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by fxtentacle 1210 days ago
Fully agree. A company I work with used to receive about 1 SPAM message per hour. They kind of outcrowded any actual customer request in the INBOX. And to me, most of them looked like they were hand-written by people with English as a 2nd language. We tried a lot of CAPTCH providers and similar things, but that didn't help. It wasn't automated robot SPAM.

What did move the needle, in the end, was blocking all IPs from India. A bit heavy-handed, maybe, but it was a small company with only local customers anyway.