use my email for pay services. I can play world of warcraft just about any time I wish simply by going to Wow, typing in my email, and hitting rest password. This sends a reset link to MY EMAIL, and then I can reset the password and play on the other guys credit card until he cancels the account.

I have had tons of facebook pages and myspace pages. Those are fun. SOme 14-year-old will create a page with my email, and asa result I start getting tons of emails alerting me that so and so has posted a comment to my site, so I do the same thing, log in, have a password reset to my email, then log in and rewrite the idiots page.

 

If you're [email protected] I owe you an apology.
Sorry for the last 10 years.

 

Why doesn't anyone use "<randomaddress>@example.com"? Example.com will never, ever exist. It's like the 555- prefix for phone numbers. It'll always validate as a correct address through every system I've ever seen, yet it'll never send mail to anyone, it'll always cause errors for the sender.