Have you been getting heaps of .ru and .sa spam?

A few weeks ago, I received one spam email saying something like “Get paid to write social media content.” I noted the .ru (Russia) sender address and sent it straight to trash.

The number of similar incoming mounted over the next few days, all similar subject lines. I created a filter to trash them. Shortly after that, I started getting the same crop of messages from .sa (Saudi Arabia) senders. It appeared that spammers in both places of origin were sharing content.

This bothered me unreasonably more than spam from either source alone would have done.

The number of incoming .ru and .sa spam is increasing by the day. Maybe it’s my imagination, but I think my computer is also running slower.

Is anything like this happening to you?