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Robin9
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I am receiving a series of Spam emails typically:-

Morrisons123@xxxxxxxx.eu

but also Argos, Tesco,

I have added Morrison etc to the Spam Blocker on AOL but still they come through.

Can anyone help ?
Never pay on an estimated bill. Always read and understand your bill

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  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
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    You need to find the message source via view message message source and block in your email client .
  • stormbreaker
    stormbreaker Posts: 2,289 Forumite
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    I get these all he time too! EDF, Amazon and numerous others. A few weeks ago I started unsubscribing from emails and I must have picked a scammer one then and they've realised it is an active account. I'm now inundated.
    An idiots guide to blocking these would be very helpful, if possible?
  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
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    Email client .
    Its help pages and you should see something like below for thunderbird ,

    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/blocking-sender
  • Robin9
    Robin9 Posts: 13,033 Forumite
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    Thankyou for the suggestion - I can block one email but next day it comes back with a slight variation = argos123 one day argos 124 the next
    Never pay on an estimated bill. Always read and understand your bill
  • debitcardmayhem
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    Robin9 wrote: »
    Thankyou for the suggestion - I can block one email but next day it comes back with a slight variation = argos123 one day argos 124 the next
    assuming you are using thunderbird it is easy, but if you are using aol webmail(via browser) then I would suggest using thunderbird or a similar web client. Mind you I wouldn't use aol anything
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  • debitcardmayhem
    debitcardmayhem Posts: 13,440 Forumite
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    stormbreaker wrote: »
    I get these all he time too! EDF, Amazon and numerous others. A few weeks ago I started unsubscribing from emails and I must have picked a scammer one then and they've realised it is an active account. I'm now inundated.
    An idiots guide to blocking these would be very helpful, if possible?
    It may be worth you starting your own thread?
    4.8kWp 12x400W Longhi 9.6 kWh battery Giv-hy 5.0 Inverter, WSW facing Essex . Aint no sunshine ☀️ Octopus gas fixed dec 24 @ 5.74 tracker again+ Octopus Intelligent Flux leccy

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  • stormbreaker
    stormbreaker Posts: 2,289 Forumite
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    debitcardmayhem wrote: »
    It may be worth you starting your own thread?

    Apologies, I thought my problem was very similar, if not the same.
  • debitcardmayhem
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    stormbreaker wrote: »
    Apologies, I thought my problem was very similar, if not the same.
    It may be , but you are asking
    An idiots guide to blocking these would be very helpful, if possible?
    Until the OP tells us what they are using it may not be relevant to you
    4.8kWp 12x400W Longhi 9.6 kWh battery Giv-hy 5.0 Inverter, WSW facing Essex . Aint no sunshine ☀️ Octopus gas fixed dec 24 @ 5.74 tracker again+ Octopus Intelligent Flux leccy

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  • Robin9
    Robin9 Posts: 13,033 Forumite
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    I am using Chrome with Aol.mail and Windows 10

    The last run of Spam I had was of the form Argos123@aaaaaaa.eu ; before it was Argos123@bbbbbb.eu

    I seem to have done some blocking OK using selected words eg "Argos" but there is a drawback in that it blocks real mail from Argos.
    Never pay on an estimated bill. Always read and understand your bill
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