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Why have I been getting increased amounts of SPAM in my Yahoo Mail inbox?

  • I have not given my email address out to any website that I don't know. I'm very very careful about that, but over the past two months I've been receiving more and more SPAM mail in my yahoo inbox. Before all of these messages were being caught by the filter, but not anymore. Now they get sent to my inbox and no matter how many times I report them as SPAM they still show up back in my inbox. Does anyone know if Yahoo is having issues with their junk mail filter, or is this just going to become a steadily greater annoyance until I have to go and create another email address somewhere else?

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    The spammers are getting ahead of the filters and programs. Anti-spam programs and filters are only as smart as the people who do the programming and if the spammers devise a new way, the new spam gets by the programs and filters. The programmers are always a step behind and playing a game of "catch up" to eliminate spam. You are just in the middle of a cycle where the spammers are getting a little further ahead of the programmers so more ends up in your inbox. Keep on reporting the spam you get. Every little bit helps the programmers catch up to the spammers. Every time you visit a web page, your browser tells the web server information about you. Go to Gibson Research which I think is at http://www.grc.com and do the various tests available there, especially "Shields Up." It does not cost anything to do the various tests and they are among the most effective at checking your security. One of the tests they can do is tell you what your browser tells a web page about you. One of those things may be your email address and web pages you visit may be harvesting your email address and it gets added to a mailing list which gets sold to the spammers. The latest way to get spam through is to use a image with little to no actual text. It is hard to filter out an image of an advertisement which is correctly addressed and not coming from a known spam IP address or domain.

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Maybe Yahoo is accepting money from professional spammers. I observed the same thing and I do not trust the execs. at Yahoo (GREED).

Rev. Dr. Al Poe

The Same thing is happening to me i have over 1500 spam emails in my spam folder and in my inbox even more spam theres 1314 spam messages in my inbox!!!!

Ryan

Yes.. I have noticed this too.. Yahoo mail definitely has something wrong with its spam filters. It could also be because I already have about 480 blocked addresses in my "Options" and they impose and upper limit of 500 addresses for the free version of Yahoo ?!? Have you guys also reached close to the limit of 500??

Fujitsu

I have noticed occasionally when I have opened an email, or send a page from some web pages I then get a lot of junk and spam. If you send pages you need to check off the things you do not want to receive. I hope this helps.

Kirah

That is just part of the email world. Spam senders always find a way to send spam to you. It may be by you, unintentionally revealing your email. There are sites that you may trust that sells your address. They always seem manage to squeeze thought the blockers by the way they word their emails. One way you can prevent receiving some spam is to NEVER, after you receive these emails go to the bottom and use the unsubscribe option. This just tells the Spam senders that they have a live account Welcome to the cyber world.......

Richard J

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