What do I do to stop email spam?

How can I stop this email spam?

  • I've been getting spam emails from hijacked hotmail and yahoo accounts, sometimes several a day. Each one has links to a groups.yahoo.com page and also to a presumed infected URL. I use Roadrunner email service and Microsoft Outlook. Most of them end up in my spam folder, but some get missed. Is there a Rule I can set up in Outlook to make sure they always go to spam or get deleted immediately? I can't think of how to block them without blacklisting Yahoo and Hotmail domains. Any tips? Thanks!!

  • Answer:

    What Vivienne told you is the only measure you have, to work with. Sadly there is no true way to stop spammers from getting through. Many use a p[program to auto generate email addresses to send their spam to. Then those emails that do work are harvested, and sold to other spammers, for pennies on the hundred. Spammers consider any service provider of free email addresses, to be disposable after a few uses. In short they use, and after they have been caught, will abandon that email address if it's not canceled for violating the provider's terms of use.

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I dont think you can stop spam, but when it misses some you can mark anything from that sender as spam so it should automatically send it to the spam folder. You can check the help section on your email to find out how to do this. Hope this helps

Vivienne

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