said by mouse :

I have been swamped by these cards over the last 3 weeks and it does not seem to ease. What surprises me is that almost simultaneously a number of my email addresses that never had any spam have received these and continue to receive them. This must be an outbreak of much higher proportions than what we saw before, otherwise I don't understand why all of a sudden I actually feel bothered.
In the past I received the odd spam, easily handled by a spam program and some caution as the spam email would stick out like the proverbial thumb. Now I receive more spam than real emails and it does not just affect one address.