Junk email - back on the rise?

[lars]

Has anybody else noticed the amount of junk email they receive has started to go back to old 2001 levels? For a long time, my main email was doing a great job of blocking all that out. Now it seems somebody has figured out an algorithm to consistently get past all that, and the stuff getting through is blatantly garbage. Some of it doesn't even make sense. At least in the past junk email made an attempt at complete sentences, usually offering to enlarge things.
Now it's like, "You click like the this He wins!!! xc5io99.retaL?oain.orgiV7icks"
[Cheddar]
[Old]
[Ducks]
[Sandwich]
[Money]////

[BrianS]

I use yahoo as my main email and it's still doing a great job for some reason, I will knock on wood right now. It even spams stuff I don't want it to, lol. But I hear you. I must get, on average, 10 to 15 junk emails a day but they normally pass to my junk folder. And yes the enlarge emails have me curious.   Perhaps if I ordered some I could become a sexual tyrannosaurs (e.g. Jessie Ventura on Predator). But at my age I don't think there's any help. Lol.

What gets me is the level of junk I get in my mail box.  AMEXCO, Citi, MC, etc... etc... I get 3 or 4 of each sometimes every 2 weeks. Plus the other bunch of junk I get.  And to get off their mailing list is just a lost cause. I wish I had the postage they spend a year just on the people who immediately shred/throw it away.

[alanp]

I sometimes imagine those hordes of lonely Russian women, who want nothing more than some geeky lovin', along with the highly qualified and trained medical professionals who have "pilules" to assist with this.

Maybe it's because I've never had any ego whatsoever in these matters, but it all seems quite sad, and designed to appeal to the kind of person who desperately wants to prove how "macho" he is, in the Duke Nukem style.

[m-Kresol]

junk mail has definitely increased over the last year. for some reasons there's a bunch of people who think I'm god's choice to inheret their immense stash of money. Weird enough, I get those kind of emails on my work acount only. scientific reasearchers are rarely known to be strongly religious. No idea how they get the idea that a university would be a good target for fishing mails of that kind.

[blearyeyes]

Definately getting a ton more junk mail.
When I tried to look into it the company address is offshore on an island.
Spamming the world...

[Mojo Fandangle]

So I'm not the only person to win a big screen TV and 2 proposals from beautiful Russian women in the last few days?? Dang!!

[nzCdog]

This is an interesting watch about where the spammers (and worse) are hide from the authorities...
http://us.norton.com/mostdangeroustown2

[lars]

This is an interesting watch about where the spammers (and worse) are hide from the authorities...
http://us.norton.com/mostdangeroustown2

People must watch this. They also need to boycott Yahoo.com since the vast majority of junk and spam comes from "@yahoo.com" email addresses. Since they are a "legit" domain, most email services won't allow you to block the entire domain from receiving mail from them. The spammers use this to their advantage.