How do you stop spam emails? I have norton IS and I block them and add them to the spam area but it dont work?

Answer 1

There are laws against the senders. Data Protection act 2001 (Covering electronic communication), Invasion of Privacy, you could even stretch it to harrasement.

Listen to this Idea:

I receive an e-mail everyday from someone offering me discount Viagra. Instead of binning it, I look at the senders details. The from line is easy to forge, but the IP address tells me the senders IP number.

It does not matter if you forge your from address, it has to come from somewhere. It does not just randomly appear.

I open DOS, type tracert, space, then the IP number of the sender. This then kicks back an exact map of how the offending e-mail got to me. It tells me who the provider of the e-mail account was. I could also use E-trackr to crack the name on the account, but this is timeconsuming. I am racing to get to the spammer before they suspect someone can find them and clears out. Lets say it was sent with Outlook express on a computer connected to the AOL network.

AOL, as well as most other providers, have a zero tolerance policy on the sending of unsolicited commercial e-mails (Spam). A quick forwarding of the offesive e-mail to the abuse@email provider puts the report straight to the e-mail provider. They will then terminate the account, and they do it, by the way.

Now to turn my attention to the website he gave me in his e-mail. The website could be faked, but looking at the raw text code, I can see the IP number of the website. A quick whoIS network search kicks out the site owners name, address, telephone number and date of purchase.

I don't know if its just me, but spammers don't like getting called at 4am in the morning to say I don't want your sh1te.

My spam volumes per day has shrunk in size, to a manageable 2, maybe 3 a month, and they quickly stop when you hunt them down and maul them.

How does that idea for spam handling appeal to you?

BTW; You need to start this as soon as you find them. If you get too many per day to do this to, try to spot the common offenders. The reputation of spammers getting kicked off of E-mail providers because you bite back will likely cause them to stop e-mailing you.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Ho-ly ****, man. DON'T click on the damn unsubscribe links! Most of the time, they do absolutely nothing; if the goal of the e-mail is to lure you into contracting a virus via a URL, the link'll probably take you to the infected page. If they're just advertising, it'll send you to something that SAYS 'Thanks for unsubscribing' or sumthin, but it won't do ****. Just mark all as spam; you're on Yahoo, aren't you? Those messages and others from that sender will get automatically put in the spam folder.

Answer 4

Don't think you can because the spammers continuously change the origin of the email itself which fools the software. Dont let it bother you, just delete it and just consider the people who have the need to send spam to be exceptionally sad who have nothing else better to do in their lives.

Answer 5

Serves you right for using Norton. Since i got rid of it and went with Bullguard brand my life is a lot easier.

Answer 6

not sure what email provider u r using, but if its yahoo or hotmail, go to yr settings and set it on high security, all the spam will go into your junk mail folder

Answer 7

I use bt internet and their software blocks 99.9% of spam

Answer 8

try turning you spam blocker on fool