how do I stop junk e mail?

pacman_2

Can anyone help?

I'm getting about 4 mails a day from young ladies in Africa who want to be friends with me and also a couple on how I can help them get $XXXm out of their war ravaged country. How can I stop them? they are irritating. Where did they get my e mail address? Thanks for your help.

Jeff_Bridges_hair

if its the same email address or portions of it then add it to your spam address list.

unfortunately spam is hard to stop once they have your addy so try setting up a new one.

boxst

Only four ... count yourself lucky

A more useful reply: It depends on your email program. Outlook does a reasonably job of filtering as does Yahoo and Google. Apart from the filtering in your email client there is absolutely nothing you can do about it I'm afraid.

googler

Ignore them, and they'll maybe stop.

Get a new e-mail address.

santer_2

If you want to check one e-mail address, try mailwasher free, which does not stop spam arriving but filters it out

http://www.mailwasher.net/

Check you mail via that, it has a built in block list which you can add to or remove from, sometimes bona fide mail gets blocked. It gives you a screen with all the mail, it ticks the blocked ones, you can tick any others there, then click process and it only downloads the approved ones

Keep an eye on it until all your friends and approved senders are in your friends list

Dave_C_2

pacman wrote: »

Can anyone help?
I'm getting about 4 mails a day from young ladies in Africa who want to be friends with me and also a couple on how I can help them get $XXXm out of their war ravaged country. How can I stop them? they are irritating. Where did they get my e mail address? Thanks for your help.

First, Do Not ever reply to any junk email (spam). All this does is confirm that the email address is a real one and the spam will increase. A common trick is to add an "unsubscribe" link which does nothing of the sort.

Second, spammers have perfected the trick of sending out emails to all possible variants of your name. Email spam is effectively free so it is possible to do this. It is possible that they've just guessed your email address.

Third, what do you use for email? Some email providers have nice spam filters in place, if let us know someone can advise further.

Fourth, too late now but it's a good idea to use disposable email addresses.

Dave

Hammyman

pacman wrote: »

I'm getting about 4 mails a day from young ladies in Africa who want to be friends with me and also a couple on how I can help them get $XXXm out of their war ravaged country. How can I stop them?

Close the account. It is the only way to stop SPAM.

Gillor

Virtually impossible to stop spam but with some email clients, such as Thunderbird, you can set up a whitelist so that only e-mails from those people in your address book get into your Inbox and everything else is directed to your Spam/Junk folder.

VSC

Set up several email accounts.
One for close friends and family,
One for dealing with any online accounts you have,
One for everything else.

Change the "everything else" one regularly.

Don't let yourself get wound up about the spam - it's just a fact of life at present.
I run an online business and get 100's a day!

Good luck!