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cjames_3

How do stop getting scam emails through your email account?

I never open them but it's getting really annoying!

Thank you!

MoneySavingUser

change your email account

samjef11_2

Set your spam filter to send the junk emails to the spam or block them.

taz121

If your smart with your email address you should never recieve any

Always have 2 email addresses one for personal mail and the other for forums/facebook/purchases/ebay etc etc that way you will never get junk to your main account

Never reply to an email as that confirms it exists

Never 'unsubscribe' to a junk email,newsletters should be fine

Never post your email address anywhere public on the internet

Always tick/untick the box thats says you don't want updates etc

Bosie

I get spam email saying it's from HSBC which is odd as I don't have a current account with them.
Also, the email address is sent to is an address that can't be deleted! It's the rule of the ISP I'm with, they do go into my spam but I always check spam box. Occasionally I get email that is needed, this particular email address I never give to forums,facebook etc.

So a mystery how they have my email:o

Eco_Miser

taz121 wrote: »

If your smart with your email address you should never recieve any

Always have 2 email addresses one for personal mail and the other for forums/facebook/purchases/ebay etc etc that way you will never get junk to your main account

If only! I've had spam to a just created account that was known only to myself and the ISP.

I'd say have at least three addresses, one for friends, one for banks and other important stuff, and one fore facebook and social sites.

See if your mail provider accepts addresses like economiser+mse@example.com which would go to the economiser@example.com mailbox (if it existed), with the plus sign separating the real user-name from the tag which helps identify where the sender got the address from.
If so, whenever you sign up to anything, include a different +tag as part of the address, and be extra suspicious of any mails without a tag. You can also use the tags for sorting your mail.

Bosie wrote: »

I get spam email saying it's from HSBC which is odd as I don't have a current account with them.

So a mystery how they have my email:o

They send out millions of mails, some of the recipients will have HSBC accounts, the spammers aren't interested in the rest, but it costs them nothing.

They probably don't have your email, they just made it up.

Spammers and phishers have lists of common, and not so common, names, and lists of ISPs providing mail services, and just send out millions of spam mails by combining the two.

Bosie

Eco miser interesting stuff, there's a lot of desperate people out there just wanting to steal from us:mad:

ffacoffipawb

Bosie wrote: »

Eco miser interesting stuff, there's a lot of desperate people out there just wanting to steal from us:mad:

I know. We voted most of them out on May 6th.

scott_lithgows

ffacoffipawb wrote: »

I know. We voted most of them out on May 6th.

and voted some new ones in.

Bosie

scott_lithgows wrote: »

and voted some new ones in.

Yes very true:D

DCFC79

This would be better off in the techie forum