I don't think this is off-topic, as it's starting to interfere with my email-on-the-road capability.

In the last week or two, my daily email spam to my "public" email account has increased from 5-10 to 30-50 or more a day. It's all the same kind of garbage and from a variety of spammers. I use MailWasher to catch it and it's about 90% effective, but I do have to skim the senders just in case something go misidentified. I'm wondering if it's me or if everyone is experiencing this nuisance.

No. I used to get a lot, but now my ISP has gotten much better at blocking it.

Yeah, over the summer i got 3257 spam in 9 weeks

Postini catches 99% of mine, with virtually no false-positives. The few that get through are caught by Outlook's SPAM filter.

I get very little spam that isn't caught by Gmail (personal) or Zimbra (work) spam filtering setups. Not even an average of one per day in each account, I'd say. When one does slip by I always mark it spam to train the system (this is something I wish I could get more users at work to understand). I haven't had any problem with false positives. Seems to be working very well. I usually don't even look in the spam folders anymore.

My Gmail spam folder has about 1200 items, and at work the folder has 150. They auto delete after 30 days, so that's representative of what I get per month. I think the work number is so much lower because above a certain threshold that server actually kills the messages before they even reach my spam folder. Not sure that Gmail does that.

My Gmail recently started getting spam pretty much daily (it's over three years old), although it all winds up in the Spam folder. I've got 46 since August 20.

Yes, I noticed. This is a cat and mouse game of technology.

My gmaul was pretty good and then all of a sudden got slammed. It still does a good job in catching most spam but the volume has certainly increased many-fold.

I also wonder about the many sites who claim to keep your personal email private. I think many do not after I order a few items online resulted in a spam explosion.

Jayson

I use Thunderbird to filter a lot of spams, and it works pretty well.. but I still see
several spams go through every day.

spam count on my personal email for past 7-8 months is about
14k (11450+2654)

On the mail server, there is no spam filter at the moment, but in past
I used to have DNSBL (Spamcop and few others) blocking. Thinking
about putting it back on.

I know the source of my SPAMS, its due to some compassionate friends who
forwarded emails to a million people in hopes to generate charity for some
poor kid suffering from some illness... grrrr

For all companies.. banks, credit cards, subscriptions, online merchants, airlines..
I have specific email address for them.. all emails end up in the same box, but
I can tell who is really sending and if the address is spammed, I can block it
and call up that company and scream at them.

Many got leaked and spammed, but the recent ones I recalls were leaked from:

SIA (Security Industry Association) I had registered for a show pass and
I started getting spams from online pharmacies to this address.

BMG: Music thing

Ringo: (some friend sent me ain invite from there... and got spammed)

Qantas: They probably disclosed my info to some travel related business and got leaked to some spammers.

My company of about 900 employees uses a corporate spam filter, that scans inbound and outbound email for spam.

I have access to some stats, and it doesn't appear that the spam problem is much different over the past 9 months - consistently, 94%-97% of our inbound email is spam (based on roughly 16 million emails received per month, on average).

mlk

what happened to the reduction of SPAM as a result of this incident?
http://flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=698848

With SpamAssassin and Gmail I receive spam but never see it. ^

This recent increase in spam is the result of our friends who run the Russian Business Network and their lovely piece malware called the Storm Worm.

All my email accounts get spams, despite the filters. Gmail is not entirely clean either. I am sick of it.

I second what others have had to say about gmail. I get about 500-2000 spam a day (the record was about 35,000 in a day!), and gmail is the only thing that I've found that could make my situation something I could live with. I forward all my e-mail addresses to gmail, and they do an astoundingly good job of separating the wheat from the chaff.