Stopping Spam emails help please

burbs_2

Hi

Im having a problem with 1 of my email accounts. Basically i keep getting a load of spam, only recently though. I use the email address as 1 of my business addresses and so have probably given it to the wrong person who in turn has sent it off or whatever.

I have tried to stop them getting through but they always come from a different person, different email address and witht he title changed slightly so you cannot block them. E.G. the last 2 have been for v!agra and vlagra.

The emails are exactly the same set up, some website and below it a little sentence about something random or a poem. They are mad and i receive about 10 a day now. How can i stop them or can i not?

Thanks in advance

inmypocketnottheirs

Try https://www.mailwasher.net for an excellent FREE anti spam solution.

esuhl

If you use Outlook, try Spambayes: http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/

It also works with any POP3 or IMAP email account... though I haven't quite figured out how yet!

tobyosbourn

I have used http://keir.net/k9.html before and found it useful.

However now that I use Mozilla Thunderbird as my email client I have no need for it as the spam mover on it is pretty sufficient.

Mado

Actually I have been inundated with returned emails (that I have of course never sent).
As these seem to genuinely come from daemon or postmaster the spam filter doesn't stop them.
Any ideas?

caspol

Hi, I had the same problem recently and all the returned mails looked like they came from my personal ISP address. I got on to my ISP and they said it was likely someone was spoofing my mail address by putting anything before the @myemail.org address. They also said that this was only possible if i had a 'catch-all' email address enabled, which I had, once i disabled this these spoof emails stopped coming. Hope this helps

weeboo

I am having the same problem, How did you disable the 'catch all' email address? I have had the same address for years spam free. I have recently changed broadband provider and wondered if this was the cause. It did start off by receiving stock emails, but it has now progressed to the above.

superscaper

weeboo wrote:

I am having the same problem, How did you disable the 'catch all' email address? I have had the same address for years spam free. I have recently changed broadband provider and wondered if this was the cause. It did start off by receiving stock emails, but it has now progressed to the above.

I think what Caspol meant was he was receiving all email to every possible address at his domain name, it isn't relevant if you only have a single email address and don't own the domain. I get the same thing and they typiclly send the spam to sales@ accounting@ webmaster@ mydomain.co.uk etc. So far no spam to the specific email addresses I've registered with people.

Quasar

Unfortunately it seems impossible to block this stuff because it comes through with no sender's email address.

I have tried to ste up message rules in OE to include a phrase which recurs often in the body of one of the worst culprits, in the hope to filter at least some of this spam, but to no avail.

jujitsu

i am getting it also all very strange

Me_Myself_2

I have my own domain name with Demon (e.g.John@mydomainname.demon.co.uk or Jane@mydomainname.demon.co.uk) and have been getting dozens of spam e-mails. They are usually something like this: dsasd@mydomainname.demon.co.uk
I have now been able to restrict my e-mails to only those I've authorised. i.e. John or Jane @......
Brilliant...........