OT: getting hammered by spam on my email account

[eddief]

Over the past few months and more so now, I have been getting a ton o spam messages on my yahoo att mail account; like 50 a day. My yahoo email spam blocker does not seem to have a chance in hell to stop it all.

Wondering if this is something others have just recently started experiencing or simply par for the course?

[unterhausen]

That's weird, I have a yahoo account that I mostly keep around for paypal and I rarely get spam that doesn't get filtered.

[Tony]

If you've recently had an encounter with a scammer and called him/her on it, nasty or rude you may be getting payback.

[Old School]

Originally Posted by Tony

If you've recently had an encounter with a scammer and called him/her on it, nasty or rude you may be getting payback.

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scammer scorned"

but to be honest, you probably have your email open on your phone at the same time as a "free app".

[RWL2222]

I have been pushing my two college age kids to clean out their email junk, and they started using unrollme with good effect. Your address prob got picked up by a couple of spam cannons.

[makoti]

Originally Posted by RWL2222

I have been pushing my two college age kids to clean out their email junk, and they started using unrollme with good effect. Your address prob got picked up by a couple of spam cannons.

Not sure this would help him much, but for getting rid of subscribed to junk, it looks promising

[HenryA]

Look and see if you are on any data breach lists. A batch of hacked data probably just got sold again and you're in it.

[dave thompson]

If you've clicked the unsubscribe button on any electronic ad or e-mail you received, your e-mail addy has been passed around like a big roach.

[lavi]

I find Yahoo mail to be the worst for spam. I've had my account since '95 or so. It was my first personal email address. I only use it for buying crap now...but the spam is, and always has been, voluminous*.

My "real" email is gmail. Gmail seems to do a MUCH better job of filtering out spam crap.

[jimoots]

Sometimes I find the spammers work out a way around the algorithm, then it takes a while for Gmail to catch up.

Like you, I would have 10-15 obviously spammy emails that made their way to me. Report them as spam for a while and then it stops happening.

Also just a bit further on Dave's not around unsubscribing - you can definitely feel confident in unsubscribing from a reputable "emailer", such as a shop that you initially subscribed to.

Never unsubscribe from something that you never subscribed to (i.e. spam). It just confirms that you're reading the email, and like Dave says, increases the value of your email and it gets passed around more.

To that point, even opening a spam email can have the same effect. Often a spammer will hide a tiny little image (called a pixel) in the email that tells you if the email was opened or read. Again, this indicates someone who is alive and breathing read the email, increasing your emails worth to the spammer.

[dddd]

I've had the same increase in my ATT/Yahoo Email inbox, timed just like the OP's increase (i.e. since about February).

The spam does not get through to my free Microsoft inbox, nor to my I-phone's inbox (all use the same ATT/Yahoo Email account).

So yeah, Yahoo's email keeps accepting tons of repetitive spam messages from the usual suspects using names like Costco, Lowes, Ace Hardware, Grand Fortune Casino, Leaf Filter, McAfee Antivirus, Kohl's and Club Car Golf Carts.

Not only the Spam, but ATT's online email page also features a maximally-annoying pop-up visual with moving bright graphics of strange-looking, strangely-dressed personifications, making one feel like an insane asylum has perhaps been situated around the corner.

ATT used to be my cable/internet provider, and was hellish about calling my phone daily for a full year after I cancelled. Never again!

[eddief]

Wondering if there was a trend. The spams do not get through when the email is forwarded to my gmail account.

Originally Posted by dddd

I've had the same increase in my ATT/Yahoo Email inbox, timed just like the OP's increase (i.e. since about February).

The spam does not get through to my free Microsoft inbox, nor to my I-phone's inbox (all use the same ATT/Yahoo Email account).

So yeah, Yahoo's email keeps accepting tons of repetitive spam messages from the usual suspects using names like Costco, Lowes, Ace Hardware, Grand Fortune Casino, Leaf Filter, McAfee Antivirus, Kohl's and Club Car Golf Carts.

Not only the Spam, but ATT's online email page also features a maximally-annoying pop-up visual with moving bright graphics of strange-looking, strangely-dressed personifications, making one feel like an insane asylum has perhaps been situated around the corner.

ATT used to be my cable/internet provider, and was hellish about calling my phone daily for a full year after I cancelled. Never again!

[Chris]

Apparently I’ve won a ton of stuff from Kohls and Ace hardware, my McAfee is about to expire and I’m due a settlement for bad water at camp lejuene.

[jlwdm]

I just checked the spam folder on one email account.

McAfee expired 6 times

Dewalt Power Station - I have won five

Camp Lejeune - at least five

Jeff

[makoti]

Originally Posted by jlwdm

I just checked the spam folder on one email account.

McAfee expired 6 times

Dewalt Power Station - I have won five

Camp Lejeune - at least five

Jeff

Lejune is the new Nigerian Prince