is there any way to to stop unwanted repeated spam?

Answer 1

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 [e-mail] and continue down to [e-mail]. 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!

Answer 2

Hi Thomas,

There is no sure fire way. Everyone would love to develop the perfect spam filter because it would be worth a fortune.

You can beat it down but you can't stop it and you have to walk the line between deleting spam and accidentally deleting mail you want.

The spam filters available commercially are stopgap at best.

Norm

Answer 3

In conjunction what the others above me wrote having an e mail handle that can not be randomly guessed facilitates. So a username with letters that would not inevitably make a classic be conscious with numbers and different characters facilitates immensely. and that i even have 3 separate e mail handle: a million. This one is the single i take advantage of for ALL on line correspondence with agencies or whomever needs an e mail handle/communities or mailing lists. (This e mail gets the final public of unsolicited mail) 2. for brand spanking new pals who each and every so often fwd emails which get despatched to random human beings. Or pals who fwd emails (Which opens it as much as unsolicited mail creditors getting it) If the buddy is a guy or woman who fwd emails they on no account get my own e mail handle. 3. for human beings i be attentive to who do no longer fwd emails. it particularly is my own e mail handle that purely depended on human beings gets. On my own e mail handle (the final one) i will purely acquire approximately 5 spams consistent with month. And it particularly is after having it for extra or less 4 yrs. And the only reason it particularly is getting spammed is b/c somebody hacked a pals e mail handle and despatched unsolicited mail to all her contacts. I relatively have for the reason that blocked that buddy and given her my e mail handle for pals who fwd e mail #2. I did that b/c she curiously the two has a gentle pw or use undesirable judgment for on line events. i take advantage of an e mail shopper and get all of them fwd to it so i do no longer "have" to log into numerous e mail addy's on an frequently happening basis.

Answer 4

block that spam by putting the adress it's been sent from on your black list.