
What exactly are these spam emails hoping to achieve?
I’m getting a noticeable increase in junk email like these. It’s doubled in the last few months from 25 a day to over 50 a day.
Not a lot for some - but it’s a starting to get seriously irritating for me as occasionally stuff I need to see hits my junk folder as well.
I can see some purport to be from real companies or pretend my icloud will be blocked etc, but the bulk seem to be a nonsense mix of crap.
So that begs the question, what exactly is their purpose? “Proper” scams are seemingly a lot less fake looking than these.
The other question I have is that these are so obviously spam (nonsense domains / reply to addresses) - why are they not dealt with at a higher level before they hit my mail box?
(Outlook web user)