I have been 16 years with same personal Gmail address. I'm always careful who gets it. Well somehow it's been exposed to spammers. I went from no spam to 30 to 60 per day. I block and report every one but it just won't stop. They hit my inbox nonstop. How can I stop this? Please help . I wanted to post a screenshot of inbox but can't figure out how to do that without a url.
I've had my regular gmail box and the 2nd rando/spamo gmail box for 20? years and have never had a problem. Don't give anyone your normal email addy. Once you do that, sorry, but I don't know how to fix it. Look in the fine print at the bottom of every spam email and see if there's an "unsubscribe" link?
I've had my gmail address forever and spam has never been an issue. However, earlier this month, I was shocked that 2 or 3 spam emails slipped through one day. Fortunately, there have been none since.
I have a filter that bundles them all into one email per day and you can look to see if there's any important ones that somehow made it on your list and release them. Some of the worst offenders are Amazon, Fanatics and maybe the worst overall is Fubo TV. Fubo is hitting me 4 or 5 times a day and that's just because I did their 7 day trial a few years ago.
Google used to do a good job of filtering this crap out. Over the last year, my gmail account now looks like my yahoo account.
If this is taking up a lot of your day, you can buy your own domain for like $15 a year, sign up for sites with something like "[email protected]" and "[email protected]" and if it gets spammed you can just delete the forwarding rule. There is also "simplelogin" that i think is owned by proton mail... Forwarding service that presumably doesn't log subject line and sender. Also the old . or + to your gmail when signing up.... It's pretty trivial to filter out by a good spammer, but it still works a lot of times.
When I was a roaming Tech .. it was crazy to see people with 15~20000 emails in their inbox. Rocket River MAKE FOLDERS MAN!!! DELETE SOME ISHT!!
ProtonMail discounts subscriptions around Black Friday of every year and you can get a SimpleLogin account with it to create email aliases. When you get the bs email from corporations that couldn't care less and are somehow immune to their own ineptitude stating "We take our customers' personal information seriously.... that's why we accidentally just gave away our database of user info to we have no idea who..." you can then delete/disable/replace the offending email. The only negative of this is the alias email aliases aren't easy to remember, and it probably works best if you have almost a separate email for each contact (thought that's not necessary). This would work best with a password manager program, I guess.
