I got a spam this morning that has 18 addressees, some of which I recognize from this forum and several of the rest are construction businesses. I expect someone who's traded emails with me got hacked.
I've noticed an increase in spam for the past couple of days also, all to my real email (spam usually comes in as sales@ or support@).
> I got a spam this morning that has 18 addressees, some of which I recognize from this forum and several of the rest are construction businesses. I expect someone who's traded emails with me got hacked.
Yes, I too got a few like that.
my spam blocker usually gets these but a new flavor is getting in.
I can deal with quite a bit of spam. The filter on my Thunderbird email program is pretty good at sorting them, and then I scan through the list later to be sure I'm not deleting anything I wanted to get.
But the ISP is also filtering, and they have blocked several emails in the last couple weeks that I know people sent me, and there's nothing I can do about that.
I think the only cure will be to put a cost on sending an email. About 0.1 cent per addressee would be negligible for most users, but would make those million-address lists too expensive for the spammers.
I agree and would gladly support the per email cost if it fixed this junk.