Senior friends help me on e-mail?

Question

I constantly (20-30 a day) get emails asking me questions: and no I do not have a timeshare to sell, I never ordered any on line pills, I do not want, nor need a bigger *********, I do not want a payday loan, nor do I want a equity loan, I have a few college degrees, so that is out too. I keep reporting them as spam and they keep coming back. Is anyone else plagued with these? What to do?

Answer 1

Change to Yahoo mail...the spam filters are the best in the business, I use them for my company mail also...before I changed to yahoo, I was getting up to 800 junk mails a day....making email useless. IF you are using Yahoo and this is still happening, mark each one as spam before you discard it ... and DO NOT OPEN any junk mail...all that does is prove you have a working email address. Perhaps it is time to change your email address and start all over ...and do not open spam, every time you do, you send a cookie to the sender that the email is working, and they sell the lists of active email addresses! Good luck and peace, Goldwing

Answer 2

Go to settings and make sure your spam block is on...although you will still receive them they will go into your bulk folder. I just click 'empty' on the bulk folder several times a day and never even look at them in the listing, much less open them. I get hundreds every day with Yahoo. I have another email account which I use only for true emailing and get no spam there.

Answer 3

Well Jim, If you're using Yahoo
mail, they have filters that should filter out the spam. If
it doesn't, then mark it spam and they will not let it thru again. As I recall, you can also
set your preferences as to what you will receive (or not.)
I'm sure you know that your
Answers email is open, so
anyone on answers (anywhere in the world) and
all their contacts, can email
you. Why not close down your Answers email for a week and see what happens?
At least you will know where its coming from.

Answer 4

I used an email address I seldom use, remember to check maybe twice a year when I signed up here on yahoo - I have NEVER had spam in any of my email accounts. BUT surprise, I checked it two weeks after signing up on Yahoo and there were 450 spam emails in it.

You can thank Yahoo for all your spam - my guess is they sell your email addresses to spammers, its a big business selling email addresses.

Set your mail filter to high - create a safe list -

I think its pretty rotten of them, but thats why they have this FREE answers thing, so they can harvest email addressed from the members and make money off you -- its not because they are nice guys.

Which is also why it isnt really monitored, in fact it wasnt monitored at all until the cops came down hard on them for all the pedophiles hooking up with kids on here -

Remember that show on TV where they were reeling in the pedophiles? Guess where they were getting them from?

ONLY after that did Yahoo decide to make a half *** effort to monitor Answers, before that it was just a gold mine for them, with almost no overhead.

Welcome to the slimey world of cyber exploitation.

We managed to make something good out of it, this senior site is the exception to this kind of "mining" that is done on the internet -- pat on the back to all of us !

Answer 5

Am in exactly the same boat as you are. Here's what I do. I scan my emails and answer those that I know where meant for me. (Those I want to keep, I "Move" to a 'folder'.) And then after that I go back to the beginning of the list, and at the bottom of the page there is a little icon that says "delete all" - so I click it on, they all get a check mark. Then I hit the delete and VOILA all those pesky things are gone! You just have to do it all over again the next time you log on.
Hope this helps.

Answer 6

When you are in your email, go up to the top right and click on options. In options it will tell you what to do and all you need to know in blocking spam and other unwanted mail. I blocked all my bulk mail. I never get any. And I still get spam but not near as much as I use to. When I get an email that slips through my block I click the spam button. It eventually stops.

Answer 7

I agree...Keep clicking the "spam Button."
Clear your Cache's by eleting cookies and temporary internet files often, This will also keep your computer from getting bogged down.
There is a rash of UK Lotteries, People Dying and wanting to donate large sums of Money (sort of like Scrooge), and other emails using Banks Names (I even had a scam email that claimed to be the IRS and wanted to give me 138.75 in return for my "information") and asking for information.
I suggest that you report these to Either the Bank that was named, or some Scam fighters such as [e-mail]; to try to get some of these scammer-Spammers off of the internet. If we all do something about it, we can put a dent in it.
I'm tired of the junk we get. It turns out exercise for my fingers to delete, but in essence wastes all of our time in the scanning the spam to erase.

Good luck!

Answer 8

Every day I get them too. I thought spam button was to make them disappear and never come back but they do. Hope somebody has a better answer as I am just as confused as you are about them. Make it stop thats all we ask right?

Answer 9

RB, I too have made some spectacular acquaintances in this internet site and that i do have many own e-mails so we are no longer limited to X volume of letters used in them. i'm so grateful for the magnificent human beings I surely have met right here, which includes you!

Answer 10

Hmm? I am not a computer whiz but maybe you could delete the cookies you create every time you go on an Internet search. Also, I have pop-up detector that zaps those babies before they get to me. A few still get in, but I delete as spam.