Spamtastic - Who do you get the most junk mail from?

[Ice Tea]

Transaction received! A payment has been received into yuor account

Nothing at all suspicious.

 

[Glanza]

Woolroom send daily mailshots out after buying some bedding from them.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

Most appears to come from online sellers I've bought from in the past. No I do not want to buy more/similar product. How many times do I have to click unsubscribe from emails? Even the car dealer I bought a car from spams me with crap (never, ever give out an email address when you buy a car why the **** do they need your email anyway? Answer: they don't. Just give a fake one if they insist)

I have a primary email I use for trusted sources and a secondary throwaway gmail account for signing up to crap and the sheer amount of junk it receives is crazy

My hotmail account has been getting a lot of spam of late. Most of it ends up in my spam folder automatically, but the odd one or two slip through to my inbox. Seems to come in waves.

Hotmails filters are a lot better than gmails I have to say

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

In my main email account (Gmail), Argos were the worst for mailshots. Had to unsubscribe in the end.

In my old email (AOL), I still get mailshots from 991.com for a CD that I bought back in 2008!

 

[Deleted member 77746]

I don't get any junk mail any more. Don't know why.

 

[uvarvu]

Mine used to come in waves. Lots of emails offering different “services” but they all had the same signature so probably came from the same source. Perhaps each wave represented how authorities are playing whack-a-mole with botnets. But yeah mine has died down too, just checked for spam this morning and there’s nothing!

 

[Tee Hee Johnson]

The worst one I had was groupon, 3-5 times a day.

It's long gone now.

 

[Blue160]

Apart from Nigerian scams and all the other crap that goes straight to junk, Ali Express are the worst offenders. Deliveroo and Drop are also pretty bad.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

jpaul

 

[GGizmo]

I got a funny email the other day. It is supposed to be from a Chinese bank. I'll post a selection of the email;

The subject header was;

Subject: ARE YOU DEAD OR STILL ALIVE ???

Then the body;

*Dear Valued Customer:*

*We are writing to know if it's true that you are DEAD? because we*
*received a notification mail from one (MR. GERSHON SHAPIRO) of USA stating*
*that you are DEAD and that you have given him the right to claim your*
*OUTSTANDING FUND US$10.500,000,00 (Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand*
*United States Dollars) only. He stated you died of Corona-virus*
*COVID-19, He has been calling us regarding this issue, but we cannot*
*proceed with him until we confirm this by not hearing from you after 7*
*days.*

*Be advised that we have made all arrangements for you to receive and*
*confirm your funds without any more stress, and without any further*
*delays. All we need to confirm now is your being DEAD Or still alive,*
*because this MAN'S message brought shock to our minds. And we just*
*can't proceed with him until we confirm if this is a reality OR not,*
*But if it happened we did not hear from you after 7 days, then we say:*

*MAY YOUR SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE" YOUR JOY AND SUCCESS *
*REMAINS OUR GOAL.*

*We await your urgent response.*

So shall I claim the money or announce my death?

 

[d_brennen]

Recently a really eager supplier I use at work. Had to copy in their CEO in telling this sales man that one more unsolicited email or phone call will mean we never order from them again. He literally phoned my mobile number, I told him I was on holiday, he calls back the following day reading the same script. Not to mention the three unanswered emails in the interim

 

[Deleted member 651465]

I got a funny email the other day. It is supposed to be from a Chinese bank. I'll post a selection of the email;

The subject header was;



Then the body;



So shall I claim the money or announce my death?

The only logical response is “I am dead”

 

[ChocAndGray]

Currys at the moment who are sending me "special offers" every day, special mention to AO and Shopto too who are fighting it out for second in terms of how many emails they can send me in one week.....

 

[godinman]

School of squirt and enlarged colon finger testing.

 

[koolpc]

I dont get any junk mail

 

[Ice Tea]

Matalan have been a bit spammy since lockdown.

 

[ChocAndGray]

Do those that don't really get junk mail use Apple devices and icloud emails? I find they're far better than say Gmail where I'd get bombarded daily.

 

[Ice Tea]

From: "s⁣ervice@⁢pay⁣paI.com"

Your PayPal account has been temporarily restricted

PayPal alert! Beware the 'Paypai' scam | ZDNet

20 Jul 2000 — A scam artist last night created an exact replica of PayPal.com and used the fake site to attempt to pilfer user names and passwords from

Only taken them 2 years to get around to spamming me.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

From: "s⁣ervice@⁢pay⁣paI.com"




Only taken them 2 years to get around to spamming me.

Blocked welcome to the spam area.

 

[Ice Tea]

Europeans' data shared 376 times daily in advertising sales, report says

A new report, based on industry figures, shows how often web users' data is shared during ad sales.

www.bbc.co.uk

The report claims that:

• data about US web users' habits are shared in advert sales processes 107 trillion times per year. European users' data is shared 71 billion times
• Germany's individual internet users' data is shared once every minute that they are online, using a calculation based on averages

That is some serious amount of data.