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Carmen
Carmen Posts: 1,732 Forumite
Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
Hello Techies

Maybe I have been lucky not to have had any spam mail over the last four years? Until now :mad: In the last month I have been getting several a week in my junk mail, but one for Viagra ( NO, I have not visited any of sites related) keeps getting into my in box!! Strange thing is, where there is normally a option to 'mark as unsafe' I am not getting that so I can only delete it but, it keeps coming back Grrrr! I run all the relevant anti do da's but there it is again, sometimes twice a day!
Any helpful tips would be appreciated.
Thank you
Carmen x

Comments

  • there reallt isn't a lot you can do other than delete it.

    if you are running a mail client such as outlook maybe you can filter these mails out using a key word.

    however the people that send these mails tend to play about with spelling etc so it far from infallible.
    The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits
  • aliEnRIK
    aliEnRIK Posts: 17,741 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    I would suggest using GOOGLEMAIL
    They have an anti spam feature built in. And you would just need to tell everyone your new email address and change any accounts over (Like this one)
    The spam will just get worse over time
    :idea:
  • savemoney
    savemoney Posts: 18,125 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts
    These low life have programs that can create permutations of various email addys I find gmail has fairly good email filters I bounce this off to my ISP email addy who in turn I use mailwasher
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