How do I stop spam e-mails?
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coreydevillier
I put my main e-mail address into one website (I usually use a junk e-mail address for this) and now I am getting spam after spam trying to get me to sign up for credit cards, debt reduction services and the like. I have followed the unsubscribe link located in each one for over a month but they still keep coming. It seems like they come from a different company each time. I like my e-mail address because it is my first and last name and is simple and easy to remember and irreplacable. Furthermore, these e-mails are going straight to my Blackberry which is the most annoying part of this situation. How do I stop this?
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I put my main e-mail address into one website (I usually use a junk e-mail address for this) and now I am getting spam after spam trying to get me to sign up for credit cards, debt reduction services and the like. I have followed the unsubscribe link located in each one for over a month but they still keep coming. It seems like they come from a different company each time. I like my e-mail address because it is my first and last name and is simple and easy to remember and irreplacable. Furthermore, these e-mails are going straight to my Blackberry which is the most annoying part of this situation. How do I stop this?
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April 19th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
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Whenever you get such a spam mail, do NOT unsubscribe to any of their services by using their links! Spam mails are sent randomly, by using an unsubscribe link you only confirm to those spammers that they hit a valid mail account and you’ll be getting even more spam in the future! Now about fighting spam…
#1: Yahoo has a spamguard filter, but only if multiple users report an address as spam will it be treated as such by the filter.
You have a personal list for blocking addresses in spam options. Anything you mark as spam in Mail classic will be added to that list, in New Yahoo mail adding addresses to the list has to be done manually. If you ever receive anything from those addresses in the future, it will be deleted automatically, you won’t even notice when you got some more crap from them. One problem though: the list of blocked addresses is limited to 500 and spammers often change their address. So you must sometimes delete some of the older blocked addresses to make room for new ones.
Go to this link where everything is explained in detail:
#2: The Federal Trade Commission (www.ftc.gov) is supposed to help you eliminate spam mails. Forward spam to:, in the subject line enter something like “unsubscribe link results in more spam”, “unwanted spam message”, “no unsubscribe link” or something similar.
When the FTC gets your mail, they will look into the matter and when they find out who the spamming source is, they will take legal actions.
#3: Check Iconix, once it is installed, it can easily identify whether a mail is Spam or comes from a trusted site, thus helping you to decide whether to open a mail or not. Mail services supported so far:
Yahoo!Mail
AT&T Yahoo! Mail
Gmail
Earthlink
AOL Webmail
MSN Hotmail
Windows Live Hotmail
Outlook 2003
Outlook Express 6.0
AIM Webmail
Not supported are other mail services and also not MAC and Linux.
#4: Check Mailwasher, it helps to eliminate spam from your inbox…
Set up your email account(s) in MailWasher and hit the “Check Mail” button. It then downloads all new message headers and displays message details alongside each one (priority, subject, from, to, etc.). Any email that MailWasher considers to be spam is highlighted for easy sorting.
Two checkboxes are located next to each message header: “Delete” and “Bounce”. If you click “Delete” the email will be marked for deletion, click “Bounce” and the mail will be marked for bouncing - a fake “address not found” email will be sent to the sender. Once you have decided what to bounce and delete, click “Process Mail” to get it done and your mail client launched for downloading all accepted emails.
MailWasher has a “blacklist” and a “friends list” to enter good and bad email addresses. Addresses in the blacklist are marked for deletion, and addresses in the friends list will be marked as okay. Filters can be set to increase MailWasher’s effectiveness. You can have email addressed to “undisclosed recipients” automatically deleted and bounced for example.
Note: the program is free but limited to one email account, and doesn’t include Hotmail support. MW Pro supports multiple mail accounts.
April 22nd, 2009 at 11:57 am
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