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I have a quarter of a century old hotmail account. The amount of junk-mail has always been high, but now something new has happened. When I enter the mailbox and start deleting spam, it seems like this triggers more spam to come flooding in the same second. Typically 6-8 new junk mails.
Is this some kind of virus?
Anyone else experiencing this?
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I get similar on my Google email ( when using phone). As I delete one or two , several appear. I keep deleting to see what happens. They eventually stop , until tomorrow! I wouldn't have though a virus. Maybe the deleting is like a trigger, a sort of shit magnet?
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Never heard of that happening but spam mail is very erratic. Sometimes I'll get a ton in my regular inbox for a while then it stops. Sometimes I get a ton in my spam folder then a week later hardly nothing. Then a lot again. I think its the email provider learning as it goes. Weeding out spam when it can. I assume you never open spam mail and just delete it? Opening spam mail tells the spammer you have an active email account. Also, never try to "unsubscribe" to spam mail, that also tells the spammer your email account is active and it will spam you even more.
I almost always check my mail on my phone, and on the phone it is not possible to delete the spam in my inbox (yes, many of them arrive in the inbox) without clicking on the mail first. (It's different on my laptop.)
The spam in my junkbox is possible to delete all-in-one-click without having to click on the messages.
I have reported the mails as "phishing" now, let's see if it helps.
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I hit unsubscribe and reported mails as phishing. Looks like it did the trick, the "triggered" mails have stopped coming.
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