For those of you that have good spam blockers, you may not have seen the stock manipulators methods. And that's great! They use a completely different email sever, account, host, whatever you call it. A different sender name and a different subject line. Then, there's about 250 words of nonsense included that looks like benign text. I think they are rather good at what they do. Of course, I can always spot it when I open my email and as I said, I can delete it where I have most of my commercial mail sent. I guess I screwed up by emailing some general questions to some of the suppliers we do business with using my more convenient account. Apparently, any mail sent is subject to interception and mining of the sender's addy.
I'll just move the current "convenient" addy out of my OE and let it all dump in the Verizon Mail Box. I can't change that, because that's my ISP. I guess I'll always get spam there. I even have a "vacation" reply that says I don't even look, but they (the spammers) don't allow replies, so they never see that nor care.
You know, it's just like the damn mail box on the front of my house. I get so much crap there that I have inadvertently shredded credit cards and viable bills. I grind up much every day as a matter of course. If it's prepaid postage and not expected, it gets shredded. Oh yeah, I written Mail Preference in NY and I've called in my numbers to the national do-not-call deal too. You think any of that stops mail and calls? Nope.
Actually, I don't mind the mail. If I get 30 pieces of junk a week, I know the PO is making some money. They need it to stay in business and we have the best mail service in the world,
AFAIK.
I wish I could say that about the phones. Still, we have better than many. So, I guess I should just get over the spam and start a new email account every 3 months or so. I mean who cares if I end up with a hundred email addys. Not me. I will just look in the one that is the newest. Screw the rest.