The original post: /r/privacy by /u/Extension-Iron-7746 on 2024-12-27 15:11:11.

Hello everyone,

I would like some advice regarding my Gmail inbox.

Since November I have started receiving hundreds of spam emails, every single day about 100-120 emails arrive, all 100% correctly filtered by Gmail but now I am starting to fear for the security of the account and I don’t know if it is the case to change my email address directly.

The phenomenon continues without stopping, there was only a slight decrease, and then exploded again.

I have two-factor authentication active and I have not yet had any login attempts, but having never received even a single spam email, now this explosion makes me fear that something could happen in the future.

I have checked various accounts to which the email is associated but there have been no access violations.

Each associated account has a different password.

I have never given access to third parties to the account and only WhatsApp has access to drive to save the backup.

What do you recommend?

I really don’t know whether to proceed with closing the mailbox, with all the inconveniences that this entails, or simply continue to empty the spam folder without interacting with the spam that arrives.

I await your opinion.

Thanks