Did anyone notice spam decreasing lately ?

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Grimner

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Nov 12, 1999
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Thought it was just me, but last week was a definit decrease in spam to my POP3.

And this week they're back...
 

Sunner

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Oct 9, 1999
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Mine has pretty much doubled in the last couple of months.

On one of my accounts, I get ~30 junkmails per day, on the other one I'd guesstimate I avarge between 150-300 per day.
No, Im not kidding by the way.

If you're looking for trends, viagra seems to be on the rise lately though(pun intended).
 

Looney

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Originally posted by: Sunner
Mine has pretty much doubled in the last couple of months.

On one of my accounts, I get ~30 junkmails per day, on the other one I'd guesstimate I avarge between 150-300 per day.
No, Im not kidding by the way.

If you're looking for trends, viagra seems to be on the rise lately though(pun intended).

I get much more penis enlargement than viagara.
 

Sunner

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Yeah penis enlargement is definately up as of late too.
I get fewer Nigeria 419's though, kinda sad, those were often rather funny, and the asian teens are down too.
 

vegetation

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Still the same, but seems like spammers are losing touch at what they're really trying to do. I get nothing but gibberish messages, obviously intended to fool antispam software, but if I can't read it then what's the point?
 

Spacehead

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Jun 2, 2002
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Spam on my web based account has decreased lately. I think they're taking better care now. But my POP3 account has increased so much i decided to try out a spam filter. I asked my ISP if they had any plans on doing anything about it & they told me to just get a filter myself.
 

Kappo

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I get tons in my yahoo account...its what I use it for :D

I just got office 2003 and on the account my exgirlfriend knows, I get about 50-60 a day (although I only check it to make sure she is still signing me up for "offers" though email!). My main account get about 1 every month, if that. Hotmail has done an excellect job filtering spam lately. I use them to sign up for games and if I have to have a passport account to play something...as much as I sign up for stuff I only get one or two a week, usually from ubid.com whom I have unsubscribed about a billion times from.
 

dragonic

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May 2, 2003
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well, spamming to my hotmail account has been decreasing but now they are bombing my main e-mail which didnt get spam before this year :(
 

onelin

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email to my 5 year old POP account is getting absurd lately. I may have to dump it and do the 3 teir email thing. I can always whitelist forward to my new email I guess...sad to see the spammers winning. Even my bayesian filtering hasn't been able to keep up with the increase in spam (20-30 a day, a few slipping past filters a week)
 

rh71

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Aug 28, 2001
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Now that you mention it, I do notice Mailwasher pulling a lot less emails for me each day. It pulls from 6 accounts (not all mine, but 2 Hotmails included) and I used to get 150+ emails after 1 night. Now it's more like 50, if that.