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How can I block e mails from "Fifth Third Bank"

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For the last few weeks I have receievd an e mail EVERYDAY from "Fifth Third Bank"

It provides a link (which I never click on!) asking to confirm my details. I know its spam/junk and yet my filter is not stopping it. Can I block e mails from a specific sender?

Thanks in advance
MTC NMP Membership #62 - made it back to size 12 after my children & I'm staying here!

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  • Rob_K
    Rob_K Posts: 126 Forumite
    do you receive your email online, or is it downloaded into an email client like Outlook? If it's the latter, what spam filter are you using?

    You should be able to block it, but a little more information is required :)
  • sounds like you need to tweak your spam filter a touch.

    what do you use ?
  • apples1
    apples1 Posts: 1,180 Forumite
    It comes into Outlook. My husband set up the filter so not sure what we have running. It seems to be a good filter as when I do "send & receive" quite often e mails pop up for a split second in my inbox then go again so I can see it's filtering out most.

    At the end of all my mails it says.....

    No virus found in this incoming message.
    Checked by AVG Free Edition.
    Version: 7.5.441 / Virus Database: 268.17.39/685 - Release Date: 13/02/2007 22:01


    Does this help? If not I will ask him to have a look. When I asked him the other day he said he didn't know what to do to stop them. If the above info is not enough I'll find out tonight from him what we have running and post back with that info and for more help!
    MTC NMP Membership #62 - made it back to size 12 after my children & I'm staying here!
  • You could try Thunderbird - its very similar in functionality to Outlook Express , but has a better ( trainable ) spam filter. It sounds like yours needs some more training.
  • richt71
    richt71 Posts: 946 Forumite
    There's a number of spam software you can get that will check for key words that are usually spam. However in outlook it's more difficult as spammers use different email addresses (fake ones) to send each email.
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