Spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam livejournal and spam

I have been getting a huge amount of spam via my LJ email address lately. What might have been a trickle of a couple per week that started two or three years ago has in the past months blossomed into several a day. It's no surprise though, despite LJ's feeble attempts to mask the LJ-based email address shown in profile pages, it's no big deal for a spammer to harvest usernames and append "@livejournal.com" to them. Poof, instant honeypot of victims.

What a more perfect way to gather LJ user names (and more) than to set up a site offering quizzes and memes?

Also, I have been targeted for a bunch of 'gay' spam pointing to various jock and leather sites. Those I often get in groups of two or three identical emails, the only difference being the gibberish used to foil spam filtering.

Spammers are useless people. If I had my way, I'd have them drawn and quartered.

Anyone else being similarly hit by this crap?