Quote - I am continuing to get the needed responses to the questions I asked and compiling those for the programmers. With the site redesign everyone has been pretty tied up with that for awhile.  We are taking this seriously and have been doing research and testing for months now to try and pin down the issue.

What just beats the heck out of me though is, I set up I know 10 different email accounts with different providers and have yet to receive the first spam to any of them..I only put them in my profile here on my test accounts, made sure to get ebots for a few forums, fav artists, fav vendors, newsletter (each one I did a little different so maybe if one of them actually received any spam it would help narrow down the problem) and then just let them sit. I didn't send anything from those accounts and its been over two months and I've yet to see anything unusual..just the ebots that I asked for.  
I do receive spam on my personal accounts that I actually use on a daily basis. But all those, I'm sending mail from, receiving lots of mail, use on different sites, etc..so I expect spam on those but these other 10, nothing???

Anyhoo, hopefully we can get some results soon:)

 

Thanks for your respose Stacey.  And thank you for taking our concerns seriously.  I know this is a tough problem overall.

I've had another thought on this.
Do merchants have access to people's addys?
I know I've received updates notifications by email and notifications of gifts from merchants by email.

If their systems are flawed in some way then it could create a vulnerability for our email addys.
This could account for some receiving spam and some not.