You are just seeing the email part 😊 Spammers have found a wider range of messaging products to abuse, and more users are using those products as opposed to email. So a lot of the spammers just pivoted to abusing elsewhere.
Email spam groups are still quite active though, some have been operating for a very long time. From: John Levine via NANOG <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, 17 August 2025 at 9:36 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Cc: John Levine <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Worsening google service reputation and abuse It appears that Tom Beecher via NANOG <[email protected]> said: >> >> Barry has a reasonable theory - that the economics of spamming is brittle - >> but it is just that: a theory. > > >Part of the theory itself is generally sound. If spamming isn't making >someone money, much less spam would be sent. > >However, the assertion that the spam economy is 'fragile' doesn't really >hold up. The number of spam emails hasn't substantively decreased in a long >time. Year over year, it's generally flat to increasing. ... I'm still seeing 90% spam but many people I know say that it's dropped to more like 50%. My guess is that the spammers have just figured out how to do it a little more efficiently. 50% is still awful. T's, John PS: my system is small and strange and has a lot of honeypots so I'm not surprised spammers keep trying. _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PYWKOLEICZOQFN3PUWG7GC5KPWOEKIIJ/ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TR4RVCGND5FADXXT3642WO53SMCWCP62/
