can i block an email address?

cherub1965

danthemoneysavingman wrote: »

It certainly is against their policy, but that won't stop them sending spam.
You can contact the email address owner and report them, their account may then be blocked for generating spam and sending 'malicious' emails - worth a try if you can be bothered...

i have emailed ebay yesterday, they are 'looking into it' but i wont hold my breathe while i wait. have just been reporting it as spam so i dont get bit inm my inbox.
can you get a virus by opening an email?

harvestfestival

You'd probably do better complaining to Yahoo - it can lead to account termination. Look up 'Report SPAM or Phishing' on Yahoo's website.

In extreme cases, and I've done this myself, you can get the local Police involved because you have these laws on your side:

The Protection from Harassment Act 1997
The Telecommunications Act 1984 (section 42/43)
Malicious Communications Act 1988
The Communications Act (Section 127)

Naturally, you'd have to feel harassed or offended by the ongoing mail. I certainly did when I could not stop a music retailer from eBay spamming me. The Police gave the owner a £60 fixed penalty and made them sign an agreement not to harass me any more.

It's a bit extreme, but if you can't get it stopped it is worth considering.

cherub1965

gb12345 wrote: »

To have the messages go straight to the bin without hitting your in box or spam folders do the following:

View a message from the sender and click on the down arrow that is next to the reply button.

This will bring up a menu and one of the options will be "Filter messages like this". Select that option.

You will then get a window pop-up, which should have the offending email address in the "From" field. Click on the "Create filter with this search »" link in the bottom right and it will move to the next page.

Tick the "Delete it" check box and then press the "Create filter" button and from then on all emails from that address will go straight to the bin

thanks for your help, its worked hopefully. all the messages were deleted when i did this. arent you clever

missile

:T Nice to read a thread with a happy outcome :T

Mr_Toad

cherub1965 wrote: »

good thinking batman, have just done that. what does somebody get out of stuff like that? wierdos....:o

Oddly enough it might be making them money.

While spam is irritating to us all it is actually cost effective. She only needs one or two people to buy outside of eBay and she saves on fees in addition to any profit.

An email costs nothing and spamers running illegal botnets charge very little to send out millions of emails.

I read a paper on spam in a scientific journal and the figures are scary. A small part of a botnet was monitored and in the one month the part they were monitoring sent over 350 million emails that resulted in just over 20 actual sales, a conversion rate of 0.00001%, of a sexual performance drug (Viagra) at $100 per sale so $2800 in the month. When the final size of that particular botnet was taken into account it is estimated that the true earnings were in the region of $9000 per month.

I do some consultancy for a major ISP and spam is a huge problem for everyone except the spammers.