spam in gmail

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<p>During the last year I have been using gmail, I rarely ever get spam; may one email a month if that. Over the last two week I have started getting two a day on both my email addresses. The emails are going into my spam folder so that is good, I just was curious why all of a sudden I started getting spam. These are the typical drug emails, with a few saying itunes. I have one email address for personal email and the other is for anyone else that needs an email address. I expect to get spam in the second email address as that address is out there everywhere, but the first address I am surprised about.</p>

<p>Neither of my kids have had increased spam in their gmail; I was just wondering if other have noticed more spam lately.</p>

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<p>Someone got your email address. When a spammer gets your email address somehow, you get spam. Thankfully Google screens it out for you. I don’t even bother to look at my spam filter anymore, since I get dozens of spams a day.</p>

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<p>Like CF, I never notice the spam folder any more so I went to look after you mentioned it. Actually, there’s less there than usual.</p>

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<p>You could be getting spam because someone else’s contact list has been compromised and your email address was one on that list.</p>

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<p>So I guess I won’t worry about one or two a day. It was just interesting as I was not getting any and now started to. With my old Earthlink account I would get 20-50 a day, not all of which were caught by the spam filter. Gmail has not let any through, so for that I am thankful!</p>

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<p>You know, this is all interesting. D has a gmail account as her primary. She also has an old hotmail account that I never send stuff to anymore, but just this morning, I got a spam email from her hotmail account. I think someone hacked it.</p>

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<p>I’m noticing the same thing with my gmail account lately. In fact, I just navigated to CC from my gmail account where I have just set up filters to hopefully block each of the 10 different senders who just sent me an offer for Viagra. Of course, the spammers are smart enough to use a different email address every time. AAAUUGGH!</p>

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<p>I have a (very old) aol address that I use for everything. I probably get 50 – yes, 50 – spam emails a day, only about 30 of which go into my spam folder.</p>

<p>And I check my spam folder frequently, because about once or twice a week something winds up in there that is a real message.</p>

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<p>Only 50? I get hundreds of spam emails a day. One address–which I’ve had for fifteen years–gets 30-50 spams a day (that get filtered out, but I check the filter); the gmail address gets about two hundred a day. That’s because I have a six-letter gmail address that random address generators come up with regularly. Plus… a lot of people give out my email address as their “junk mail” address. When they do that, I’ve been known to call them and threaten them with a lawsuit for slander.</p>

<p>During December I didn’t delete spam because I searched it for all those shipping codes… by the end of the month I had 5000+ spam messages.</p>

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<p>Hmmmmmmmmmm. I also have a six letter gmail address and I never empty the spam folder. There are less than 400 in there right now.</p>

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<p>dmd77, I’m thinking your e-mail address is something like <a href="mailto:abcdef@gmail.com">abcdef@gmail.com</a>, or <a href="mailto:123456@gmail.com">123456@gmail.com</a>, or <a href="mailto:abc123@gmail.com">abc123@gmail.com</a>. </p>

<p>You said

– How do you know who these people are??</p>

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<p>VeryHappy–it’s not that bad. How do I know who these people are? They sign up for spam using their full names. I google the names. You’d be amazed how easy it is to find someone.</p>

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<p>I never thought of that!</p>