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I get a few a day with my hotmail account that I have had since I first got on the internet back then it was with msn dial up. Maybe like 4 a day, many days none. I have a yahoo account that gets little usage, it is as mentioned one of the extra accounts, I hardly ever have spam. I have a gmail account, which is basically my second used account. It will get a few a month not many. I have no special filters set on any of them just the normal spam filters turned on. I have 2 accounts with comcast who is my ISP, I have never used either one for email, one is tied to an online account and I get updates there but no spam. The other one which I have never ever sent out an email from or received one for myself, well that one has tons of emails and spam on it every time I check it which is rarely. I have no idea why. I think possibly someone else had that same email address previously with comcast and it was terminated and I am now getting all the residuals. Very strange. IN fact the one time I was going to use that address was to sign up for an account and I got a message back saying that email address was already in use by someone else. Changing to a new account is easy and you can still use yahoo just change to a new account, don't close the old one leave it alone. Inform all your legit contacts of the new address so they start to use it instead of the old one. You can still access the old one for whatever you have on it if you don't either transfer it to the new account or save it to your computer. but the new email address will be fresh and should not be getting all the spam. Just be sure you do turn on all the security and spam features in settings. It is never a good idea to store things on your email account. To often they can be lost due to something happening on their servers. If it is important save it to your computer or to an online storage site.

This is why spam email is so effective; you actually opened these and clicked on links in them. There are very few google results for labshwest dot com; one result located it in Germany. It may be benign (so far) as there are many watchdog websites that report spam email addresses if they have harmful activities connected to them. Just delete such mails, or do a search for the abc.com portion of them if you want to know more.

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