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How's Your Spam Recently?

Have been getting many spam emails from different addresses asking for confirmation of something which I ignore
 
Just perused (and cleared) my spam directory. For February till now (Feb. 12):

Spam (i.e. unsolicited advertising): 12
Phishing attempts: 7

So, more or less average activity.

By far the majority are caught by my spam filter and sent to the spam folder. Occasionally, one slips through and I then block the address, which will send subsequent mails from that address to the spam folder.

Hans
 
I get little to no spam in my email boxes, maybe a spurt every few months of a few emails, apparently when i give my address out on a new site.

Not making any Herculean efforts, either. Running Firefox with Ghostery on all my devices, never created a Google sign in account. Will only give out my email for legit transactions where I don't really have a choice. I also pretty much never see ads anywhere. The only downside is getting flagged to disable ad blocking on some news sites, and frequent requests to "sign in with your Google account". Otherwise they appear to pretty much leave me alone now.
 
I entered my name into something from Facebook. Looked legitimate but it was a spammer. Nothing happened for months. Many months later I started getting spam. I know it was them by the name I gave them. I may need to throw away that email address. Luckily not many people know about the address.
 
Yeah. I entered my email for a private men’s newsletter on Facebook and suddenly started getting all the spam I talked about. There was no private newsletter
 
I get few spam calls on the cell phone, and most of them are pretty obvious when the number is posted, so I don't answer them. When I do make the mistake I try to rectify it quickly by filling the ether with vile obscenities involving nutritionally dubious consumption or inadvisable self-service with a rasp. Occasional ones on the land line, but not many. Spam on the computer is pretty well controlled, but recently a new one has popped up quite literally, with a bogus McAfee site putting push ads in my notifications, via browser. Notifications that I had porn sites, viruses, that my nonexistent McAfee subscription had failed and Windows was going to be blocked, etc. As it happens, McAfee's web site tells you just what to do about it.
 
Well, my density of spam/scam mails reflects the fact that my e-mail address is on a public web page. This because I work for an association.

I don't have a land line, haven't had one for over a decade.

Stuff on my phone is very limited, at least currently, although that number is also public.

Hans
 
I haven't gotten any email scam-spam at any of my emails in ages. I kind of miss them, actually. Some of them were hilarious.

I do get a legit ad now and then from someone who I had recent contact with in some way. In those cases, I just immediately mash their cease and desist link and go on with my life if I don't want those emails. Always works, too.

But overall, I get no emails that I have an issue with. I really only get around three total emails per day in the most active account.

Phone call spam? Sheesh, don't even get me started. My landline is no longer connected to a ringing phone. It's just there so I can give it out to businesses that demand my phone number (and to use to call them to give them that caller ID instead of my cell). So basically, it's for outgoing calls and for paperwork when I don't actually want the business to call me. If it didn't serve that purpose, I would have disconnected it years ago. I don't even check the voicemail on that one. Lost the password ages ago, among other things.

But somehow, someone in India got my cell phone number recently, even though the only people that have it other than family would be various government agencies (IRS, VA, and at least one other that's none of your business but not classified or anything). They're calling me 10 times a day and even leaving voicemails when I decline the calls, but it's just a ridiculous scam. At this point, it's not even telemarketing or telescamming. It's telephone harassment. They called me at 3:30 AM a few days ago.

And yes, all that's been reported to the FCC, but it's not like they actually do anything.
 
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I love the phishing attempts from my CEO. I have never received an unsolicited email from my CEO.
 
I have mentioned on here before that I have a few moronic namesakes in the US who give out my gmail address instead of theirs. Fair enough, it happens. What is interesting recently is that a fair number of US companies geoblock their customer account pages, presumably as some kind of a security measure. To unsubscribe I need to connect my VPN client to somewhere in the US, otherwise it’s blank page time.
 
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