I delete these messages about 6 times a day and don't know whether to open them and unscribe or just continue to delete them. Fortunately, Yahoo is placing them in my Bulk Mail file. This was all created through an ad at the top of my HomePage.
2006-08-04 08:17:42 · 6 answers · asked by mumnlw 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
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 aaaaa@INVALID.com and continue down to zzzzz@INVALID.com. 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, so you don't register with them.
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!
2006-08-04 08:25:53 · answer #1 · answered by jibberjabbar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the time there is a link you can click on at the bottom of the page. There might also be an email you have to send a blank message to, but those don't always work.
2006-08-04 08:22:37 · answer #2 · answered by mcnary21 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They come from Subscription paid domains servers. when you visit a web sight and leave the sight your IP address to your email leaves your address some place and there automatically server gets it that you were there and left and send you and reminder to come back and visit sometime and they want you to become a paid subscriber to there web sight. If you knew all there sight names and try to unsubscribe its unlikely that your address will be found in there domain because someone that is a member in the sight has took your address and entered it in a text messenger phone and is sending you continuous Spams trying to get you to Join there Web sight. Its all about money to the web sight so if they bug you enough they think you just might subscribe and who got you to subscribe might get paid for getting you to subscribe.
2016-03-26 23:12:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well unfortunatly once your e-mail address is out on the interent you won't be able to stop Spam comming in into your email box.
now since it goes to your bulk folder-- don't worry about it, just click "empty" button every few days. I get about 200 messages like this-- as i said i don't bother reading them.
2006-08-04 08:23:54 · answer #4 · answered by Mrsashko 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get the address(s) or domain(s) of the spammers and add them to your filters and edit the filter settings to delete messages from those addresses/domains. Go to Options < Filters
2006-08-04 08:22:58 · answer #5 · answered by Mujareh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, you're in with the rest of us now. There's virtually no way to get rid of all SPAM. You can try unsubscribing if you want...also put in complaints with the company and BBB is you choose.
2006-08-04 08:22:18 · answer #6 · answered by Yoi_55 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋