my email is being spammed to !!!!!!y

dollop

my email is being spammed to !!!!!!y it has been aboslutely hammered today with crap about downloading chinese stuff,i know its off somewhere ive done a competition as thats all i use it for,now whats going to happen if i win and have deleted this emailaddy?i wouldnt delete it unless i had to but ive just had 30 emails in all the same crap,and im worried i may lose any prizes if anyone emails me at that adress and i dont answer back because i have deleted,has anyone got any advice please,and also be carefull everyone else as we never ever know when enetering these competitions where or if our details are being sold onto other people,many thanks in advance dollops xx

weaver

Id create another comp addy ( i.e hotmail) and use that - most comps run for a month or 2 in advance - so just check back once a week to see if you have won.

the rare ones that run longer you could re enter but with new addy - But I think Id forget it after october.

If its hotmail you can report the sender and have it blocked completly, I get odd ones from abroad but normally around start of the month and I just delete them, dont get many

Is there an unsubscribe at base of email ???

djl

me to i`ve blocked loads of stuff all crap about viagra and junk

kimmywal

I'm hotmail and I dont really get any rubbish at all

ferrarigirlie

ive had alot recently, ones with no messages just attachments, and others saying you have recieved an ecard from neighnour, friend, colleague etc

thankfully they all go to spam its still annoying though

josie301

I must be (touch wood) quite lucky then - I get very little spam.

But I do get quite a few newsletters etc, but they mostly have comps on so I don't mind those!! lol

I wouldn't even open the mails just delete them, and open a new account, then after a month or so close the one you have if it is still a problem for you.

dollop

ferrarigirlie wrote: »

ive had alot recently, ones with no messages just attachments, and others saying you have recieved an ecard from neighnour, friend, colleague etc

thankfully they all go to spam its still annoying though

yep had them to ferrarie its just these chinese ones that want downloading tonnes of em came in at same time lastnight

pipkin71

ferrarigirlie wrote: »

ive had alot recently, ones with no messages just attachments, and others saying you have recieved an ecard from neighnour, friend, colleague etc

thankfully they all go to spam its still annoying though

ferrarigirlie, a few people I know have opened the you have an ecard message and it's a virus which has managed to get through the av software.

If anyone does get an ecard message, just delete, delete, delete.

Pipkin xxxx

kipper_2-2

If its major spamming DON'T unsubscribe to the emails, that will then just tell the spammers the account is active and they will continue to send them.


Depending on what email account you use, you can sometimes block those addresses in the server, so they don't actually come through to your inbox


I use a hotmail and yahoo account for comps and very rarely get any spam, but like ferrarigirlie and others I've been getting tonnes of dodgy e-cards on my "official" email address and I rarely use that!

dollop

it just goes to show,we dont know where on earth some of our details are going,id just urge everyone to be very wary,id say about 99 precent of sites r fine but obviously someone is using this as a means to either sell on details or just completely spamming peoples emails,i am so so so glad i do not put all my true details on all these comps as anyone could use your name and adress and date of birth to rack up thousands of pounds worth of credit,so please be wary when filling in your details to certain sites.

black-saturn

kimmywal wrote: »

I'm hotmail and I dont really get any rubbish at all

I don't really get any either but my boyfriend is also on hotmail and he gets loads of it (and it's not the email he uses for comps either)