Did anyone else get slammed by email this weekend?

Typically I have 150-200 emails when I login every day, 75% of which is spam.

Yesterday I logged in to 1950 emails! More than 80% of which was spam... mostly Failure/Undeliverable/Returned subject lines.

This morning it's 1400 :(

I use mailwasher, which is wonderful... but with that much crap, it's still a pain in the rump!

Been quiet lately for me, both my Yahoo account and RR. It took about a week to accumulate a dozen in the Yahoo bulk mail. One of them was from Fanta77 at AMHD. I checked the member list and she seems to already be an unperson.

Lately I've been getting a lot of spam with "[-SPAM-]" at the beginning of the subject line, how very ethical of them. *filtered*

Sorry Labman I watched them send you that mail just before they where "removed" ;)

Rick, as you know spam filters are not perfect.
What you are seeing is a change of tactic before the filters have been updated.

I stopped using ISP mail years ago and now my primary mail goes through Gmail.
I find there filters to be excellent and regularly updated.

Did anyone else get slammed by email this weekend?

Typically I have 150-200 emails when I login every day, 75% of which is spam.

Yesterday I logged in to 1950 emails! more than 80% of which was spam...mostly Failure/Undeliverable/Returned subject lines.

This morning it's 1400 :(

I use mailwasher, which is wonderful...but with that much crap, it's still a pain in the rump!

I think this means that a spammer has gotten your email address and is using it in the "From" line of the spam they send out. So when they send spam to an undeliverable address it gets bounced back to you. Take a look at the body of the message of one of those undeliverables you received and look at the "From" line.

That happened to me awhile ago and I think I got a few hundred of those over a day or two. Obviously the spammer who used my address wasn't as prolific as yours.

If this is what happened then I have no idea what you can do, other than hitting the delete key a lot.