The Spam Race
For the past week I've conducted a little experiment in spam. Namely how much my wife receives versus how much I receive. She has an extensive 'online presence', joining groups, playing games, and buying from retailers. I have almost none of that activity. As you probably already know the more your email address is 'out there' the more likely it is to be picked up by undesirables.
So what were the results of the week-long spam parade?
Her: 256
Me: 1
Of those the majority were the 'cloud storage' scam, followed by the 'security alert' scam, and then the 'your free gift' scam. The were a few more inventive ones, but by and large it was half a dozen at a time warning about storage accounts she doesn't have, security threats that aren't real, a gifts from stores she has never done business with. They were largely blatantly obvious due to the rapid receiving of multiple identical messages from clearly fake senders (no one has your name as their identity). None of them would have fooled a child older than six.
What this demonstrates is not only that it's 'classic' spam, but also that it's utterly pointless since no one literate enough to use email would also be dumb enough not to recognise the red flags. If you are, seek help.
I kind of feel left out having received only one spam telling me my iCloud account payment had failed and all my email, photos, and videos were going to be deleted. (Oh; the 'deadline' to stop this is always the day you get the message.)
Anyway, if you must waste so much of your life online use a 'throw-away' address for the junk you sign up for. That way you can safely ignore the contents in total. Any important email should have a dedicated, private and secure server and you never use it for anything else.
Even then, there will be that one spam. But at least it won't be 40 per day.