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 <nanog@lists.nanog.org> Date: Sunday, 17 August 2025 at 9:36 PM To: nanog@lists.nanog.org <nanog@lists.nanog.org> Cc: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> Subject: Re: Worsening google service reputation and abuse It appears that Tom Beecher via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> 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/nanog@lists.nanog.org/message/PYWKOLEI...