Junk Emails and how to stop them??

royP_2

I usually delete my junk emails once a week usually about 100/200.
This week I decided to block all the senders [I uses Outlook].
Since doing that I now receive over 200 junk emails a day, a huge increase.
Is there anyway to stop this?
Thanks.

Neil_Jones

Change email address and don't give it out to anybody ever.

Or set your junk filter up properly - make use of "Safe Senders". and "Safe Mailing Lists", then everything else will go into the junk.

Its pointless blocking the senders, you'd do better to mark what's safe and let everything else be junked.  Just check Junk Mail on occasion for a genuine one.

outtatune

Switch to Thunderbird, you'll probably not even see the junk you get.

Thrugelmir

Unsubscribe from as much as you can. Use different email addressess to filter important from unimportant mail. 

laurajones81

I found that unsubscribing from every spam email you get helps. It takes time but if you do a little bit each day it starts to slow down a lot.

Of course you could switch your email, but that might come with other PITA to deal with!

giraffe69

Unsubscribing will probably work with respectable firms but occasionally the unsubscribe button is ignored or used to confirm an active email address. I think good steps are
1. to have an email provider decent at preventing most spam. Gmail falls into that category IMO.
2. Sending obvious junk not captured by the system to the junk folder. It usually prevents a repeat.
3. If it is a firm you know and perhaps invited to send you mail then unsubscribe but not otherwise.
The trouble with the nasty ones is that rather like those who do spam phone calls they use endless different and probably spoofed addresses.

eamon

I've noticed a spike in junk/spam mail the last 2 months. Norton & Mcafee fakes being the most prolific. I use Outlook and they are probably blocking thousands that I never see. My junk folder empties itself frequently and afaik Microsoft will also work on those. A few years ago I asked work IT approx how many they block and it was in the order of many thousands daily.

Sandtree

It depends to some degree what sort of "junk" you are referring to... marketing emails from legitimate companies where you've signed up to their mailing list or the ones offering to give you an extra 4" 

Legitimate companies will process the unsubscribe button but it may take a little while for them to do so... these things are queued up weeks if not months in advance. 

Companies offering little blue pills or saying you've won the Nigerian Lottery are going to use the unsubscribe link to confirm your email address is a monitored account and so shouldn't be clicked. 

Bigphil1474

OP, best bet is to have 2 emails. I have a yahoo which gets loads of junk, and my gmail gets none. I only gave out my gmail address to friends/family and my bank. As others have said, only worth unsubscribing with companies you recognise and expect to get email from - the chancers will use the unsubscribe to confirm an active email address and probably sell it on to other companies, meaning more junk.

fenlander_uk

Gmail has an excellent set of spam filters. I have an account on my own domain that gets around 12-20 junk emails daily, about half of which it detects and discards. I also use a Gmail account to collect the mail from the private address and I can't remember the last time a spam got past Gmail's filters.