Is there an effective way to deal with email spam?

Any way rescue email account from crazy spam attack?

  • I must have posted my email somewhere and had it picked up by bots- suddenly I'm getting 15 spammers straight through the yahoo mail guard and into my inbox. Anyone know of a way to forward all legitimate email to a new address?

  • Answer:

    If the spam is in your inbox, just click the spam button and futhers emais from the same address do not appear.

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Not without paying no. I would just send an e-mail to all that you know with your new info in it.

Malone

Contrary to what you might read here, spammers DON'T get your email address off some list that has been bought and sold many times over or from web sites you might have visited. Modern day spammers generate their own lists by computer, creating very long lists of sequential addresses (such as aaaa@, aaab@, aaac@, aaad@, etc), sometimes several million addresses long. They know that in those millions of addresses, some of them have to be real addresses. They are hoping you will open their mails, which will alert them that you do in fact have an active address. They then compile their own lists of active addresses that they can FLOOD with emails. The lesson here is to be smart about handling mails that come from people we don't know and trust. And changing to a new email address isn't an answer. If the spammers are reaching your current Inbox, what is to stop them from reaching your new one???

maowbro--Retired

Get a google mail account nearly 3000mb of storage space auto spam filter I have used it for over a year and all spam gets filtered and you can delete them all in on go, but with the high amount of storage you will not loose any of your genuine emails. You can only get an account by invitation from an account holder so if you or anyone else is interested email me at boropolatgmaildotcom typed to prevent spammers picking it up, but think you should be able to work it out. :-) There is no obligation on this google give you a full description of the service before you sign up. Hope this helps. John

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