Real And Junk Email Accounts

We have several email accounts round here.

Some for real, some for one time use like sign-in to web sites some for just in case needed. One almost real name like firstletterlastname@email.com like a business account have only had two emails in over a year. Only 2! The welcome message as normal and 1 that was expected from the intended sender. No spam and never nothing else.

Have one that was a nickname account - use @ two big box stores/ company's. One a children's cereal to try to get 3rd graders readers book offers. Another at a big box store with a zillion books for a scrable cheat sheet book for an incarcerated family member as the only way it could be sent.

This one used at these 2 respected companies gets thousands of junk and never anything of use. This kind of stuff was expected but not exprcted from these two sources. So no harm done. Lat time I clean the junk folder was 1781 emails after 10 days. Up to about 100 now in less than 2 days.

What's the most junk anyone has recieved and what kind of least likely sources sold your address?

 

Junk and Spam hit the yahoo account I use for friends and family daily, everything from Facebook invites from people I do not know or want to know to invites from undesirables sites I have never visited nor would ever visit. Thankfully it all goes directly to Spam and I never open it. Oddly that is not the email account I use for online signups and the email I use for that receives very little Spam. I would of thought it would be the other way around.
I think one of the reasons for the Spam is because over the years friends and family have forwarded email to everyone they know without cleaning it up and removing other peoples email addresses off it first. As for selling email addresses it could be anyone.

 

Spot on!
A friend and one of my sisters always forwarded funny emails that were sent to them and 10 other people.
And everytime I got 10 email addresses of people I don't know. To me it meant nothing, but to the next person... who knows.

 

The abused account has 350 since last time so maybe a slower week. I did notice twice as many sent for Friday. Maybe spammers trying for an end of the week payday. Ha! The newer account has nil still. One mans junk another man's treasure?' I don't think so' Tim.

One funny one I had way back when was a Hotmail - my first one- I answered a survey for a free copy of XP. Halfway thru I realized it was a trick so I x'd out and went somewhere else. Later the next day I get 1800 something junk, I called MS told them what happened and to delete the account and I made a new one. The call center probably got a good laugh on that one.