# Anyone else getting massively spammed? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 4, 2022, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-massively-spammed/960461 "2022-03-04T16:24:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-massively-spammed/960461/1 "2022-03-04T16:24:46Z")
For the last 7-10 days the spam filter on my Yahoo email has been overwhelmed. I’ve gone from getting 1-2 junk emails per day getting through the filter to \>40 every day. Not even good spam, either: boner pills, $500 to participate in a survey, coupons from beSt bUY, that sort of thing. I have a friend with a Yahoo account who’s complaining about the same thing in the same time frame. FWIW, it’s only my Yahoo account - my Gmail doesn’t seem any worse than normal. Anyone here see the same thing? I’m blaming Russia. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-massively-spammed/960461/2 "2022-03-04T16:34:44Z")
My Yahoo email spam fluctuates madly. One day I’ll have 23 spam emails (in my spam folder), then I’ll have 0-3 a day for a week. No idea why. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-massively-spammed/960461/3 "2022-03-04T16:35:34Z")
Did you do anything unusual online recently? I signed up to a couple of job search web sites and have been getting a ton of spam from fake job search websites. Stupidly AOL doesn’t recognize 90% of them as spam. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-massively-spammed/960461/4 "2022-03-04T16:37:39Z")
I use AOL, so not much of a problem. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-massively-spammed/960461/5 "2022-03-04T16:48:50Z")
At a quick glance, it looks like my gmail account gets ~100 spam emails a day, but Google’s intercept rate is somewhere north of 99.9%. Every now and then a spat of them will make it through the filter - presumably somebody somewhere figured out a temporary bypass. It’ll last a day or two and then quiet down. I haven’t noticed anything like that lately. I have suddenly started getting spam TEXTS this week out of nowhere, but the Verizon filter is also good at catching them and I found the button to turn off notifications when it throws one in the spam box. Out of sight, out of mind. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-massively-spammed/960461/6 "2022-03-04T16:55:13Z")
It’s sometimes _months_ between spam on gmail. Even my ATT mail gets one or two on _some_ days. I’ve only had one that was worth answering(in order to fuck with the spammer). Even that hasn’t resulted in an increase. Same with calls. I average a few a month even though I answer every one. \< wails \>What am i doing _wrong?!_ \< wails /\> ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-massively-spammed/960461/7 "2022-03-04T17:05:02Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > \< wails \>What am i doing _wrong?!_ \< wails /\> When you say months between spam, you mean even spam that you never see? Your spam folder is completely empty? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-massively-spammed/960461/8 "2022-03-04T17:09:38Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > > [@running\_coach](#): > > > > \< wails \>What am i doing _wrong?!_ \< wails /\> > > When you say months between spam, you mean even spam that you never see? Your spam folder is completely empty? - Totally empty. I check both emails every day and while I’m at it, I check the spam folder. Unless there’s spam that’s being blocked before it even reaches the spam folder but there’s no way I know to check that. Even if that’s the case, it doesn’t explain a similar dearth of calls. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-massively-spammed/960461/9 "2022-03-04T17:09:39Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > Anyone here see the same thing? I had been for several weeks on my primary email address (not the one I use for here) but they finally stopped. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-massively-spammed/960461/10 "2022-03-04T17:11:14Z")
Wow. I’m envious. I don’t even do a bunch of stuff that would justify getting tons of spam. It’s just a very old account with a very common name. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-massively-spammed/960461/11 "2022-03-04T17:11:48Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > For the last 7-10 days the spam filter on my Yahoo email has been overwhelmed. At one point, I had AT&T DSL service, and Yahoo! hosted the email for AT&T. At some point this relationship ended and the accounts were split so now I have an Yahoo! Mail account and an AT&T mail account, as does my mother. And I have noticed over the past month or so, lots of spam hitting the AT&T mailbox. Some goes directly to the junk folder while lots appears in the inbox and I’ve been moving them to the junk folder. At first I deleted them from there but since February 4, I’ve been letting them accumulate to see how many there are on average. Right now, the total is 293 messages, or close to ten per day. So, yes, something seems to have happened to the legacy AT&T (and presumably [sbcglobal.net](http://sbcglobal.net), [snet.net](http://snet.net), [pacbell.net](http://pacbell.net)) accounts. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-massively-spammed/960461/12 "2022-03-04T17:16:47Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > At one point, I had AT&T DSL service, and Yahoo! hosted the email for AT&T. At some point this relationship ended Weird. I have ATT DSL and Yahoo still hosts the email even though it’s an ATT address. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-massively-spammed/960461/13 "2022-03-04T17:18:55Z")
By “relationship ended”, I meant that they gave me a Yahoo! mail account separate from the [att.net](http://att.net) mailbox. And Googling, I find [this thread](https://forums.att.com/conversations/att-internet-email-security/getting-spam-at-attnet/6211843982cb5242ed03fd43) on AT&T Community Forums from someone complaining of the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-massively-spammed/960461/14 "2022-03-04T17:46:06Z")
Not massively spammed, but recently I started getting a lot of spam that is back-dated to August and September of 2021. It shows up as “unread” and I have to search for it to delete it. Not sure if this is intentional on the part of the spammers, but I’m now getting about ten a day. And it’s all low-class spam. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-massively-spammed/960461/15 "2022-03-04T17:51:09Z")
> [@ZonexandScout](#): > > And it’s all low-class spam. - There’s high-class spam? ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-massively-spammed/960461/16 "2022-03-04T18:03:24Z")
Good point. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-massively-spammed/960461/17 "2022-03-04T18:12:53Z")
If I get one more email about discount top hats and monocles… ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-massively-spammed/960461/18 "2022-03-04T18:32:27Z")
My sort-of throwaway outlook mail account started getting a bunch of spam about 6 weeks ago. A whole lot of “someone tried to log in to your facebook account”(I don’t have one), McAfee warnings, package not-delivered notices, “thanks for signing up” emails, etc. A whole lot of it is coming from gobbledygook dot com-type addresses. I figure that my fairly common name email address got added to a list and all the phishers are giving it their best shot. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-massively-spammed/960461/19 "2022-03-04T20:39:08Z")
Almost none in my Yahoo mail account. Just a few phishing attempts. Most of the stuff in my spam folder is kinda legit stuff I don’t want to see anymore. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-massively-spammed/960461/20 "2022-03-05T01:09:13Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > Wow. I’m envious. > > I don’t even do a bunch of stuff that would justify getting tons of spam. It’s just a very old account with a very common name. Dunno that being old is a factor. I’ve had my Yahoo email account since 2004 and checking it now, I’ve gotten 10 pieces of spam total since last May. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-getting-massively-spammed/960461.md?page=2)