How can you stop emails that are obviously spam yet just recently have begun to come up on my email address?
by Author on Thursday, May 6th, 2010 | 2 Comments
For years, all my emails were from those I had subscriptions or to those people I gave my address. Just recently, (last 3 weeks) I am getting 10-20 emails from insurance companies, car companies, etc.
I tried to unsubscribe to many of them, but it seems only to add more unwanted emails. What can I do?
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Unless you actually asked for the E-mails, you can not unsubscribe to them. And openning them only tells the spammers that your address is valid and they send you more and more of it. But you can fight the spam.
You can not completely stop all spam, but you can help to put a big dent in it.
First, try not to open any of them, that only makes them send more and more to you.
Check mark them and click on ‘Spam,’ this should stop those addresses from being delivered to your inbox.
Use your spam filter and block address.
Look for the ‘Options’ link at upper right corner of mail screen and click on it
Options/ mail options / spam preferences
make sure spam guard is on, click on save changes
Options /mail options / blocked addresses
Enter the E-mail address you wish blocked and click on ‘add block’
you will never get mail from that address again.
This should help you to control your spam.
Other tips:
Never open E-mail unless you are absolutely sure who it is from.
Never give out your personal information to anyone.
If at a website and you must sign up for something, check the entire page to make sure you uncheck any lines wanting to send you notices, info, or ads.
Added detail:
Yes, spammers change one item in their addresses a lot, so you might try blocking the entire domain, by putting in
*@ thedomainyouwanttoblock.com
for instance: *@seeyou.com
Hope this helps.
NEVER OPEN the SPAM. NEVER click the UNSUBSCRIBE lines of SPAM (which actually tips scammers they snagged a "fish").
If you don’t know the sender, check the email and click SPAM; let SpamGuard do the rest.