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Originally Posted by NALEM
Thanks TFCash, Barry, Ray, and OnWebCam for your insight.
For the 8 years +/- that I had this account, very little spam came in. Several days ago I was overwhelmed and was thinking WTF. They mostly shared the same characteristic of appearing to be a "reply" to a message supposedly sent from us. I have been blocking them as they come in, and it has slowed down by about 80%.
A few more days, and this problem will get solved.
Again thanks for the comments.  |
Problem isn't really solved - you're blocking the bounces at your end (those "replies" are mail servers saying they're rejecting the mail), but tons of people are still being sent spam using your email address as the source. You can't really do much about that, except hope that your email was just a random selection and they'll eventually move on to using something else.
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