Comment by griffineyes
5 days ago
It’s definitely not a fluke. I was getting between 20 and 30 spam emails per day. Simply out of curiosity I deleted my linkedin account and the spam abated. After a week the spam reduced to a trickle and now after a few months I only get a few spam emails per week. Shortly after discovering that LinkedIn was the problem I deleted Indeed as well. Indeed has a fairly robust data deletion program.
This seems to be exactly the opposite of what I was describing.
While I had a LinkedIn account I was not receiving spam.
When I deleted my account, the spam started, and continues to this day.(+)
(+) Which is not a surprise ... once an email address has been leaked it gets onto lists and the spam will never end.