Unwanted Emails

Janie_D

Having applied for some freebies, I now find I am being bombarded by emails regarding IPhones, Get Cash in 24 Hours, Tesco/John Lewis Vouchers from different email addresses and websites but all with the name J Willard, 2201 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90017. I received 87 emails in just 1 day. There is no 'unsubscribe' address so please is there anybody out there who can help me stop these unwanted emails. I have marked them all as Spam but would prefer not to receive them at all. Help, please. Janie D

espresso

You probably can't stop them! Do not click on any unsubscribe links, as that just proves that you have received them and that the email address is valid. Use a separate email account for freebies etc. and learn from your mistake.

Lyrrad

I use Mailwasher Pro

It still means you have to choose not to receive but it will recognise repeated emails and eventually make the choice for you.

It just means emails never reach Outlook at all.

How does MailWasher Pro work?
MailWasher Pro works directly with your email server, exactly like your email program does. But there is one important difference; you can tell MailWasher Pro to delete a message at the server, without downloading it - or you can bounce an email back to the sender so that it looks as though your address is not valid.
MailWasher Pro retrieves information about all the email on the server. With that information you can decide what to do with each individual email - download, delete, report or bounce it back.
When you check your accounts with MailWasher Pro first, you can delete or bounce the email you do not want. Then, when you use your email program, it downloads only the remaining emails, those that you want to read.
MailWasher Pro can be thought of as a "first line of defense" which can weed out junk, large wasteful attachments, and potentially harmful viruses.



One word of warning, if you are trigger happy you can delete wanted emails and although you can retrieve them it is not always possible to do so in a 100% fashion.


http://www.firetrust.com/products/mailwasher-pro

mdean

Use Thunderbird as your mail client - train it to recognise junk. By default it does not load images so the spammers feedback loop does not work

Set up a filter to move marketing emails to a folder

superscaper

espresso's advice in the long term is the most effective. You can't beat not getting the junk mail in the first place. And that requires managment of your email address/es and who you give your address out to and which address you give them. I used to get loads of junk through to my one address (even when I used to use Thunderbird), but now I'm careful with my addresses and I get zero spam to the email addresses I use with no spam filters at all. Has definitely been worth it for me.

Swerve

superscaper wrote: »

espresso's advice in the long term is the most effective. You can't beat not getting the junk mail in the first place. And that requires managment of your email address/es and who you give your address out to and which address you give them. I used to get loads of junk through to my one address (even when I used to use Thunderbird), but now I'm careful with my addresses and I get zero spam to the email addresses I use with no spam filters at all. Has definitely been worth it for me.

Agree fully. You can get temporary email addresses also.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=temporary+email+address&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

D.K.

I use Thunderbird and no spam...Until my son registered with MSN and it used my address as default now I get tons... mainly from people who are very concerned about my anatomy.

D.

liames

Janie D

I am getting the same emails as you are. I have had fifty or so a day for the last few days.