Recent deluge of Spam (not Sky related)

[Ralph]

Has anybody else experienced a massive increase in spam in the last few days?

Today was relatively quiet - ony 74!

However from Friday to Monday I received WELL over 1000. I stopped counting, but I would guess about 2500.


Typically:-
Viagra
Cialis
Dodgy shares
Weight loss
and many with complete gibberish with a web link.

None get to my computer as I use Mailwasher. They are deleted on the mail server before downloading. However half of them need manual deleting rather than being caught by my filters & auto deleted.

My bespoke email addresses are a couple of years old, so have done the rounds. All my mail is forwarded to my Sky ones. My Sky ones are not openly used at all.

[Alan b]

I have my own domain so I can set up as many e-mail addresses as I like, the mail from these gets forwarded to my main address or can't be sent to another address altogether.

I am not planning on using my Sky address except to give to close friends and family.

[SatDish]

only spam i get on my sky email addy is from sky them selfs.

Glenn

[NewsreadeR]

There is the same problems as this reported at Plusnet in their forums and also Freedom 2 Surf in the support forums.

Obviously someone has found a way through all the filtering etc.

I easily get at least 50-100 a day and my email address aint public :-(