Does the site that they originate from happen to have a name like AdultFriendFinder?
Hah, I am familiar with someone who has one of the most common first name in the US, as well as the most common last name, and they were also an early adopter of GMAIL, so they were able to get FIRSTNAME.LASTNAME@GMAIL.COM as their email address.
Boy do they get the garbage.
Well a quick scan of my spam folder shows HotAdultsDating, AdultsDatingList, Date Cute Russians, and TONS of phising, Nigerian Prince type emails. But those last emails are for Madeline. She’s an idiot. She’s the one that keeps giving my email address to her lawyer to send legal documents to. Gawd Madeline, you’re an idiot.
Honestly, for like at least half the people using my email as their own, I have their names, addresses and phone numbers. I could just call them up and tell them to stop lol But that’s more confrontation than I’m willing to deal with.
Unfortunately, once you are on the spammers lists, you’re stuck. Since emails are free, there is zero reason for a spammer to ever delete your address. If you do anything to try to get off the list, all you are doing is letting them know that they found an address that gets read.
Keep at least 3 email addresses.
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One only for friends and family. Don’t use gmail or yahoo or any of the large free email services for this. Your own domain name is even better. Ideally, this one you keep for life.
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Have a second email address for things you sign up for. Still don’t use gmail or yahoo. Don’t use your own domain if you have one. Amazon, online games, Netflix etc.
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Have a last one for utter trash that you have to create an account for, but you don’t care if you ever read any mail from them. Don’t bother deleting this one, it’s guaranteed to be a spam magnet.
Do you actually use Hangouts? Because, if you don’t, or only ever “dial out” so to speak, I’d just suggest turning Hangouts off. I don’t use it, but I seem to also remember the ability to limit it to people you know, if you do use Hangouts.
I did notice a huge increase of spam emails like this, and I didn’t do anything different with my main email address. And my name is not common. So it’s possible this has nothing to do with someone having entered your email address, and more to do with more aggressive spammers.
I mean, my spam folder went from less than a 100 per month (often even less than 50) to now over 500, and from no emails with emoji to having them littered with it. I even actually reported to Google that it was silly that they left animated emoji turned on for SPAM, and within a few days, that feature was turned off, suggesting I’m not the only one who complained.
Hence my belief that there is a new rash of porn spam out there.
Don’t look in ‘all mail’. Look in ‘Inbox’.
Can you set up a filter so all mails from the dating sites’ domains go right to your trash folder?