I never used to get spam in my regular mailbox. I have a number of webmail accounts (hotmail, yahoo, etc) that I use when I need an email address to sign up for something. Even my kayjay address is webmail. My personal e-mail only ever gets sent to people I know personally, or for business (like my credit union).
Yet recently the spam has finally found me. First it was a couple of "business opportunity" spam messages. In the past few days, however, I have gotten a deluge of horse pr0n spam. What. The. Hell. Did I somehow get put on a "Catherine the Great" mailing list?
I really don't want to change my e-mail address. I love my address, plus it would be inconvenient as hell. I think I'll wait and see how much the spam increases
Spammers are among the lowest of the low.
I empathize with you, cuz. Between Hong Kong and Taiwan spammers at work (in Chinese, which I don't understand) and Brazilian losers at home (in Portuguese, which I also don't understand), plus the, ahem, "male enhancement" BS, I want to strangle the scumbags. Having a good spamblocker at home helps, though, and I was fortunate enough to have our IT folks change my work e-mail. The spamblock I use is Windows-only, otherwise I'd recommend it to you, but Tucows should have something decent for Macs.