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Email spam
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2022 7:26 pm
by naednek
I woke up today with a bunch of spam. Phishing attempts. Not sure why all of a sudden but it's annoying as I continue to receive them. They are from different email addresses offering different products. Any idea to get them to stop?
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Re: Email spam
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2022 9:30 am
by Chraolic
I've also gotten a lot more spam recently, but I just thought it was because I signed up on AliExpress. The week after I got like 20-30 spam mails per day and thought "Oh yeah, I really should have used a burner address for that.".
Re: Email spam
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2022 11:03 am
by LawBeefaroni
I've had a few phishing blasts where I'd get like 4 or 5 emails from a bank or similar. Usually at a bank where I don't have an account. I just ignore them unless it's a new account notice, I which case I call the bank.
naednek wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 7:26 pm
I woke up today with a bunch of spam.
We don't judge.
Re: Email spam
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2022 1:29 pm
by Rumpy
I've noticed that scammers keep an eye out on popular sites. With reluctance, I signed up with a popular site due to a suggestion by a friend, and I'm not sure how (in that they knew I even had an account) but less than a year later, I started getting lots of password reset emails. It wasn't a site I was using much and it wasn't really working for me a year into it, so I deleted my account and the emails stopped.
Re: Email spam
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2022 1:45 pm
by Jaymann
From the title of this thread I thought it was spam that the mods re-titled.
Re: Email spam
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2022 10:51 pm
by Kraken
Lately, Russian women have been seeking my friendship. I figure it must have something to do with the impending invasion of Ukraine.
Re: Email spam
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2022 5:29 pm
by Kasey Chang
I got tricked by a job website and now I get endless spams from them. Turns out they fake relist the jobs that weren't there.
Re: Email spam
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2022 5:49 pm
by Isgrimnur
ALWAYS use a burner for job searches or other major life events.
Re: Email spam
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2022 1:13 am
by Hrdina
A few weeks ago I started to get massive amounts of spam in my inbox, as if gmail had totally disabled its spam filter. Every day I was marking 30-50 messages as spam, hoping that the thing would finally catch up. That may have happened, as now I'm getting a couple hundred messages in my Spam folder and only a handful in my inbox.
I'm not even sure what I may have done to trigger that. I don't remember signing up for anything or giving my address to anyone new at the time.
Re: Email spam
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2022 1:38 am
by Daehawk
I skip this thread so much because every time I see the title I think its a spam post and has been locked.
Re: Email spam
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2022 2:48 am
by Kraken
Hrdina wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 1:13 am
I'm not even sure what I may have done to trigger that. I don't remember signing up for anything or giving my address to anyone new at the time.
I hear you. I sent one dick pic to a lonely Russian girl and holy cow. I probably shouldn't have sent Dick van Dyke.
Re: Email spam
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2022 3:55 pm
by Rumpy
Hrdina wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 1:13 am
A few weeks ago I started to get massive amounts of spam in my inbox, as if gmail had totally disabled its spam filter. Every day I was marking 30-50 messages as spam, hoping that the thing would finally catch up. That may have happened, as now I'm getting a couple hundred messages in my Spam folder and only a handful in my inbox.
I'm not even sure what I may have done to trigger that. I don't remember signing up for anything or giving my address to anyone new at the time.
It can unfortunately happen if the address is in a collection due to a leak, and if the address has been around for awhile. My hotmail or whatever you want to call it now, used to get lots like that and it comes in waves. Used to get email from instagram on email address and I don't even have an instagram account, let alone on that one.
Re: Email spam
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2022 4:51 pm
by Pyperkub
naednek wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 7:26 pm
I woke up today with a bunch of spam. Phishing attempts. Not sure why all of a sudden but it's annoying as I continue to receive them. They are from different email addresses offering different products. Any idea to get them to stop?
Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk
This kind of depends on who your email service provider is. Need more info.
Re: Email spam
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2022 3:17 pm
by naednek
Pyperkub wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 4:51 pm
naednek wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 7:26 pm
I woke up today with a bunch of spam. Phishing attempts. Not sure why all of a sudden but it's annoying as I continue to receive them. They are from different email addresses offering different products. Any idea to get them to stop?
Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk
This kind of depends on who your email service provider is. Need more info.
gmail.
I think their filter was messed up . I'm getting less now, or at least it's putting them in the spam folder.
Re: Email spam
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2022 1:14 am
by Hrdina
Rumpy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 3:55 pmIt can unfortunately happen if the address is in a collection due to a leak, and if the address has been around for awhile. My hotmail or whatever you want to call it now, used to get lots like that and it comes in waves. Used to get email from instagram on email address and I don't even have an instagram account, let alone on that one.
Yeah, this is an address I have had for a long time.
I also get email for various noxious things like facebook & twitter even though I have never signed up for them.
naednek wrote: ↑Thu Feb 10, 2022 3:17 pmgmail.
I think their filter was messed up . I'm getting less now, or at least it's putting them in the spam folder.
Mine likewise was a gmail address, and it has also gotten better.
I don't know whether their filter was messed up, or someone figured out a way to punch a hole through it and it took google a little while to adapt.
Re: Email spam
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2022 2:32 pm
by Rumpy
I do know that sometimes scammers will always get better and find new ways to make their emails look more legitimate, which comes with better ways to fool the anti-spam systems.