That's a new one but obviously your Insurance company sells "advertisers" lists of subscribers who have had auto accidents. Probably on a daily basis.
Who is the insurance company? My guess is the pitch is that people who have auto accidents might want to replace vehicles, or find lawyers or whatever. At least that was the pitch likely made to your insurance company. My suggestion is you write the CEO a polite letter with some of the nastier examples of the spams you are getting and ask them to end the practice. The amount of money they get by doing this is likely small and they probably don't realize that any commercial business that survives on spamming is just going to sell email addresses to the bottom of the barrel scrapers. The other possibility is you posted about the accident on social media and the spam scrapers picked up the post. Ted -----Original Message----- From: PLUG <plug-boun...@lists.pdxlinux.org> On Behalf Of American Citizen Sent: Monday, July 28, 2025 6:48 PM To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <plug@lists.pdxlinux.org> Subject: [PLUG] curious how this happened? (and why?) Can anyone figure out why this happening after my automobile accident? Mid-afternoon, last mid-week, I was involved in a 2-car accident in Vancouver. It was a traumatic experience for me. However I noticed about 1-2 hours after the incident, that my main mail account was suddenly receiving spam. I had not had spam for months on this account. Now all of a sudden spam starts arriving. I did NOT communicate with my insurance company at all through that mail account and I carefully checked for any emails, there were none between us at all on that email address. Then after that afternoon, the spam door opened further the next day and every day now I am getting scores of spam per day, about 1/2 are illicit proposals and very offensive. This morning, for example I received 16 illicit proposals, of a very offending nature. Some of the mail is purportedly from my automobile insurance company and offering me deals and rewards. Others are of a threatening nature, like one of my accounts is about to be deleted, or I missed a payment, that type of stuff. It is very obvious that my auto-accident triggered all this. Is there anyway to send feedback up the line, or shall I just continue to empty the spam bucket hourly? How could an auto-accident trigger all this anyways? I truly am astonished. Randall
