Have you noticed a dramatic rise in SPAM email recently?  Ours seems to have increased substantially.  A significant amount of these are related to holiday solicitations and Christmas shopping.  I've also noticed some new spoofing attempts disguised as Ebay, Bank of America, etc.

One of our property management Broker customers just let us know that he is receiving about 30 SPAM emails per hour.  Up until the last few days he received very few of these nuisances.  To help him reduce this we're tightening up his SPAM filters a couple of notches and eliminating his "catch all" email capabilities.  This increases the chance that he may miss a legitimate business related message but he is willing to accept that risk.  It is a shame that we have to resort to extreme measures just so he can better manage his business.