There is one more: I have one address shared with about 100 private users in Germany. Many of them not technical at all. It gets German phishing attempts all th

There is one more: I have one address shared with about 100 private users in Germany. Many of them not technical at all. It gets German phishing attempts all the time, maybe 1-2 per month. I assume a user was infected by malware. Edit: And there has always been spam to my gmail address. I have shared/stored my gmail address in extremely few locations just for forwarding and it's of form first.last@gmail.com. There are only 3-5 people on the planet with the same name. The spam comes without dot so I guess it's not from a list of email addresses, but generated from a list of names. My name has been on the Internet e.g. in Usenet and in scientific papers many times long before gmail existed. Volume is not too bad, a couple of them every month. It was worse years ago.