I keep getting pharmacutical e-mails from companies selling happy pills and viagra and stuff its really annoying as I'm getting about 6 a day I have spam instaled but they are still getting through I've tried replying but this does not work plz help its driving me crazy and soon I will need the happy pills!!
2006-09-14 06:26:51 · 15 answers · asked by Berrylicious 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
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. This can help you avoid registering with any sites that are known to spam people.
http://www.siteadvisor.com/
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!
2006-09-14 06:29:00 · answer #1 · answered by jibberjabar 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I use Tiscali and have paid for their spam filter (about £5 per year I think) which separates the spam at source on the server. So when I download to Outlook I get hardly any of those emails. Then I go onto the Tiscali mail server about once a month and delete all the spam in one go. I would recommend it. It picks up about 99% of spam emails
2006-09-14 06:42:07 · answer #2 · answered by L'il Tree 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-30 23:04:08 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't...the only solution is a new email address/account. I've had to change mine multiple times over the years...I made the mistake of clicking on the unsubscribe link and the buggers immediately sold my address to everyone and their brother! Now I just hit the spam button when I pull up one of those messages in my inbox and from then on it goes to bulk...there's an "empty" link by the bulk link and i just hit that when I check my mail...that way I never even have to pull the bulk list up. Now you know why everyone hates spammers!
2006-09-14 06:35:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dont they provide a link to stpo e-mailing you. If not you can download Comodo Anti-Spam which will block the mails coming from those sites. I dont know the URL but you can get it in www.comodo.com. Send me some happy pills if you do get some!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-09-14 06:56:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Download a program called spamfighter then when the emails come in that you don't want, click on the signs and they will bounce back to whom ever. It works great and it will automatically go into your email program. Besides it is free.
2006-09-14 08:35:37 · answer #6 · answered by twentyeight7 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Click on the email and near the bottom should be instructions to unsubscribe. You need to do alot of them every couple of days, because they keep selling your email and they will pile up on you.
2006-09-14 06:30:04 · answer #7 · answered by Papa John 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In such case , there is one choice in the options button , the following one ...
Immediately delete these messages upon receipt. (Note: If you choose this option, you will not be able to review the messages before they are deleted.)
just select that, then they ll be deleted ... or you could add those mail ids in the block list ...
2006-09-14 06:34:15 · answer #8 · answered by Manis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it s really easy..just mark the message as SPAM and Yahoo will never allow 'em to send emails to ya
2006-09-14 06:45:48 · answer #9 · answered by ★HigHTƹcH★ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Block the sender/s from Tools on your e-mail program.
2006-09-14 08:22:12 · answer #10 · answered by Linda G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋