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One thing that jumped out at me:

> countless surprise instances of legitimate emails going to Junk

I think the definition of "legitimate" is in the eye of the beholder.

Some folks believe that their "p3n15 extension" email is legit.

Hard-core spam has wrecked the internet. There's a lot of money in it, so these moneyed people will find a way to bypass anything, because services will spring up, that will sell that.

I have an email address that receives mail on 3 domains. Only one of them is "legit," so any email that comes in on the other two, is automatically spam-canned. Apple won't let me turn off the other two domains (me.com and icloud.com), so I have to set a rule in my client to can them.

They get hundreds of spams (many are scams), each day. These are just the ones that passed the "low-hanging fruit" filters the email server does, so I assume that I actually get thousands each day.

I was just talking to someone today, who got his PayPal account pwn3d; probably by following the directions in a well-crafted phishing email. These things work, so no one will stop doing it; especially since the cost is so low, and the ROI is pretty good.

The only thing that is likely to stop the spam tsunami, is a cost to send. No one wants to do that.




it's in the eye of the recipient and happens all the time for nonsensical reasons


I agree, but people with money, like to argue otherwise.

For some reason, folks like listening to people shuffling a handful of benjamins, more than the poor schlubs getting the spam.




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