Unusually High Volume of Spam

[Bob]

For the last couple days, I have been receiving literally hundreds to thousands of spam messages a day at my yahoo email. Is there any way to rectify this, or do I just need to get a new email address? I have used this one for the last 12-15 years so it's kind of a pain to switch now.

[dochielomn]

Same thing been happening to me for my yahoo email. I just do my best to go through and hit the option to unsubscribe in hopes that maybe I won't get any more of these types of emails. I did this awhile back and it appeared to work but recently, it's been coming back.

[Bob]

I have been unsubscribing diligently from every spam message I have received. I am not sure if it's helping yet. It is strange because I went from almost no spam to 10-20 messages an hour overnight. It seems to have slowed a bit with all of the unsubscribing I have been doing, but only time will tell if I can get it back to the way it was.

[kevm14]

Bill suggested to check your paypal and ebay account for fraudulent activity. And see if any of the spam looks like more than just spam.

[Adam]

Related?

http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/03/technol ... index.html

[kevm14]

That was in 2013 and 2014. So...no?

[Adam]

That was in 2013 and 2014. So...no?

It takes a while for that stuff to filter down to spammers, mostly from a price standpoint.

[Adam]

Or Yahoo has just given up and is slowly turning things off (like their spam filters).