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How can I contact yahoo directly to find out why all of a sudden i am recieving a glut of spam in my inbox when i pay for yahoo mail?

• I have yahoo mail plus and in the last two weeks i have received a glut of spam in my inbox. How do I contact Yahoo to find out why.

• Answer:

  Here's how to contact Yahoo! Customer Care Support - https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/SLN5856.html?impressions=true An increase in the amount of spam simply means your email address has finally made it to an active spam mailing list. Yahoo isn't responsible for the spam that goes into your account. It's your responsibility to decide what is and isn't spam and mark the emails accordingly. If you feel the Yahoo spam filters aren't up to the task you can always try running your email through some external filters first Top 12 Free Spam Filters for Windows - http://email.about.com/od/windowsspamfightingtools/tp/free_spam.htm Trying to block or filter spam emails is a losing battle since the spammers can make small changes so their spam will evade your filters. This leads to a never-ending cycle of you creating new filters every time a spam mail slips through. You want to mark each email as spam so Yahoo's Spamguard will improve over time. You can do this by right-clicking on the spam email and then left-clicking on the option "This is Spam". Here's some articles on how to fight the good fight against spam. Stopping spam from coming into your Yahoo! Mail Inbox. - https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/SLN3227.html?impressions=true An email was wrongly filtered as spam - https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/SLN4910.html?impressions=true Some abuse reporting tools - http://abuse.net/tools.phtml Fight Spam on the Internet - http://spam.abuse.net/ Filters in Yahoo Mail - https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/SLN15994.html?impressions=true Block addresses in Yahoo Mail - https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/SLN3228.html?impressions=true