Junk Emails

Send them to your spam folder. Let them sit for a few hours and then delete. I have an AT&T email as well. I always check the email through the online portal first. I clean out any new spam and delete stuff I may not be interested in. Then I open my email client and allow what I want to keep to come down to my computer. Then I delete the emails in the online account and empty the trash. Eventually the spam crap will slow down to almost nothing.

ignore them and delete

I have a bellsouth email account and noticed at the start of June a huge increase in the amount of spam I received daily. McAfee, Norton, WalMart, Camp Lejeune, Bed Bath and Beyond, Home Depot, etc. All are phishing emails designed to get you to put in your account details or credit card information. Like you I got pissed and started looking around. I work in the InfoSec world and long story short, found out that AT&T's data was taken from 'somewhere' in early June. Of course AT&T is claiming it wasn't them, but who knows right now. Last week an article came out describing some of what they have of our data. Email addresses, SSNs, etc. Here is a link to the article: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/08/it-might-be-our-data-but-its-not-our-breach/

I have moved everything that I used that email account for to another email account. It has helped my phone not sound like a pinball machine all day long.

As to what you can do about your SSN being stolen, the guy who wrote the article above also has a really good article on how you can freeze your credit. It is not a lock, which is usually a paid for service, but a credit freeze that he explains better than I ever could:

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A security freeze essentially blocks any potential creditors from being able to view or “pull” your credit file, unless you affirmatively unfreeze or thaw your file beforehand. With a freeze in place on your credit file, ID thieves can apply for credit in your name all they want, but they will not succeed in getting new lines of credit in your name because few if any creditors will extend that credit without first being able to gauge how risky it is to loan to you (i.e., view your credit file).

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Don't let these scummy credit reporting agencies sell you some bullshite credit lock thing. A credit freeze is now free across the US.

That link is here:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/09/credit-freezes-are-free-let-the-ice-age-begin/

My wife and I have used it for years without anyone getting any line of credit in our name opened. It can be a pain when you want to open a line of credit or get a new car, but as long as you 'unfreeze' it a day or two ahead of time you should be fine. You need to do a little leg work ahead of time and find out who your place is going to pull their credit info from. It isn't hard, and I have done it 2x now when getting a vehicle. The first time I waited until five minutes before I had them run the credit and ended up waiting an hour or so for it to go through. The second time I did it the day before and it worked fine.

Good luck to you, and I hope at least some of this helps.