Regular as Clockwork

Is there any other kind?

It must be comforting for you to know that the spam companies give their employees the weekends off. Perhaps when they get raises, they'll send you two of everything. Enthusiasm has a value, you know. Sometimes in the tiny, fine print at the bottoms of those emails, there is an 'unsubscribe' link. And sometimes those work. Sometimes not. I don't know if you ever enter contests, but often in agreeing to the contest rules, you are also agreeing to receive emails from companies that the sponsor feels that you'd be interested in. In otherwords, junk from companies that buy email lists from these sponsors. So even if you successfully unsubscribe, you might be resubscribing at almost the same time. Comforting, isn't it?

I have all sorts of spam. Part of my problem is, though, I forget which sites I've actually visited! But now I use Gmail which is good for not spamming. I've got several other emails and if I need to give an email for anything from which I'm likely to get spam, I give one of my old addresses! I do wonder though when I get certain emails directed at men's issues. I'm certain I've never given my email address to any related sites. I guess they just get them from wherever and you can't stop them if you don't know where they come from. That's why I mostly use my Gmail and then give my old addresses. Of course, the problem then is coming to log on to things and forgetting which email address I've given!

Hello Pike, Yes I get loads of spam and like you it infuriates me too. As for getting comfortable with receiving them I never am and it always makes me wonder how they got my email address. Guess when we complete surveys of any kind, the company always pass on information to other companys hence the spam-it is a mystery to me. Hugs LoLo

I get those, too. I add them to my blacklist so that they are blocked before the mailbox accepts and displays them. The latest barrage contains lots of symbols in the header and so are easy to recognize as unwanted intruders. I get spam from people pretending to be my bank, PayPal and Western Union, too. They all want my money. It's a shame they don't take that creativity and focus it on something honest and constructive--if they did, they might actually make a lot of money.

yes this always happens with me. I have a few emails and I get different one all the time for all my emails. It was really annoying at first and now I'm just so used to it lol. I don't even realize that I see and delete them sometimes cause its a daily ritual for me as of now. I just learned to live with it and I just check every half hour or so and usually only have about 4 to delete.

I so know what your talking about..lol I get them daily as well except weekends..drives me nuts, which doesn't take much to send me there. I have tried going into the messages and unsubscribing from them because third party whatever's are always getting a hold of our addresses to send us their specialty emails.

I have never noticed this before. A lot of my SPAM mail goes to a folder I rarely ever check, unless I don't receive a piece of mail that I'm expecting. I guess I should check it more often, to see if there is some sort of pattern.

Hello pikey. I get the regular spam as well: enlarge your ..., get asian dates, xxx dates bla bla same stuff, badly renamed and stuff.I do wish I could permanently remove them and at least I got most of them to go to spam folders, but still some "new" ones manage to get to my inbox.

there is a site called unsubscribe.com (NOT REF LINK) or something like that where you forward your spam to them and they take you off the places list somehow. its like they know how to really unsubscribe you when you try and it doesnt work. you can forward it to the government which is like spam@gov.com (NOT REF LINK) but double check thats correct. but honestly i doubt it even helps

Well, hello p1key! I must say that I have, unfortunately, received many of the same spam messages over and over again day after day. And I don't know how or where they came from. I do know that here in the US, when you sign up for something your email addy gets passed along even when they say they won't. It is very frustrating. And some of the spam isn't always in the spam folder and it gets mixed into my regular emails. I have two email addys. One for mylot alone and another for my personal junk mail! All I do everyday is delete delete delete!

Yep, everyday I get the same ones over and over. It has become a routine that when I first turn on my computer in the morning, I go straight into my spam folder and delete everything in there and then go through my inbox and delete all the emails in there that I do not want to read. At least with the time differences, I get most of them in the early hours of the morning so I am able to mass delete them mostly as I hardly get any during my day when the Americans and Asians are all asleep. Those two parts of the world are the worst for spam emails from my experience.