unwanted emails

Sunshine_and_Roses

I have recently been getting lots of emails, mainly financial ones and ppi claims. I usually just delete them, but is there a way of not receiving any more without changing my email address?? Don't know if it's safe to reply 'stop' to them, have heard stories of this generating more emails as they know this is an active address.

Any advice would be great, thanks.

McKneff

look along the top tabs, if you can see one that comes up with 'block all' or 'sweep' that should stop the ones you have already received from sending any more, just keep doing that on any new ones.

I usually do a 'sweep' every few days.

macman

Use your spam filter?
Using 'Unsubscribe' in the header reply will stop 'genuine' ones, but it won't stop bot-generated spam, as it'll just bounce back as undeliverable.

forgotmyname

Unsubscribe on spam emails will just tell them its a live account worth bumping upto to the next more valuable list of email addresses.

What ISP or email client do you use?

Maybe options there to only allow certain email addresses?

I use several i still have an AOL account. Everyone used to laugh but it worked.
You could block all external email. Or block certain addresses or domains or allow them one at a time. Very flexible.

Any of them have your name? When signing upto forums i used to make fake names. Sometimes helped track down where the source of the spam came from.

Mr Clint Eastwood do you need a bigger.... I know the email originated from this website

Mr_Toad

You need to use a combination of spam filter and rules. I get emails from companies that I deal with so don't want to mark them all as spam so I set up rules to deal with those.

Amazon are a good example. I buy stuff from them so not spam but every time I sear h on Amazon for anything they email me with offers on the stuff I've looked at. Very irritating but I have a rule to delete them.

I now rarely see emails I don't want to and I've had the same email address for years.

TomWatson

Talk to your host company a lot of them can filter spam emails before it reaches you

Sunshine_and_Roses

Thanks everyone.

The accounts are only hotmail ones. I'm not very technically minded but will start looking for spam filters. I get all emails through on my phone, and it took me long enough to work out how to turn the alert sound off!!

Juxxize

Take a look at this info on how to report spam, i hate spam .
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-report-spam.htm

aerostar

Unfortunately you do not state whether it is on phone or PC.

If PC and windows then download the free version of mailwasher.

You can then pre-filter e-mails AND bounce them back, which gives the impression that your e-mail address is incorrect.

John_Gray

clareski wrote: »

... is there a way of not receiving any more without changing my email address??

The simplest answer that would involve you in the minimum amount of work, and would be the most reliable, is No. You would have to set up a new email address and tell everyone who has your old email address about the new one.

And that would only work for a certain amount of time until the spammers find out about the new email address, and then you'd have to change it again, and so on.

Any spam-trapping mechanism will inevitably suffer from false positives and false negatives, and will require you to check through lists of emails so you can verify that they are spam, or are ones you actually want. Depending on the success of the spam-determination algorithms you will have a shorter or a longer list.

macman

I use GMail and would say that the spam filtering is about 99% reliable. At first I used to regularly check the spam folder to make sure nothing had been misdirected, now I never bother.