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  • isitenough
    isitenough Posts: 5,593 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I've got plenty lately (and I mean plenty!) about asda vouchers - pain in the but! But that's all part of being on the net unfortunately.
    Thank you to everyone who posts comps! :A
    I would like to be lucky,healthy & happy in 2020! :T
  • I had those Asda vouchers ones, and if it is the same ones you are getting there was an unsubscribe link which worked.
  • LizB62
    LizB62 Posts: 5,073 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    I get about the same amount of spam on my non-comping email address as I do on the comping email - it could even be down to one of your friends having a virus/trojan horse on their pc which has sent all the emails from their address book to whoever set up the virus........
    Best win ever: Trip to the Galapagos Islands in 2010
  • madforIT
    madforIT Posts: 288 Forumite
    yes i got that email-that had every1 email addys at the top-think it was planet 49 or something-anyway google coffee cup free spam blocker-and get revenge,it has a revenge button,it bounces the spam emails back+what u do is copy the email addy+keep bouncing it back,i think 100 emails 1 after the other will put the spammers mail out of bussiness for a while,or just bounce them back once or twice and theyll eventually take you of there mail list,thinking your email is dead.
    Chelski wherever you may be
    it wont be wembley
  • DUKE
    DUKE Posts: 7,360 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker I've been Money Tipped!
    Oh I have all sorts of rubbishy emails and I delete a lot of them without even looking at them. If there's anything that I really don't like I click my phishing scam button. I can't see the point in having 2 emails as I find it difficult enough to keep up with one.
  • thatgirlsam
    thatgirlsam Posts: 10,451 Forumite
    i use my personal email too... i do get a bit of spam but i don't find it that annoying... its not the end of the world and doesnt take long to delete.. the prizes i have won make up for it! sam x
    £608.98
    £80
    £1288.99
    £85.90
    £154.98
  • elver_man
    elver_man Posts: 20,787 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I only enter about 40 comps a day and to-date have had very little spam apart from the Lottery ones. I do use a comp addy for all the well known sites and have a second one for sites which seem to good to be true and surveys. The spam i received was on my second comping addy.

    Entering all these comps i do expect to get a little spam and consider it a pain but a fact of giving the addy to so many companies.

    On my personal e mail i get very little spam and those that are sent get filtered very well by the BT and yahoo spam filter to the spam folder, todate nothing has got through to my inbox.
    Thoughts:

    The surest sign that there is intelligent life in the universe is that they haven't contacted us yet:D
    Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?
    Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others;) - Martin Luther King jr
  • kimmywal
    kimmywal Posts: 11,288 Forumite
    I get very little spam, thankfully. I get more at my work email addy and I dont use that for comps at all. ;)
    What we see depends mainly on what we look for

    "This will be mine in 2009" member 50
  • jacquie3167
    jacquie3167 Posts: 12,032 Forumite
    Just a warning to all of you who delete emails without reading them!!

    Many of my winning emails have been identified as "JUNK". Thankfully, I always check every email before I delete, otherwise I would probably not have received all the wins I was entitled to (as they do sometimes write for confirmation of your address).

    Many winning emails DO NOT even mention the words ' Congratulations, Winner or Competition' in the subject header, so......

    Please check your junk before deleting as you maybe throwing away a really good prize!
    Eleventh Heaven No. 321
    1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11
  • tiscali email is good for stopping spam or ie junk mail coz it is never working properly :confused:
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