How do I stop stock advice emails?

Question

I keep recieveing emails in my outlook email program that have stock quotes and advice on them. The top where the stock infomation is is very colorful and then the bottom is text that seems to be just giberish. I get several a day and I block the sender but the next one I get is from another sender. Has anyone else gotten these? Help! Thank you.

Answer 1

I know exacty what you are talking about. Started harassing me several years ago after I played a stock-market simulation game, and has not quit on that account since.

The gibberish is to confuse your spam filter. Try to find a smarter one. Would recommend mine, but I currently use Tulane University...

Failing that, maintain several email addresses. One you use for actual work, the other you give to any site that asks for an address that you don't trust to keep things private. The spam piles up there, and not in your primary! Also, never open one of these. Delete without reading. Spam may attempt to tell sender that your account is real, and yes people have figured out how to make email do this.

Answer 2

I have gotten them too, and also mark them as spam, but as you said the name of the sender constantly changes.

The only think I can suggest is to try to identify a pattern of language or phrases in the emails so you can build and Outlook rule to delete these types of messages, or move them to a folder you create for review before manually deleting.

Create the folder, and move any of those emails you received into that folder. After you accumulate several of them review them and see if you can find common language or phrases. If so, build a rule like "when message contains 'blah blah blah' DO move to folder AND show the following message ...".

Hope that helps. Good luck.

Answer 3

when I get any kind of mail that I don't recognize I just spam it becareful opening email like that it might contain a virus good luck

Answer 4

put them on your blacklist