Who’s messing with my junk?
I don’t think I’m unique in being plagued by unwanted SPAM/phishing/419 scam/etc. and in recent years my email provider has been reasonably good at automatically moving them to a Junk Mail folder which I regularly check for overzealous filtering. However for about two weeks I got nothing in there: - no urgent PayPal security update; no request to confirm my bank password; no Nigerian princess wanted to send me $$$; nada. I was hopeful that Interpol had rounded up all the spambots and their owners, locked them up and thrown away the key. Sadly they’ve just started again and I’m back to my usual 20 or so per day.
So what changed? Was someone stealing my Junk Mail? Did I miss a strike of the global SPAMmers union? Coincidence? (I don’t believe in coincidences). Any ideas?