The initial flood is actually a result of the last guy that had my email. I kept getting emails with his name on it. The jerk kept signing up for stuff and when it would ask for an email he'd use his old one (my new one). But by that time I had given that email address out to many of my business customers and really didn't want the hassle of changing it.

My provider offers multiple emails so I had created a new email and began using that one for "serious" work and using my old one for those various sites that require email verification. I then set all emails coming into that old account to just go into the deleted except those that I had created rules for to put into the inbox. However, I h...

The initial flood is actually a result of the last guy that had my email. I kept getting emails with his name on it. The jerk kept signing up for stuff and when it would ask for an email he'd use his old one (my new one). But by that time I had given that email address out to many of my business customers and really didn't want the hassle of changing it.

My provider offers multiple emails so I had created a new email and began using that one for "serious" work and using my old one for those various sites that require email verification. I then set all emails coming into that old account to just go into the deleted except those that I had created rules for to put into the inbox. However, I have caught a few good emails in the garbage where past people had changed THEIR email and wrote to me so my rules didn't catch their new email. No telling how many I've lost because I didn't catch them.

But already within a few months my alternate email is generating as much garbage as my older one.

What annoys me most is that I don't just get one email for a particular spam, but 3 or 4 different versions of the same one, each with a different randomly generated name.

Maybe the hitmen will continue their work and get a few more of those spammers.