Are you getting less email spam in the weekends ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Or in other words is my new #showerthought suspicion that some computers in business or organisation offices are unintentionally part of spam botnets valid or not ?

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[-] solitaire@infosec.pub 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I can't remember the last time I got a spam email honestly. I changed my address like 5+ years ago and it just stopped and never resumed. It's not the email provider filtering them either, the only thing it catches are legitimate but automated messages.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I have a less than 1 year old email address that is publicly listed as the support email for my company, and it gets spam (that don’t get through the email screener, but they’re still received).

I think it’s a matter of how publicly known your email address is.

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