Viagra Spam

Paul_Varjak

I was getting up to 75 viagra spam messages a day until this week but this is now exceeding 300 per day.

Is there any way of filtering these out and automatically deleting them in GMail? I don't want them in my spam box or in my deleted folder. I just want them deleted, full stop!

santer_2

See if mailwasher free helps

http://www.mailwasher.net/

Check your mail via mailwasher, it has its own list of blocked sites, so most of those will go, it can be set to check at intervals

You need to check any friends are not listed as spam, add them to your friends list as those arrive

Yolina

Just out of interest, why don't you want them to go to the spam folder? That's what its there for and Gmail will automatically delete anything in there older than 30 days (same for the Bin folder). I never look through the spam folder as I've always found the Gmail automatic spam filter to be quite good.

You might want to consider a change of email address if you're getting that much spam every day though (and use totally separate ones for things like forums or competitions)

Bollotom

That's a bit of a hard one.
I filter the actual word, though you have to allow for variations, so viagra, viagara, vigara etc. They use variations of web addys too so sometimes it is better to use the word filter.

Paul_Varjak

Yolina wrote: »

Just out of interest, why don't you want them to go to the spam folder?

Mainly because I do get valid emails going to the spam folder and it gets more difficult to find them among 300 Viagra spam!

Yolina wrote: »

You might want to consider a change of email address if you're getting that much spam every day though (and use totally separate ones for things like forums or competitions)

Yes I had considered that but changing email addresses is a much bigger task that changing a bank account!

santer_2

You may want to get one which is only used for filling in online competitions, insurance comparison sites etc

Yolina

Paul_Varjak wrote: »

Mainly because I do get valid emails going to the spam folder and it gets more difficult to find them among 300 Viagra spam!

Fair enough. I've never had stuff ending up in the spam folder that shouldn't have so I stopped looking through it eons ago!

I had considered that but changing email addresses is a much bigger task that changing a bank account!

Yes it's a PITA, but possibly worth it. Just create your new address(es) and slowly update things as and when, you don't have to do it all in one go.

RussJK

I'm with Fastmail.fm - sure it's a paid account, but the spam filtering includes the option for silent blocking of 100% certain spam, and lets you make throwaway email accounts for websites you don't trust.

In years of being with it though, I've not had to abandon my 'spam' email yet as the spam filtering presumably has been effective.

Spank

Have you thought that maybe your other half is trying to tell you something?:rotfl:

Paul_Varjak

Spank wrote: »

Have you thought that maybe your other half is trying to tell you something?:rotfl:

I have not seen her in 1 year and 10 months, so I doubt Viagra will be needed come Xmas time

vuvuzela

Why not create a filter and set it to auto-delete them ? I appreciate that a lot will be mis-spelled but if it catches some then it's worth it.