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posted: 21 Aug 2018 14:42

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Martin Wynne
 
West Of The Severn - United Kingdom

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Hmm. Interesting.

For the last few weeks I have been fending off dozens of scam/phishing emails every day.

But this morning I was pleasantly surprised to find that there had been none overnight. And so far today none.

Then I noticed this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45257081

May be a coincidence, or maybe not?

I know I could use spam filtering, but I have always found the filters unreliable, and likely to find too many false positives. I prefer to do my own filtering, but it can get tedious.

Martin.

posted: 21 Aug 2018 16:16

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Nigel Brown
 
 

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Don't seem to get scam emails these days. I have AVG, and maybe that's blocking them.

Nuisance telephone calls are a different matter. Loads of "This is Windows support. Your computer is infected. Turn on your computer and do what we tell you. Now!!!". I usually just put the phone down; sometimes if I'm in the mood I play along to see much of their time I can waste. The other frequent one is free boiler replacement.



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