Experienced the same thing with Verizon & Gmail. Purchased an account with Reagan.com and no longer
have any problems. Most "free" email accounts are open for easy hacking and they sell your info to vendors
for profit. My new account does "not" sell or monitor my account. Free to you means free to steal for others.
Yep, I still use Verizon even though they have tons of spam and they can't seem to fix my problem and they
don't want me to change my email address..............what does that tell you?
My Gmail account is free and I had to close my account and opened another one, since it was free. Solved
my Gmail spam problem. I go to the top of my search engine page and click on "tools" and delete my search
history everytime I get on the web. I believe it helps. Just my experience, just sharin'.