So, how much spam do you get?

[hbdragon88]

How much spam do you get per day?
How much gets caught?
Do you know where you got your spam?

I currently have 432 messages in my "Bulk" folder. It's like a game - I'm shooting for 666 messages, although I'm pretty sure Yahoo will delete all the messages before it gets that high. I only get about 1-2 spam messages in my inbox, and I applud Yahoo for doing such a great job of filtering it all out.

I'm pretty sure I got most of my spam from my two old websites - for about three years, my email address was visible to any and all spam bots that crawled the page. It wasn't until this year did I encode them using Email Address Encoder. Or from registering so many services with that email address.

Another note - I found a very helpful piece of spam. It's a link to a product that sprays on a highly reflective coat on your license plates. It's invisible to the naked eye, but if a camera (like a red-light camera) tries to take a picture, it shines off, so you don't get a ticket. While license plate covers are illegal, these license coats aren't.

 

[MarineCorps]

I get about 10 a day in hotmail. Down from 30. And yes I know where they are from but I ain't saying where.

 

[stormbind]

Negligeable; less than 1/week. Gotta be careful about where you leave it, and don't post it on a website because spambots read pages looking for email addresses.

 

[Souron]

About 30 emails per month

Yahoo is more prone to put non-spam in the bulk folder, then vice versa.

 

[LLXerxes]

alot...
we'llleaveit at that

 

[Mikoyan]

Hotmail: maybe 5 messages a day.
Yahoo: Too much to count.
Gmail: None so far
AOL: Haven't checked it in years...

 

[Thrawn]

Negligeable; less than 1/week.

Same here. Get's delivered straight to my junk email folder too. Occassionally a legit email goes there too, so I check it about once a week just in case.

 

[Silverflame]

Less than 1/month.

 

[Dell19]

None on either on hotmail or gmail...

 

[IglooDame]

How much spam do I get? Ummm all of it.

One of my jobs is to administer a mail server that currently queues suspected-spam for my review rather than for the intended recipient's review. I'm working on fixing this.

 

[Padma]

I get roughly 30-50 per day. (My wife averages about 100 per day! )

On *my* system (Linux), I just run SpamAssassin as a daemon, and it puts all but about 15 into my junk folder automatically. The other 15 don't *quite* trip the "spam" flag, but I'm teaching it.

 

[The Person]

A few per month, it varies.

 

[Fetus4188]

almost never, all that I've ever got found its way to my junk folder anyway.

 

[Stevenpfo]

None. I leave fake e-mail addys if i can help it and if i'm forced to use a real e-mail account i make my name 'spam' so when i get an e-mail that says "spam, you've got to check this out!!" it goes straight to the trash. But i haven't had a spam message on this new e-mail account yet (6 months old).

 

[Moss]

I get no spam...at all. It's kinda nice actually.

 

[Gingerbread Man]

I get a few spam messages a day, but they all have similar subject lines, so I'm setting Evolution Email to filter them out until I can get spamAssassin working. Viva las Linux!

This actually reminds me of a game that I want to try with the new 250MB hotmail accounts - we all get a hotmail account, and the first to reach it's limit with spam wins. If anybody is interested, tell me.

 

[citizen001]

My hotmail 'spambox' fills in less than a week. so yeh...

 

[Gogf]

None whatsoever, except for announcements from forum I'm a member at, and don't go to, and am too lazy to block.

Of course, I am careful to not let robots gleam my email from webpages. For example, I write (a) instead of @ (or use an image).

 

[MarineCorps]

I just got six of these in one of my inboxes.

Dear Friend


Please, do not be offended if this message comes to
you as I ought to have sought your consent and
approval before e-mailing this proposal I acted as I
did due to the importance and urgency of this
business. Which ever way you may look at it, let it
please you to respond quickly either negatively or
positively.

I am Barrister Phillip Nduka , personal attorney to a
national of supposedly your country who used to work
with Shell Development Company in Lagos Nigeria a
contract Staff and who was also instrumental to the
construction of the International Cement Company,
Lagos. Hereinafter shall be referred to as my client
for over ten years. On the 21st of October, 1997, my
client, his wife and their only daughter, were
involved in a car accident along Nouvissi express
Road on holidays to Karra while driving their
personal car.

Unfortunately, all occupants of the vehicle lost
their lives. As his lawyer,
I was contacted and all necessary burial
arrangements were made and the remains of the family
buried in the public cemetery. Since then I have
made several enquiry?s to the your embassy here and
others to locate any of my clients either blood
families or the extended relations. My concerted
search proved abortive. After these several
unsuccessful attempts and as the last resort, I
decided to track his last name over the Internet, to
see if I will be lucky to locate any member of his
family, hence I contacted you. Perhaps, you may not
be related to him but it behooves on us to seize
this golden opportunity to salvage his savings since
I could not locate any relation of his either dead
or alive.

I have in my records his documents where he left
behind the sum of Ten million United States of
American dollars (US$10 million) in a Security
company ,I have contacted you to assist me in
repatriating this fund left behind by my client
before it gets confiscated or declared unserviceable
by the Company where this huge amount was deposited.
The Company has issued me a notice to provide the
next of kin or have his Consignment confiscated
within the next twenty one official working days as
the policy of the Company is to overrun over Seven
years of unserviceable .They have a veritable excuse
as they knew that my client was dead. Since I have
been unsuccessful in locating the relations all this
while, I seek your consent to present you as the
next of kin to the deceased since you have the same
last (Names) names. This is to enable us salvage the
proceeds of his account and get it paid to you
instead. I have this obsession that if the directors
of the Company confiscated the money and enrich
their pockets, it might not be put into proper and
useful ventures to benefit the poor masses of this
world.


I wish to use part of my share to donate to
charitable organizations and churches. Therefore,
should this proposal appeal to you and on receipt of
your positive response, we shall then discuss the
sharing ratio and modalities for transferee. I have
all necessary information and legal documents needed
to back you up for the claim. All I needed is a
willing foreigner who will be honest, trustworthy
and transparent both in business and spirit with his
or her unalloyed co-operation to enable us see this
transaction through.

I guarantee that this will be executed under
legitimate arrangements that will protect you from
any breach of the law. Please get in touch with me
by e- mail . You can request my phone number for
further discussion on this..
Thanks and have my best regards.

 

[Volum]

OMG you have to accept, what could possible go wrong