How much spam do you get each day?

@Humbug25 (12540)
September 11, 2008 1:34pm CST
At the moment I am getting easily well over 100 spam and it is driving me nuts because I have no clue as to where they are coming from. I used to get a lot a while ago, like 50 odd, then it went right down to 2 or 3 a day. The other day I logged on to find 58 sitting there, deleted them and in that time 5 more appeared! Throughout the time I was logged in I must have deleted another 50 or so. I don't even bother to read them, just flag them all and click on delete! How about you? Do you have the same problem? How many do you get per day?
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@joshua85 (71)
11 Sep 08
I have a hotmail account where I refuse to delete the junk mail. I now have over 5000 unread msgs, all junk. Too lazy to delete. On my main account though I go through and delet junk mail and unsubscribe from news letters that i signed up to by mistake. Recently im gettin loads of phising emails or scam emails saying i've won money. whoopie...money now where did i leave my bank details for these guys lol
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11 Sep 08
If you haven't already, have a read through some of the stuff on http://www.scamorama.com/ it has some quite amusing stories of people who've scammed the scammers :)
@Humbug25 (12540)
12 Sep 08
Hi there joshua85 I am glad to hear that you don't fall for these scams but there are alot of people out there that do! Thank you for your response
@Humbug25 (12540)
12 Sep 08
Thanks for that slanted, I might just do that when I have a minute!!
@suruchi86 (1873)
• India
14 Feb 09
I'm so sorry for coming in so late. I also get lot of spam daily. Earlier, I used to get more than 100 such mails per day. But of late I've updated my spam filters and unsubscribed from lot of sites to reduce this number.
@suruchi86 (1873)
• India
16 Feb 09
May be, due to better monitoring and filtering by various authorities.
@Humbug25 (12540)
16 Feb 09
Hello suruchi86 Better late than never eh? As of late mine seems to have reduced somewhat too but not because I have filtered them, I don't know what the reason is actually! Thanks for your response
@onesiobhan (1327)
• Canada
14 Sep 08
I easily get hundreds. I've had my own domain for years, so they come to every possible address - I also get tons of bounce messages from spammers using my email address in their "reply to" field. I think I'm actually going to pay for a spam service. It's gotten to the point that I'm losing real emails.
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@Humbug25 (12540)
14 Sep 08
Hi there onesiobhan Wow that really is a pain especially as you are losing legit emails in the mids of it all. Why don't you change your addy instead of paying out for a spam service? Thank you for your response
@Amagnimo (635)
• India
12 Sep 08
Well, when I get on daily the max amount would be 20. I actually get nearly 10 a day...and thats fine. Plus, my mail filter is working too good. I mean, I don't even have to take a loot at the mails. I would hardly check the SPAM folder unless, I am waiting for an important mail! I don't remember a time when I would have recd. a mail that's not supposed to be in my INBOX...in other words, I haven't received a mail in which is a SPAM in my INBOX. ANyways, Happy Mylotting!
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@Amagnimo (635)
• India
13 Sep 08
Well, was that a message to indicate something or what? For the first time I recd. spam message in my INBOX! Arrgghhh... It was a phishin mail... Thank God, it wasn't my main ID but!
@Humbug25 (12540)
12 Sep 08
Hello Amangnimo Well they do have a habit of slipping through sometime un-noticed!! Thank you for your response
@gtdonna (1738)
12 Sep 08
I lost count in my yahoo mail, but Gmail my goodness, I have no clue where those spam comes from and some have a kind of asian writing....I am more careful with deleting my yahoo spam because legit emails sometimes end up there, but Gmail does a good job with filtering legit emails from spam, so I don't have to worry about checking to see if I am deleting a legit email there
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@Humbug25 (12540)
13 Sep 08
Hello gtdonna A lot of people have said how good gmail is! Thank you for your response
@bombshell (11256)
• Germany
12 Sep 08
hi there,so far,today i got only 16 spam and sometimes more than that since i marked" spam" so try to mark it as " spam" it helps.
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@bombshell (11256)
• Germany
12 Sep 08
welcome
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@Humbug25 (12540)
12 Sep 08
Hi ya bombshell Well fingers crossed you won't get any more eh? Thank you for your response
@switlyf (649)
• Philippines
12 Sep 08
I get a lot of spam everyday,i guess its because of too many sites that i've joined to. Hahah well sometimes im reading them ( if the subject looks interesting ) but most of the times i will just delete them all. Happy mylotting!
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@Humbug25 (12540)
12 Sep 08
Hi ya switlyf You wanna be careful they might reel you in one day!! Thanks for responding
@mflower2053 (3223)
• United States
12 Sep 08
I'm sure its around 100. I don't have where they show how many in the program that I use now. I use to use outlook express and it would tell you but I got tired of setting it up for everytime we restored our computer. I delete more then I read.
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@Humbug25 (12540)
12 Sep 08
Hi there mflower2053 Hahaha I sure do get more spam than I do 'proper' mail!! Thank you for your response
• India
12 Sep 08
May be you would have long time before or otherwise could have signed up many surveys or did some gpt sites.. which inadvertently sells our mail ids to the third parties..and this is the root cause of the spam mails.. Getting 100 spams or so,.. surely it is quite annoying.. and i would think of switching to another mail id.. Take care friend and by the way how are your Kids? God bless them with a long life.
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@Humbug25 (12540)
12 Sep 08
Hi ya saivenkaat802003 It is a pain to change email accounts though isn't it and you shouldn't have to because of these darn people trying to sell you rubbish and scam you! Anyway how have you been? My kids are doing great thanks, all back at school and are now tired out! Take care and thank you for your response friend
@lexus54 (3572)
• Singapore
12 Sep 08
I normally get 20 to 30 spam messages a day, but that is just from one email account. If I add all my accounts up, that can number more than 100 a day. Strictly, I can't call all of them spam, because I give my email particulars to many internet opportunities and affiliate markets (in return for freebies sometimes) and as a result I end up getting lots of sales letters from them. I must be very rich, because everybody seems to want me to contribute money to them to buy their products. What I have noticed these past months is the big increase in scam emails about unclaimed inheritances, bank drafts waiting to be collected, remittances due to me, lotteries I've struck, email prizes I've won and verifications of accounts I don't own. I only used to get them occasionally, but these days, they come in daily and from different addressees. The worst thing is I can't stop them. Even though I report them as scam emails, they keep coming in but under different addressees. I think the only way I can cut them off is terminate the current email accounts and start new ones, but that will be troublesome for me.
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@Humbug25 (12540)
12 Sep 08
Hi ya lexus54 Well I use a yahoo account and a hotmail one. One I use for personal emails from family and friends and hardly get any spam from that maybe one every 2 weeks or so but the yahoo account is the one I have used for myLot, survey sites (which I used to use and think that, that is where all the spam has come from) and freecycle. Thank you for your response
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@Wyldrose (1216)
• United States
12 Sep 08
I get about the same or more. I have no idea where this stuff comes from. I never open it, though cause ya never know what's in there. A freind of mine opened one of hers that said someone had an e-card waiting for her and it turned out to be a virus. So I never open mine, I just delete them.
@Humbug25 (12540)
12 Sep 08
Hi ya Wyldrose Y'see I don't get why people are so nasty that they send virus's to people too have they got nothing better to do? Clearly not! Thank you for your response
@GemmaR (8517)
12 Sep 08
I get about 20 spam mails every day. My email account will send most of them to my junk email filter, but a lot of them still escape undetected, and its those ones which really annoy me majorly! I think spam companies need to be DELETED!! ASAP.
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@Humbug25 (12540)
12 Sep 08
Hi ya GemmaR I wonder how many hours a year we spend deleting and avoiding spam by opening new accounts!? Thank you for your response
@HeZP_CHN (168)
• China
12 Sep 08
Well~much less than yours~ about 20 ~ most is sms~It's boring, isn't it~
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@Humbug25 (12540)
12 Sep 08
Hello SeZP_CHN Yes that is much less than mine and it is really annoying Thank you for your response
12 Sep 08
:) i get about 30 a day on each mail account. i got 3. i just flag them and delete. i'm sure next there'll be a hundred more...that's life...spammers
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@Humbug25 (12540)
12 Sep 08
Hello kataiba and welcome to myLot I am sure at some point it will go up from 30 but I also think it will go down too but then back up again, this is what seems to happen with me. Today I think I have got somewhere around 70 spam which isn't as much as of late! Thank you for your response and happy mylotting
12 Sep 08
About 400 to 600 a day but mostly on a very old email address that I hardly use so I just glance thought them to see if there is any real messages that have sneaked in and get rid of the lot
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@Humbug25 (12540)
12 Sep 08
Hi ya maidangela7349 Wow 400 - 600 a day is alot, I'm glad I don't get that many! Thank you for your response
@Eileen01 (195)
• China
12 Sep 08
I also receive many spams. I remembered I register a employ site with my mail and then I receive spams about training everyday.I am boring it.So as you did,i often delete them directly.
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@Humbug25 (12540)
12 Sep 08
Hello Eileen01 That sort of email you could probably unsubscribe to quite easily but the one's I get come from all sorts of people from all over the place!!!!! Thank you for responding
@sweetie1026 (1718)
• Philippines
12 Sep 08
I do receive spams too about between 20-30 or more on some occasions. Yes, they are driving me nuts I just wonder why do they keeping sending these spams to people? It is so irritating that when you open up your mail thinking that they are from friends you'll find that they are all spams. I hope that there is some way that we can put an end to these.
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@Humbug25 (12540)
12 Sep 08
Hi ya sweetie1026 Well I suppose 20-30 isn't too bad but bad enough eh? thank you for your response
@gracie04 (4549)
• Philippines
12 Sep 08
about 2 to 4 spam emails a day... My previous email account (yahoo) receives 50 spam emails a day...I get exasperated whenever i see annoying emails from persons whom i don't know... Argggghhh! I am fed up with those things that's why i tranferred to a better email account...
@Humbug25 (12540)
12 Sep 08
Hi ya gracie04 I think that is what you have to do periodically, change your addy but it is a pain and why should you? Thanks for your response
@chinniR (661)
• India
12 Sep 08
hi, i get around 5 spams a day. i check my mails daily and i can find that some of the mails which i have been waiting for usually comes in the spam folder. then i move it to the inbox. this is one reason why i check up my mails daily. i am afraid that some of the important mails may get deleted in the spam folder before i could have a look at it.
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@Humbug25 (12540)
12 Sep 08
Hi ya chinniR When I get 50 odd in one go I just delete them with one foul swoop but if there are 2 or 3 then I scan over them just to make sure that they aren't regualr mails. Thanks for responding
@a_ali14 (49)
• Pakistan
12 Sep 08
Yeah I am also having same problem every day I open my mail box there are atleast 40 new mails I am tired of them. I think spam mails are recieved more common in yahoo.
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