has anyone had an unwanted person sending you emails and every time you block that screen name they just create another one & continue to send emails to you. That is happening to me and I block and block and block but this person just keeps emailing me with another screen name that gets by my block. I've told her not to send me any more emails but she keeps sending them. It's annoying and maddening and every time I'm surprized when I open an email from her it just ruins the mood I'm in and interferes with what I'm doing because I have to block her again before my mind will allow me to get on with what I was doing before I got her email. If anyone else has experienced something like this Please tell me what you did to stop it.
2006-08-18 15:38:13 · 9 answers · asked by Jeff P 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Yes. I had someone harrass me until I deleted my yahoo account and made a new one. You can go to the yahoo account deletion page, delete the account, make a new one and start over.
I highly recommend to edit your answers settings to not show your email addy or user name. I also recommend you not use your real picture because the trolls will occasionally make a fake account with your picture and post gross and disgusting posts, pretending to be you.
The trolls will attack you for the dumbest stuff and start sending mean crazy emails. It is so dumb.
2006-08-18 15:48:38 · answer #1 · answered by smith 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the next emails you get from this person, take note of the IP address that is in the email header. If they are email from a PC that is kept "on" all the time with a dedicated Internet connection, it will probably be the same IP address each time. If so, BINGO!
You can now add a filter to your Outlook to stop any email from that IP address -- you can even have it automatically deleted.
Even better, look up who owns the IP address. Go to http://www.arin.net and paste the IP address in the search window to see what company it is registered to. If it is an Internet service provider, you can complain to them. If it is a commercial company, all the better, you can contact them and tell them someone is harassing you from their system and you want them to find out who. Their security team will be all over that (the person will probably get fired, too).
Good luck!
2006-08-18 16:03:29 · answer #2 · answered by tuffsubject 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It might be worth looking into trying to get her IP address (the address of her computer on the Internet) and seeing if you can block that.
You could also block her domain (everything after the @ in the email address) if she's not on a popular domain like yahoo, hotmail or aol.
You could try reporting her to her own provider (the domain).
Worst case scenario, you could create an alternative email address if your email address isn't widely distributed. I know that sucks, but it might be the only alternative if none of the other options work.
2006-08-18 15:47:54 · answer #3 · answered by nyboxers73 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simple way is to change your email address because the person who is sending you email is having your email address.
Changing email address with free email providers is a problem because you will have to inform everyone in the contact list about your new email address.
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2006-08-18 15:54:37 · answer #4 · answered by Sassy Domains 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess you can change your screen name and service provider, but that's kind of extreme. Since you can't block her or control her, all you can do is control your reaction. Turn it into a game. Make bets with yourself for when she'll email, etc. Have yourself a good laugh at her expense.
If what she is doing is threatening, you can contact her isp or the police, but it sounds like it's just annoying.
2006-08-18 15:43:51 · answer #5 · answered by Catspaw 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
this person can use different email addresses or different formats of email to harrass you...
unless u change ur email address completely, else i dun think there is a better solution..
Else what u can do is, get an anti-spam solution if the person is sending advertisements regularly... or use Outlook junk email sender list to block him/her.
You can also use Outlook Rules and Wizards to direct all his/her emails to your "Deleted Items" if u want.
:)
2006-08-18 15:51:57 · answer #6 · answered by keithster2004 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
use yahoo as most of the undesirable emails finally end up in unsolicited mail folder which ever get in ur mail container would be marked unsolicited mail and u wont acquire any from that e mail handle in ur mail inbox yet u won't be able to completely end undesirable emails like u won't be able to end each and all of the undesirable issues in existence
2016-09-29 10:33:40 · answer #7 · answered by spies 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You might consider getting another e-mail address, unfortunetly I don't believe you can block IPs or subnets, sure would be nice though wouldn't it?
2006-08-18 15:52:21 · answer #8 · answered by Delfin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you also report her? Who is she, and why is she doing this? Oh, and, cyberstalking is illegal..
2006-08-18 15:56:09 · answer #9 · answered by chuckufarley2a 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋