Are you getting a lot less spam in your e-mail recently?

[Guest]

I used to have to delete nearly 100 items of spam in my spam folder daily, but lately I've noted fewer than 10 items per day. Is it just me, or has there been some regulation which cut out the spam?

[+ Italiano]

I noticed that too, it's few days already...

[pubic_assistance]

I have a spam-catcher installed with my E-mail years now

I haven't noticed a difference

[+ Pensant]

I’ve noticed the same thing, but I also have a filter. A lot of online retail shops offer 15% off for your first order, so I use a sock-puppet account for those, so I never see their subsequent ads.

[+ Charlie]

I have noticed a major change in my spam folder in the past week; I usually have to empty it every day, but for the past couple of days there has been nothing in it.

[+ newatthis]

3 hours ago, Charlie said:

I have noticed a major change in my spam folder in the past week; I usually have to empty it every day, but for the past couple of days there has been nothing in it.

Ditto, at least for my yahoo account.

[Lookin]

I rarely have more than one item a day in my 'Junk' folder and that hasn't changed.  It's a surprise to hear that some folks get a hundred, or even ten, a day.  😳

Only thing I can think of is that I rarely give out my email address except to friends and the few organizations and businesses I deal with on a regular basis.  I've had an email account for about thirty years, and use only one email address.  But I tell most folks who ask that I don't have one.  I think they look at me like an old Luddite and roll their eyes.  🙄

Fine with me, as I enjoy the peace and quiet.  😌

[+ Charlie]

2 hours ago, newatthis said:

Ditto, at least for my yahoo account.

There has never been much spam in my very active yahoo account, but up till this week my AOL email spam folder has been full of spam (10-20 items) every day, yet yesterday and today the folder was empty. Something certainly has changed.

[BuffaloKyle]

I rarely get any junk email. If I get an email from a company and I never longer want to they almost always have an "unsubscribe" link at the bottom.

Edited May 5, 2023 by BuffaloKyle

[+ Charlie]

Weird: I just opened my AOL spam folder again, and the only thing in it was the newsletter I get every day from my HOA, which has NEVER been sent to my spam folder before! Something odd is going on.

[Guest]

 

[caramelsub]

I’ve been getting more spam than ever, I try to unsubscribe and mark as spam, but they just keep coming.

[+ Charlie]

I only click the "Unsubscribe" when I am sure that the email is really from the company that it claims to be from, which it often isn't.

[nate_sf]

I'm thinking it could be a change in the spam filters, and they are doing a better job of catching spam. But then wouldn't it just result in more messages going into the spam folder rather than the usual inbox? Not sure.

The office I work in just installed Office365 across the network, and a whole bunch of things changed including spam messages going away. Every day or two I get an email summarizing messages that have been quarantined, and they're the usual suspects. The only difference is I don't see these spam messages anywhere, neither in my inbox or the junk folder. The only reason I know they exist is because of the quarantine message, otherwise I'd have no idea they were sent at all.

[marylander1940]

On 5/5/2023 at 5:54 AM, pubic_assistance said:

I have a spam-catcher installed with my E-mail years now

I haven't noticed a difference

Does it work?

Do you only get emails from your contacts? 

[pubic_assistance]

1 hour ago, marylander1940 said:

Does it work?

Do you only get emails from your contacts? 

Yes. It works very well.  I get hundreds of spam-mails every week that are collected in the spam folder.

Very rarely does anything get through. But of course nothing is perfect. I'd say maybe one or two every few days out of the 100 legitimate weekly e-mails

On my business account.

1 or two a week on my personal account.

[+ The Big Guy]

I haven’t noticed much change vs. the past but I always make sure I flag any new spam using the spam filter that comes through my email  and that seems to keep things under control.  

[+ Charlie]

No spam in either of my spam folders all weekend!

[Guest]

10 hours ago, The Big Guy said:

I haven’t noticed much change vs. the past but I always make sure I flag any new spam using the spam filter that comes through my email  and that seems to keep things under control.  

That's a little worrisome for me. My concern is that my ISP isn't bothering to flag my spam as spam, but just deleting it without my OK. It's rare, but sometimes I do find something important in my spam filter which should not have been labeled as spam (probably about 0.5% of my spam). 

[pubic_assistance]

My spam folder is still as full as it normally would be after a week. Might be a matter of what email services you are all using. Perhaps those of you who are noticing a difference are all using the same service. That could be worrisome indeed, if your provider is determining by itself what is and isn't spam without letting you have the final say.

Edited May 9, 2023 by pubic_assistance
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[+ The Big Guy]

Good points from @Unicorn and @pubic_assistance.  To be honest, I don’t monitor what is actually going directly to the spam folder but will start doing so.  Thanks. 

[+ Charlie]

And today I open my AOL spam folder after three days and find eleven items of the same old kinds of spam that I used to get (notices that I have won a Dyson vacuum cleaner, how to get a bigger penis, etc.).

[dbar123]

Most of my spam is political .

I do miss getting the Trump Stop the Steal requests for money. They were more entertaining than most. Every one came with a 10 fold match so I couldn’t see why they needed my 10%. 
 

Almost sorry I didn’t get my charter sucker gold Trump card

[+ Charlie]

My spam folder is starting to fill up again with the usual stuff ("Herpes help..., " "Congratulations! You have won..." etc.)

[+ Charlie]

Aaagh!!! 24 pieces of mail in my spam folder today! The spammers must have been on strike last week.