Want a spam/!!!!!!/smut free email account for my daughter!

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  • judyjetson
    judyjetson Posts: 1,116 Forumite
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    I've got a gmail account I use soley for emails and I've never had any spam on it. However, the one I use for freebies gets loads, including get a bigger organ (no thank you, the piano suits me fine), my long lost Nigerian relative has left me millions, lovely girls want to meet me and I must be the luckiest person in the world as I seem to win every lottery going. :rotfl: It all just goes into the spam folder.
  • splishsplash
    splishsplash Posts: 3,055 Forumite
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    I never get spam on my Yahoo email account - but I get on average 200 messages weekly ranging from how to enlarge various appendages to 'banking notices' on my other accounts.
    I've given my email address for all my online purchases, so I was expecting lots of junk, but so far, not a one. I've had my account for 3-4 years now.
    Hope that helps.
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  • Gingham_Ribbon
    Gingham_Ribbon Posts: 31,520 Forumite
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    I have been wondering the same thing and it REALLY annoys me that this is even a consideration. I recommend Gmail too. I haven't had ANY spam since I got it. I agree with bandraoi too.
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  • ~daisy~_2
    ~daisy~_2 Posts: 2,566 Forumite
    my children have gmail and they never get any however i also have gmail and use it or competitions and online forms and i get alot but it is all directed into the spam folder and doesnt appear in my inbox ever so doesnt really bother me
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  • honeypop
    honeypop Posts: 1,502 Forumite
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    In the many years I've had my hotmail account, I have never had a spam message so I would have said that it's ok to use for your daughter. Like the others say, it's not the provider that enables you to get spammed, it's down to the person putting their email address in places online.
  • nickj_2
    nickj_2 Posts: 7,052 Forumite
    i too can recommend gmail, i've used it for around a year and have never had any spam
  • Skint_Catt
    Skint_Catt Posts: 11,548 Forumite
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    ~daisy~ wrote: »
    my children have gmail and they never get any however i also have gmail and use it or competitions and online forms and i get alot but it is all directed into the spam folder and doesnt appear in my inbox ever so doesnt really bother me

    What she said! My hotmail is terrible! Even my Mum (who doesn't surf or use the internet) gets seriously dodgy spam through Hotmail!
  • Great folks! I'll consider all the above - for some reason it wont let me thank you all - so I'll try again later :)
  • LottieB
    LottieB Posts: 27 Forumite
    I love Gmail!! There are adverts on the screen but they relate to whatever you're talking about by email. So if she's talking about school there will be homework help sites etc.
  • My hotmail account which I use soley for ebay/paypal and flixter never gets any spam. My other hotmail account which gets used for every day use gets lots of spam.

    I think it depends on what you sign up for on your accounts. Gmail is the best for spam filters, though. It moves everything to the spam filter, but I'm sure you can set the worst spam to delete automatically.
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