# Spam like I have never seen before! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 6, 2001, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-like-i-have-never-seen-before/64514 "2001-05-06T05:07:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-like-i-have-never-seen-before/64514/1 "2001-05-06T05:07:34Z")
OK, beat this. Today I signed up for the “[Howitworks.com](http://Howitworks.com)” newsletter, that has to be where this came from. I just opened my Hotmail (which I use as my main email). and I see an email from the hotmail staff telling me that my account size it too large. I think “WHAT? I just cleaned out all the crap (couple hundred old emails) a couple of days ago!!” I then look at my “bulk email folder” where most spam is filtered (thank god). I had **900** emails from the same spammer!! Not even porn. **900!!** Luckily I could just delete the whole folder. You know… I have used hotmail for almost 4 years as my main email address. For 3 of those 4 I got almost NO spam, and if I DID I knew where it came from and why. Then one day I maybe entered my email address into a website to win a contest or something. Or. A wonderfully good hearted person entered my address into a not so wonderfully good hearted E-CARD site that sold my inputted address, and now I get about 80 -100 spams per week… luckily most are filtered into the bulk mail folder that gets regularly deleted. I can deal with that. But I sure as hell hope I don’t start getting 900 spams a day from now on. Whats your record? ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-like-i-have-never-seen-before/64514/2 "2001-05-06T05:10:48Z")
I warn everyone: _Please_, do not send me E-cards as they are justa way to harvest email addresses. I still get an E-greeting now and then. I feel people who send those things ought to hung by their ears. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-like-i-have-never-seen-before/64514/3 "2001-05-06T07:20:21Z")
Well, you have me beat. Once I got 500 identical emails from someone overseas. I was amazed and outraged. I didn’t even want to download it (I was using Outlook Express) so I deleted it from Mindspring’s web mail. It took frickin’ forever. I emailed my ISP about it, haven’t heard back - but haven’t gotten any more spam like that again either. (Knock on wood.) ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-like-i-have-never-seen-before/64514/4 "2001-05-06T08:23:34Z")
My hotmail account isn’t quite that bad. What’s been irritating me lately is that the Bulk Mail folder does NOT get any spam made to look like it comes from an [msn.com](http://msn.com) address. Why? Because the Bulk Mail couldn’t POSSIBLY filter out MSN content! It used to be I saw zero spam in my actual inbox until this started happening. Ah well. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-like-i-have-never-seen-before/64514/5 "2001-05-06T11:53:06Z")
I just went to my own Hotmail account & checked the folder. No spam. Never has been, never will be. NYYAAAAH-NYYYAAAHHH! 😛 😛 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2001, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spam-like-i-have-never-seen-before/64514/6 "2001-05-06T19:57:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Drastic \* > \*\*My hotmail account isn’t quite that bad. What’s been irritating me lately is that the Bulk Mail folder does NOT get any spam made to look like it comes from an [msn.com](http://msn.com) address. Why? Because the Bulk Mail couldn’t POSSIBLY filter out MSN content! > > It used to be I saw zero spam in my actual inbox until this started happening. Ah well. \*\* Thats exactly the same here! I get porn spam everyday from an email address that I can NOT filter. Why? Because the only thing that appears from the “sender” is @msn.com with NOTHING in front of it. This ticks me off no end.