# Upsurge in spam? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 17, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upsurge-in-spam/433893 "2008-01-17T17:50:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upsurge-in-spam/433893/1 "2008-01-17T17:50:40Z")
In just the last week I’ve been getting lots more spam than before, maybe 4 or 5 a day instead of 2 or 3 a week. My e-mail spam filter has been turned on for ages, and is still on. Is this just me, or are others experiencing the same thing? Any idea why? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upsurge-in-spam/433893/2 "2008-01-17T18:21:40Z")
We noticed last week that we were getting tons of spams about Apple gift cards one day, then Starbucks gift cards the next (maybe a dozen in a row). All of them from the same from name but different from address and IP. I see that earlier today I got a handful from “Life Changing Ideas.” Luckilly our spam filter caught them all, but yeah we did notice something. Also I see from my daily reports I was getting 40-50 spam emails per day (caught in the filter) now I am getting 80-90. Whee! ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upsurge-in-spam/433893/3 "2008-01-17T23:00:10Z")
Yeah, I’ve been getting a heck of a lot at work and home. I finally installed MailWasher, hopefully it’ll help. If anything, it makes it a lot faster to get rid of. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upsurge-in-spam/433893/4 "2008-01-18T02:06:37Z")
My spam at work has quadrupled in the last week or so. Bless spam filters, amen. ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upsurge-in-spam/433893/5 "2008-01-18T02:17:52Z")
[QUOTE=Gary T] In just the last week I’ve been getting lots more spam than before, maybe 4 or 5 a day instead of 2 or 3 a week. [/QUOTE] 4 or 5?!? I wish I only got 4 or 5 a day. My main address gets something like 100 a day. It’s my old one, so I had it before I knew to be careful about it, but I’m afraid of getting rid of it because some old friends have it. Recently there was a story about some software that was used by many adult sites getting hacked, last October I think. They were saying that people’s names and email addresses were probably lost, but no credit card numbers. That could probably increase spam for some people. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upsurge-in-spam/433893/6 "2008-01-18T04:44:14Z")
I usually never get spam on either my Gmail account or the one I have set up through my website, but within the last 2 weeks or so I have suddenly been seeing much more spam. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upsurge-in-spam/433893/7 "2008-01-18T04:56:53Z")
I have won the Irish Lottery every day for five days! I’ll bet I really won it, and they’re just trying really hard to notify me. For my cynicism, I will lose out on all that money. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upsurge-in-spam/433893/8 "2008-01-18T21:57:08Z")
I’m getting a lot of “replica watch” spam now along side my regular dose of viagra spam. ---
**Author:** ![Solfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Solfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Solfy)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upsurge-in-spam/433893/9 "2008-01-18T22:11:19Z")
I’ve been getting spam at work. Normally nothing comes across the uber tight filters they have. My spam trap addys have been seeing an uptick as well. ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upsurge-in-spam/433893/10 "2008-01-19T11:24:08Z")
Pfffffffft. One of my domain names has been recently spammed, almost, but quite entirely, to death. I think the best (worst?) day, was something in the order of 192,000 pieces of SPAM. ---
**Author:** ![SomeUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@SomeUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SomeUserName)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/upsurge-in-spam/433893/11 "2008-01-19T11:30:10Z")
Tax refund time. People have money to spend on worthless get rich schemes, get their penis enlarged or pay a $100 customs fee to get that $100,000,000 lottery prize.