How much spam email do you get in a week (estimate)?

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heh, i get 150-250 on my spam account every week. i dont get any on my personal account, mainly because i dont give it out except to friends, and a select few sites.

I'm using hotmail and the only spam I get is that MSN news crap. That's only about once a month so I can live with that.

I use Mail Washer Program, it helps me sort the spam out by bouncing it back to the sender. Usually I get around 25 to 40 a week.

I usually use emails from tolitz.com and opentechsupport.net, and both of them use Spamassassin, which automatically tags suspected spam before they reach my inbox ... so I just created a rule in Outlook 2000 to automatically redirect email that is tagged "SPAM" directly to my Deleted Items folder ... there, I can just review them and delete them ...

http://www.tolitz.com/images/ots/outlook-spam.jpg

I get more than 200 spam emails a week ... it's almost a given when you have the contact email address of OTS in all pages of this website

I dunno what it is with rogers as an ISP, but I receive NO spam on those addresses. They claimed magical email spam blocking capabilities, but I shrugged it off as marketting. Guess I was wrong.

I also get no spam at work. Or on my hotmail account.

Go figure!

Originally posted by Nova Z
I also get no spam at work. Or on my hotmail account.

Go figure!

No one likes you!

or

They know you have no money!

I have so much money my apartment looks like the treasure room from pirate movies!

Of course, that's mostly cause here in Canada we have both 1$ and 2$ coins. And I don't carry change in my pocket, so every night I just put my change in a pile somewhere... I have all these little piles of money.

I wonder how much I have in those piles? I wouldn't be surprised if there were 100$ or more.

I get more than 100 a week. My favorite subject line is: "Is J-Lo a J-Ho?". Who the hell comes up with that stuff?

I don't get any at all.

I clicked "10 to 50" pieces a week.. but that's across three different e-mail accounts. Two of those accounts are on Hotmail, where I get 99% of my spam -- most of it from something called "emailhelo.com." When I try to filter it using Hotmail's filters, it just tells me that "in order to receive important administration messages about your account, this address cannot be marked as junk."

They come from names like "Michael," "Michele," "Shannon," "Chris," etc, with message titles like "You'll wanna see this," "You should read this!", "This is so cool," "REALLY fun stuff" etc. Then it's an ad for a cell phone or something.

So I just set up filters to deliver all emailhelo messages directly to the trash can.

I get all sorts of spam.

the level of spam you get is directly proportional to the number of 'free stuff', 'contest', 'newsletters' to the power of n which is how many companies they will sell your email address to.

so basically if you sign up for more than 3+ free stuff you should be getting around like 80 pieces of junk a day. WHEEE

dr freak

not necessarily. My spam0@rogers.com account I used to sign up for anything that requires an email address... but I have yet to get ANY spam on it.

Go figure.