Nearly every time I open my e-mail I have at least two marked Urgent - Confidential Business Proposition etc., I know these are not to be opened at all and should be deleted immediately but is there any way of blocking them???
2007-05-20 08:15:23 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
Best thing its to install Mozilla Thunderbird. Every time you receive one those emails, you can tell the program that it is spam, after a while the program will recognize them as spam and they can be directed to the trash can
www.mozilla.com
Good luck
2007-05-20 08:20:32 · answer #1 · answered by Elvis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends how you are receiving email. If you use yahoo mail then you can use the spam filter. If you are using outlook, outlook express, thunderbird &c you can set up filters or rules to divert most of them to a junk folder. You can install Mailwasher from Firetrust.com to preview the titles and delete them before download. The reason you're getting them is that your email address is in the spammers database. Have you ever replied to a spam?, given your address to an untrustworthy contact, or can it be easily guessed (jsmith@whatever.com)? or has one of your friends had an email trojan? Ultimately the only sure way is to change your address, and be a bit creative in thinking up the bit before the @
2007-05-20 21:11:09 · answer #2 · answered by The original Peter G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but I have received a lot of fraud mail from other sources which I just delete.
2016-05-22 02:20:05 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Setup your SPAM filter and block the emails by their commonly used keywords.
I believe you are referring to the bank fraud emails (e.g. Nigerian scam) but most of them would use fake email addresses, forged headers and intentionally misspelled words; it's rather difficult...
But don't they arrive in your SPAM folder anyways? If you don't recognize the name of the sender, simply delete it; don't bother reading it or reporting it as SPAM. They will just get a new email address, new IP and route their emails through "trusted" countries/networks anyways...
Whatever you do, don't reply, or try to "unsubscribe." That will simply confirm that your email address is active and they will send you more and more...
I get about 4 or so per day. I don't bother opening them; they only arrive in my dummy accounts anyways. (e.g. free email addresses)
2007-05-20 08:40:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depending on the email client you use you can. Many email client's allow you to block email from country's that you define.
See:
http://lifehacker.com/software/outlook/stop-spam-from-foreign-countries-259338.php
If that one doesn't help try a search on yahoo for something like "block email from certain country's in email-programs-name-goes-here"
If you don't want to block emails from entire country's then be sure to mark the messages as spam, thats about as good as you can get.
Hope this helps!
2007-05-20 08:27:03 · answer #5 · answered by pogo730 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You could set tto block that email subject using a filter, probably have to switch back to basic yahoo to set that in mail options though. Set your span filter to High.
2007-05-20 08:20:55 · answer #6 · answered by iluvpurple_05 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mark each one as either spam or junk and your account should recognise them as such and not send them to your in-box (works with hotmail and yahoo!)
Don't know how to 'block' them.
2007-05-20 08:25:13 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you can "block" all those specific e-mails yourself. If you aren't sure how to do it, got to "Help" on Yahoo & go from there.
2007-05-20 08:24:19 · answer #8 · answered by Shortstuff13 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wish that I could help every one with this problem but i've run out of ideas.
2007-05-23 07:11:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
depending what email program you are using. if you use mailwasher to download then you can select to block them and it is easy to delete. hope this helps
2007-05-20 12:19:57 · answer #10 · answered by ally k 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋