OT: Why am I getting 100 times more spam than others?

[Blake Gonterman]

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I'm seeing new spam with unsubscribe links that take you to a malware site... be sure you watch the links and make sure they look legit or you may end up with a lot of other spam...

Joe <lists at joefleming.net> wrote:

>I can't help you Gmail specifically (their filter works 99.9% of the
>time for me), but what I can suggest is unsubscribing from any lists you
>get. That is, any email you get with an unsubscribe link on the bottom,
>make sure you click it and ask to be removed from all mailing.
>
>Someone told me to try this a while back and I always thought it was a
>waste of time. I decided to do it with my dedicated SPAM account (the
>email I use to sign up for random things, for forums, to buy stuff
>online or do anything that I think might result in unwanted emails) and
>I've been pretty amazed with the results. I still get a handful of
>*real* SPAM (stuff you can't unsubscribe from) on a weekly basis, but
>the number of bunk messages I get in there is WAY down.
>
>Might be worth your time. Of course, if all your SPAM is real SPAM and
>lacks a way to be removed, then this advice won't help you at all.
>
>-Joe
>
>Josef Lowder wrote:
>> In the past, I have pleaded for help with this issue, and some have
>> responded with frustration that I brought this up again ... so I
>> apologize in advance for bringing this up again now.  But the problem
>> has worstened to an enormously frustrating extent.
>> 
>> More than 2,000 spam email messages now come into my gmail account
>> every day.  It is perplexing and infuriating to me that google/gmail
>> will not allow creating filters to *delete* (not just move to trash)
>> all this garbage that is clearly identifiable and definable.
>> 
>> Recently, gmail began to mark about half to 2/3rds of this garbage
>> with the title *****SPAM***** in the subject line.  Why would they
>> bother doing that instead of just totally blocking or automatically
>> deleting forever all this garbage rather than just labeling it as
>> SPAM?   Or at least give us the option to choose to have all such mail
>> deleted rather than put into a spam folder.
>> 
>> I (and many others) have written to Google and to Gmail forums about
>> this numerous times, but of course no one at Google ever responds.
>> 
>> What prompts this message today is that I have recently talked with
>> other email users  who are even larger volume users of email than I
>> and they have expressed amazement at the volume of spam that I am
>> receiving.  Because, they have reported to me that they are *not*
>> receiving even 1/100th of the volume of spam that I receive.
>> 
>> So, can anyone recommend any remedy or alternate, perhaps even a paid
>> web mail service, by which I might be able to gain some control over
>> this nightmare?
>> 
>> I would certainly be willing to pay for a solution.
>> 
>> Help!
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