Like everyone, I get tons of it.
Years ago, I set up a domain for a website (which, I haven’t updated in ages) , but I do use the e-mail.
At the time, keeping the ‘catch-all’ seemed like a good idea — I can make up whatever address I want and it’ll come to my default address.
I can tell some of the time where spam is coming from, so that’s good in a way. I had a few mailing lists get hacked, a mail survey sold me out, my husband used another for fantasy sports once.
There’s also a few random ones — like a1aaa1azzzz1zaaaaa@[mydomain] and johnsmithsvt@[mydomain] — that started generating enough traffic to become irritating.
I currently filter the ones I can pinpoint to a dummy gmail account. I will eventually shut them down completely, but I need to determine all of the valid ones first!
Gmail catches most of the junk as spam, which gets deleted every 30 days. As of today, I have over 3600 messages in my spam folder! 120 a day, and that doesn’t count the spam I get at work and to my addresses that I can’t filter out.
I don’t know why I’ve been finding some spam e-mail amusing lately. Sometimes the subject lines are so bizarre they make me laugh.
“BE like a normal MAN”
“citrus fruit demerit”
“to intrude where all that for in the Galactic Empire was a”
“Its hunfredo. Reply plz.”
Today I accidentally opened a message that didn’t get filtered out. Beneath the Hoodia ad was the following:
“For example, a raspy grand piano indicates that the tornado beyond the burglar secretly admires the tomato near a pig pen.
A chess board self-flagellates, because the cashier pours freezing cold water on a bartender. “
I couldn’t have said it better myself!