SpamSomething happened to me today that I thought was pretty odd. Have you ever noticed that when you get email spam, you get a few pieces of spam at a time? Almost like it all came from the same person. Well earlier today I was driving along, running a few errands and happen to check my personal email account on my iPhone. I hit the refresh button on my email account and waited for it to retrieve my email.

I have my iPhone set to retrieve the 25 latest emails in each account. I sit and wait and then I hear the lovely sound the phone makes when I have new mail. The wierd thing is I had 25 pieces of spam email. All sent at the same time. 15 of those emails were all the same exact email, sent by the same person. This is when I wish the iPhone had a spam button.

Now Im not going to make the Dvorak claim and say "I gets no spam", but my personal email account, which I have through Yahoo, have the spam pretty much controlled. Only a few peices get through the spam filters. But like I said, its my personal email account. I ussually dont use it for anything except to email friends and family members. That email address just doesnt get out to spammers as often as say my website email (which I use gmail). So to get 25 peices of spam in a row like that was kindof odd.

Is Gmail the new favorite of Spammers?

That wasnt all. Once I got home to my computer, I went to get rid of all the spam (and block the email address that sent it) and notice there were a lot more than 25 pieces of email. Infact every email on the front page of my inbox was spam, all sent within minutes of eachother, most were the same spam and a lot were from the same email address. A Gmail address, which Im finding is being used more and more by spammers. Starting to remind me of how Hotmail use to be.