hotmail spam...

[Wewt]

Any hotmail users out there noticing the spam is getting smarter?

What I mean by this, is that the spam no longer has jumbled subject lines and jumbled sender names. So, I could get a mail from 'John Smith' for example, with a very normal subject line, I'd check it to see if it might be something I should read. Instead, I find crap in there. I know about the filters and whatnot, but I still check my junk mail folder :l

Anybody else getting annoyed by this?

[LamerPanda]

I don't get any, which is strange since I don't have any filters at all.

I think it's because I don't use hotmail to register for anything...

...or maybe even spam shuns me. ;_;

Seriously, last address I did get spam at, the spam actually did seem like a normal letter until I opened it. Eventually I remembered that no one mailed me and just started deleting everything I got. Worked well enough for me.

[Mystil]

Yes. They hav gotten smarter. They sometimes pose as a RE: email from YOUR OWN hotmail address. The spam with my account got so bad, that I cancelled it and went to yahoo.

[Suppa_Buddha]

I noticed my spam has been turning 1337 with the subject, I get about 10 a day. My filters are useless now.

[-Geshtar-]

hmm..turn your junk mail filter to exclusive...and have no junk mail inbox, hopefully all crap mails will never reach your address.

[Guile]

Those sneaky bastards!
My business email does, my personal does'nt get spam..yet

[Riu_000]

I've had my hotmail account for over two years..Not a single peice of crap mail yet.

And my filter is only on normal or whatever.

[SorceressofTime]

>_> i get porn and junk mail spammed at me all the time. i leave it for a day, i get over 70 unread emails from the fuckers. they really know how to piss me off so, i just simply use my junk mail filter. XD eat that you little shits! *shakes fist*

[Wewt]

Some of you misunderstood, or just didn't read what I wrote properly. I still check my junk mail folder, because I'm just curious if I do get something that I might need to look at. I get mails from all kinds of different people from different addresses - My "Safe List" on hotmail is fucking huge. I do have my junk mail filter to toss everything that isn't supposed to come my way into the junk folder.

Changing addresses never really worked for me, as I ended with just another account to check every so often. I now have 8 email accounts to check. Bleh.

[Orange_Coconut]

I think there's someone with the same E-mail out there that's gotten sick of E-mailing me because I never trust anything that I didn't sign up for or from names I have never seen before. In fact, the E-mail from this guy has gone from reasonable topics to a jumble of words. Heh, it's as if the person's getting sick of E-mailing meghufyiauygfog...

[Reenee]

Spam so smart, even my own e-mail provider spams me...that's both Yahoo! and Hotmail. Hotmail just bothers me twice a month. My dud Yahoo! account gets 600 Bulk (a.k.a. Junk) Mail a week, and it only takes up 25% of my space.

Spam: not just smarter, slimmer too.

[Ness]

This is exactly why I created a dummy e-mail address.

[Logical2u]

All you people have to do is set Hotmail to exclusive. 70 junkmail folder topics a week but no clogging. And I can get unlimited mail if you arent on my safelist.

[Wewt]

On 2003-11-30 10:28, Logical2u wrote:
All you people have to do is set Hotmail to exclusive.
Incredible...

[starhealer]

The only spam I get in my regular hotmail account is from that stupid OOFUN or whatever. I don't even know why. I have another hotmail address, though and that's spammed to hell and back. It's like...sixty new messages a day.

My sister checks her spam folder, though. She's never sure if hotmail sent a real, legitimate letter into her spam folder or not, so she checks it out, then deletes it all. The amount of spam she gets is...quite a bit.

My old Yahoo! account was nothing but a spam accumulator. Stupid Yahoo!...