Anyone else notice a significant reduction in phishing and spam recently?

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I’ve been battling spam, especially phishing, for months, setting up filters, reporting it daily. All of a sudden, this past week, I am getting very little–some days none at all. I wonder if the authorities took down some miscreant organization.

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I think that may be possible. I was getting quite a bit of spam and phishing too, and now it’s down to two or three per email session. I hope so.

Being 20 something in the 70's was so much better than being 70 something in the insane 20's

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I get almost no spam or phishing despite having email with several providers. Not had one for weeks.  🙂
No idea why.

Is the spammed address on a particular email service? Maybe that service have improved their malware filtering?

cheers, Paul

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The volume of spam messages that I receive seems unchanged. However, spammers have resumed including text in the subject field of their messages.

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Just as a matter of fact, I only get spammed on the one email address that I give out to people and in particular, businesses that swear they won’t give it out or sell it.

Being 20 something in the 70's was so much better than being 70 something in the insane 20's

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Not long ago, GOOG, MSFT (& others?) began more agressive blocking — to the point where legitimate emails are sometimes silently blocked from the intended recipient. It’s getting to the point where unless you’re sending GOOG –> GOOG or MSFT –> MSFT mail delivery is up in the air.

I hate spam as much as the next person, but in my opinion, any “solution” that blocks legitimate mail is not a solution.

The best a regular person/business can do is:

1. Ensure your mail server IPs are clean

2. Setup reverse DNS on the IP(s)

3. Setup DKIM, DMARC, & SPF

The above still works for most servers (it is what I use), but I’ve always seen customers send mail from GOOG –> MSFT (and vice versa) with the mail never arriving in spam box or otherwise.

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I noticed a huge increase in spam and other unwanted and presumably potentially dangerous email in two of my three roadrunner.com email addresses that I previously had with Time-Warner Cable and now with Charter Cable (Spectrum) that began earlier this year (perhaps early March) — increasing from maybe six per address per day to twenty or more per day per address. Yes there has been a significant decrease in volume this month, but not back to where it had been before the dramatic increase earlier.

 

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