Getting spammed left right and centre!!!

James240

aarrrrgggghhhh some one help me please lol

as much as i find this funny my yahoo email address is getting between 10-30 emails a day promoting !!!!!! sites/very dodgy !!!!!! sites. I have no idea how they have got hold of my email address but it seems to be from the same site cos althoiugh the email address's are different the mis-spellings int he emails to get round filters are practicly the same.

Is there anything i can do to stop this?

many thanks for any advice :beer:

James

p.s. forgot to add that im using outlook express as my email software

nickj_2

try mailwasher , you can set up friend or foe / allow or block

alanrowell

DON'T UNSUBSCRIBE - they'll know it's an active address & sell your details on and STILL send you spam.

Go into the web version of Yahoo Mail, log on, go to your inbox, click on <options> then <spam protection> & turn spamguard on. Then decide which of the other options you want.

The bulk mail will then be sent to a bulk folder which won't be downloaded to OE.

James240

alanrowell wrote:

DON'T UNSUBSCRIBE - they'll know it's an active address & sell your details on and STILL send you spam.

Go into the web version of Yahoo Mail, log on, go to your inbox, click on <options> then <spam protection> & turn spamguard on. Then decide which of the other options you want.

The bulk mail will then be sent to a bulk folder which won't be downloaded to OE.

many thanks alanrowell and thanks to everyone else who has offered advice, will try what u have advised alanrowell and see if this makes a difference :beer:

James240

ok peeps the spam guard is on but its still getting through any other ideas?

gcn504

One thing I can tell you is that if you register with Ebay - they sell your email address. This is based on my missus registering with Ebay and supplying a new email account that we'd just got.

She now gets hundreds of spam emails and I know for a fact that that is the only site she;s given that email address to: I have her use a freeserve web mail acc for all other internet stuff but she typed in the new one by accident.

Beware Ebay!

superscaper

gcn504 wrote:

One thing I can tell you is that if you register with Ebay - they sell your email address. This is based on my missus registering with Ebay and supplying a new email account that we'd just got.

She now gets hundreds of spam emails and I know for a fact that that is the only site she;s given that email address to: I have her use a freeserve web mail acc for all other internet stuff but she typed in the new one by accident.

Beware Ebay!

Don't think that's true, it's illegal for them to do for one and I've used my ebay registered email address for years now and not had a single (not even one!) spam email to it. Maybe the address was given to spammers by someone your wife has transacted with. If it's a generic email address such as yahoo, hotmail, gmail etc then you'll get spam to those even if you NEVER use the address. Is it a generic email address or is it a unique one of a domain you own?

esuhl

gcn504 wrote:

One thing I can tell you is that if you register with Ebay - they sell your email address.

I don't think that's true either - I once opened a new Hotmail account, and received a spam message before I had given ANYONE the address.

Having tried a few anti-spam programs and found most of them to be absolutely useless I came across Spambayes, which is excellent. It works with any IMAP email account, and has an additional plugin for Outlook making it even easier to use.

http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/

When you want to receive a single email (like when you register for something and have to click on a link in the email to confirm your email address is valid), you can use Spamgourmet to create a "disposable" email address that will only work once (or any other number of times) and will pass the email on to your normal email account, but subsequently block any email you receive.

http://www.spamgourmet.com/

lee634

sorry to jump in on somone elses post but this has just started happening to me as well, its me own domain name e-mail address,
it started just over a week ago, but i also get a similar amount of spam daily,

am using my domain hosts spam guard with filters most but the last few days a few have still been getting through

sdj25

Before I switched over to a gMail/Mail.app (apple) setup, I used to use thunderbird. They had great ways of identifying the spam that got through my server spam blocker. I would still have to download them - but 85%+ of my spam was flagged and sent to the junk folder straight away. After marking myself what was spam & what wasn't, then it was more like 95%+.

Check it out

letsbehonest

Mailwasher works very well, it will allow you to check your email before you download it therefor you can edit out the crap, I,m afraid it wont stop the pondlife sending the mail. I have a number of email addresses one is used only for friends and family the others for all online work. I have found over the years this is the only way to go, as soon as the crap starts to get to regular on one account I change to a new one, (Spammers should face capital punishment and then executed painfully)