Is anyone else getting dozens of spam messages every day claiming they won some prize? I blame DOGE for leaking my private email address
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I feel like I (and probably a lot people now) don’t have a clue what most of their emails are. I don’t subscribe to anything anymore. I have no reason to routinely check it.
It’s just where receipts and account management messages (verification codes, click here to finish logging in type stuff), along with automated reminders of activities that have happened it need to happen. I haven’t checked email that wasn’t a log in thing for a very long time. And even then it was probably to check a record of some sort.
It used to be used as a primary communication protocol, now it’s just the account you need to have to make an account on what you’ll actually use.
Has anyone used it intentionally for anything more than that in the last 10 years? Personal email I mean, not for work email.
The moment the Cheeto was back in the WH the amount of spam I get has increased exponentially. The scammers know they have free reign.
It’s gotta be this. The FCC or whomever used to stop this is gone. And Google is complicit. These emails are coming from hundreds of gibberish gmail accounts.
Remember when the GOP sued google because its spam filters were too effective?
I’m not, no.
But yes, hold them responsible for their crimes in all cases.
Not the prize email, but my Gmail is stuffed with porn spam. 50-70 a day.
Lucky! You have hot singles in your
areaspam folder, and all I get is blatant blackmail scams telling me they have my (wrong) phone number and that there’s nation-state Spyware on my phone recording videos every time I dare to stroke some sausage.Your not Linda? Do you live in <area>?
A point of pride that I have a 5 character email address with no numbers. A Gmail account I got with an invite back when… Invites.
Spamless. Granted, I have setup shell emails that forward to it etc. it’s well guarded.
I’m going to send emails to every 5 character email address. That’s 26^5 emails.
Good luck. I guarantee your failure. 🙂
It rejects all incoming email that does not come from one of any of my other email addresses.
Game, set, match. 🎾
Well… the level of effort required has now exceeded the weight of the bit.
I’m in that boat. Outlook’s reporting function died too.
It’s my Outlook too. I only use it for personal work and business. Very annoying
Outside of work, I haven’t relied on email in years. I have one account for my bank and stuff, but rarely look at it.
Not sure if your society still revolves around email, but I recommend doing the same thing if you can.
My email has been spammed daily since the 90’s. It’s why I don’t really use email if I can avoid it.
Not lately. My gmails Spam sections mostly have legitimate marketing and news emails that idiots have apparently reported as spam instead of just unsubscribing from.
I’m guilty of marking legit emails as spam recently, a bunch of the emails I’ve been getting I’ve already tried unsubscribing multiple times and they keep coming (I’m looking at you, Threads) so I gave up and reported them as spam
If you try unsubbing and it doesn’t work, then that fits. I just suspect a lot of people don’t even try. I’m just tired of having things I signed up for ant want show up in spam.
Most recently I ordered some merch from Atari and all of their mails went to spam, including responses from customer service, which is annoying because I thought they just never wrote back.
How can you distinguish between “legitimate marketing” and some phishing email that looks like marketing material with a tracked unsubscribe link? Clicking on that unsubscribe link just lets them know email is active and its value has just been increased
I’m referring to things I explicitly signed up for.
