Spam In Email Spam Box

[fiction-factory]

I have one email account which I only use for family, friends, employers and utilty and banks.

For the last couple of months I have received at least 30-40 emails a day in my spam box all appearing to come from ATTCustomerCare @ emaildl.att-mail.com or from ATTCustomerCare @ some random collection of letters dot com. They are all the usual rubbish- bitcoin, Russian women, exotic brides, gambling sites, debt consolidation...

Blocking them or filtering them doesn't work as the raw headers show the true sender as being a blank or sometimes as other.com names which differ slightly every time.
Reporting them to abuse @ ATT.net makes no difference either and I'm sure they will say it's not their problem as they are not sending them.

Does anyone know please why this is happening- why always ATT- and is there a solution?

I can live with it for now but I'm wondering if it shows a problem either with my PC or my email account. .

Anyone had a similar experience?

Thanks

[Guilbert53]

Sadly once you are on a spammers hit list there is not much you can do.

Like you I also have an email address that was ONLY used for my family and a few close friends (so only a dozen or so people). I never used it on web sites etc. as I have other email addresses I use for web sites, banking etc.

About a year ago, out of the blue, it began to get spam and I now get about 50 spam a day (which all goes in to my spam folder).

All seems to be US based (Trump, US Medical Care, US car repair etc).

I keep hoping that one day they will catch the b*****s who are sending it and it will stop, but it has been going on for over a year now.

I think my only choice is to set up another email address and tell all my relatives and friends about my new email address.

I have no idea how they got my email address (and it is not JUST based on my name like John Smith or whatever it is more obscure than that).

[EDDIE51]

My spam box is set to delete any unread items after 10 days so I don't worry about anything in there. Can you not just do the same?

[fiction-factory]

Easier than that eddie- I can simply delete it straight away or just let it lie there forever. I can't ignore my spam box though as occasionally something slips in there that is genuine mail so I do check it every day and then delete.
But I was wondering whether there was something to worry about such as when spam purporting to come from me was sent to myself and others.