Suddenly, about 2 weeks ago, I started receiving about 100 + spams each day. Why ? And how to stop ?

Answer 1

Somehow your email address got out there to spammers. Maybe you signed up for something, maybe someone signed you up for something, maybe they found your email through a site.. who knows? But the thing is that some spammer got ahold of your email address. How you stop it depends on what email host you have, alot of the time you can report spam to the email host and this will stop it from coming into your mailbox. Sometimes you can figure out the source of the spam and be taken off their mailing list. How you go about stopping it depends on the email service you are using. Good Luck

Answer 2

There are several possibilities. The most likely is that your email showed up in a mailing list somewhere and a spammer found it. Once that happens, it is gone beyond all hope.

Another option is that your email provider changed the way it scans for spam (assuming it does). Check with them. Or you may have changed settings having to do with filtering spam.

The spammers always try new things. Maybe you got hit by a spammer who is getting around the spam catchers somehow. Hopefully that will subside as your service figures out that it is spam.

If you use Yahoo or any of the major email providers, be sure to flag the spam in their system, so they can learn and keep it away from you in the future.

Answer 3

Once your email address is on a spammers list it is almost impossible to get off. Right now, your e-mail address (along with millions of others) is on a CD being sold from the back rooms of software shops from Bangladesh to Botswanna and from Norway to the Netherlands.

However there are several things that you can do to prevent even more spam.

1. Start by removing your e-mail address from your Yahoo profile,if it is on it. The spam-industry has programs that are continusously crawling the web looking for the "@" symbol which is a sure sign the the word before it and the domain name after it is an e-mail address!

2. Use a longer address. The spam industry uses programs that try sending e-mail to all known domain names. Example: a program might start trying to send out e-mails to everyone starting with [e-mail] and continue down to [e-mail]. Using a longer e-mail address will make this harder to do.

3. Never click the "Unsubscribe Link" in any e-mail. This will only confirm to the spammers that your e-mail address is indeed real and that you are reading their garbage. In fact, do not even open any e-mail from anybody you don't know or trust. Many spams are not only annoying but contain viruses of other malware. Just delete 'em without opening 'em!.
You can however click that "Unsubscribe Me" button from businesses that are well known and that you trust. Walmart... yes. Someone selling Viagra...no.

4. Open up a second e-mail account. Whenever, a website requires you to register using your e mail address, use this secondary address. There are many unscrupulous websites that will sell you address to others or bombard you with spam themselves.

5. Download a free copy of SiteAdvisor. SiteAdvisor will alert you when you search (Google, Yahoo, MSN, search only) of websites that are known to send out spam.

Treat your e-mail address just like you would your telephone number or home address....only give it out to those that you absolutely trust!

Answer 4

Exactly the same thing happened to me.
These came to my business email address that had been on view on my website, so I can only presume that it had been picked up from that by a robot. I have now put a link to my e-mail but not the actual address.
I learnt a lesson from this though and set up a separate e-mail address that I just use when searching the web and have to register on sites etc. That way if it happens again then I can just bin that e-mail addy. and start again.
They are a damn nuisance though and I don't know of anybody who actually responds to any of these.
Do they come in the form of a personal letter?
Whatever you do DO NOT click on unsubscribe as this will only get you 100's more spam letters.
Better still use g.mail as there is a facility to bounce them back to sender thus giving the impression that your addy. doesn't exist.
You need to be invited to g.mail so let me know if you want an invite sending.

Answer 5

first click "spam" on all of them

then, you should follow the following instructions
1. open "my computer"
2. right click "C:/"
3. go to the properties
4. click disk cleanup
5. open your internet browsers
6. tools
7. internet options
8. general
9. clear history
10. delete cookies

you probably have a lot of cookies that are tracking you around

or

download the yahoo toolbar and then run the anti-spy on the toolbar

it will delete all tracking cookies and even catch TROJANS!!!

anyway don't be surprised if your computer is way faster, or if yahoo anti-spy catches like 40 tracking cookies

Answer 6

If it's from the same source try putting the mail ID in spam ...

Answer 7

so please select the tick box and click on spam. and then delete. this is the only way of reducing spams. these keep on comming. next time onwards please do not leave your email address on any porn sites ro any marketting sites. so that there os high risk of getting spam mails from them.

Answer 8

Someone might have given your email to a porn site, or your email appears in a popular web site, you should make it invisible by placing it in an image in your web site.

Answer 9

I would get at least 50/day. Finally I just started "unsubscribing" to them. Now I get maybe 8/day :)

Answer 10

google yourself. If your email comes up in search engines then you dont need to wonder anymore. If its in there then you might as well give that one up and get another.