My email spam has switched to power tools, cryptocurrency, IMF disbursements, and YETI coolers. Interesting how these things turn over, like a kaleidoscope.
Odd. My blog email, which I set up to minimize the spam in my personal account, has no spam. My personal email.. Hmm. A new come-on: "Your body and character make me so excited". Otherwise... Golf invitation, phone cases, auto insurance, Walmart confirmation receipt!, dear beneficiary, covid-relief, Ukrainian girls... A little different from a few years ago. I think it was mostly Russian girls then.
My email provider is very good about filtering those types of spam so that I never see them. What shows up in my spam folder are mostly promotion emails from Instacart that I moved to trash without reading often enough that they are now recognized as spam. I pay for this email and consider it money well-spent for several reasons.
I also have a "spam" gmail account which probably does get that stuff... I wouldn't know because I never look at the spam folder. I use the gmail account for most websites, disqus, quora, etc.
I have noticed the ads I'm served on various sites are more random than usual -- strange things I've never searched for, such as 7-gallon buckets or breaker boxes. Perhaps these are the result of occasionally searching for things I'm not the least bit interested in to confuse the bots... though I haven't searched for Kubota tractor parts or prom dresses in a while.
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Odd. My blog email, which I set up to minimize the spam in my personal account, has no spam.
My personal email..
Hmm. A new come-on: "Your body and character make me so excited".
Otherwise...
Golf invitation, phone cases, auto insurance, Walmart confirmation receipt!, dear beneficiary, covid-relief, Ukrainian girls...
A little different from a few years ago. I think it was mostly Russian girls then.
My email provider is very good about filtering those types of spam so that I never see them. What shows up in my spam folder are mostly promotion emails from Instacart that I moved to trash without reading often enough that they are now recognized as spam. I pay for this email and consider it money well-spent for several reasons.
I also have a "spam" gmail account which probably does get that stuff... I wouldn't know because I never look at the spam folder. I use the gmail account for most websites, disqus, quora, etc.
I have noticed the ads I'm served on various sites are more random than usual -- strange things I've never searched for, such as 7-gallon buckets or breaker boxes. Perhaps these are the result of occasionally searching for things I'm not the least bit interested in to confuse the bots... though I haven't searched for Kubota tractor parts or prom dresses in a while.
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