topic Re: spammed to death in Email

spammed to death

Bodplod — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 13:29:00 GMT

Anyone else spend time each day blocking emal afddresses from phishing and spam emails that avoid Yahoo's spam filters? - they outnumber genuine emails in my inbox

Re: spammed to death

Mark39 — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 13:36:00 GMT

I rarely see any, to be honest. I believe a lot depends on marketing consents and other online activity.

Re: spammed to death

jayach — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 14:05:49 GMT

There really is no point blocking spam emails. If they are not being caught by the spam filter, then presumably they don't appear to be spam. Could you give an example of this "spam"?

Re: spammed to death

Bodplod — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 14:24:56 GMT

This week, multiple phishing attempts re bitcoin, fake 'prizes' allegedly from high street stores using masked emails and logos. thanks

Re: spammed to death

caesarome — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:14:48 GMT

Just keep marking them all as spam and this is worth doing more than trying to block them.

Re: spammed to death

jayach — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 16:13:28 GMT

@Bodplod wrote:
This week, multiple phishing attempts re bitcoin, fake 'prizes' allegedly from high street stores using masked emails and logos. thanks

Strange, as whilst I get the same kinds of spam, they are caught by the spam filter, so I never see them, unless I check the spam folder.

Re: spammed to death

Avril10 — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 08:06:05 GMT

I spent most days blocking the disgraceful emails I receive into my spam folder, so much so that I am already at the 1000 blocked email limit and can block no more.

This seems to now allow some through to my inbox and not straight to spam.

Something needs to be done from Sky's end to reduce this for it's subscribers, we pay enough!

It is not just bit coin and scam department emails it is also sexual content.

Re: spammed to death

jayach — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 08:23:02 GMT

@Avril10 wrote:
I spent most days blocking the disgraceful emails I receive into my spam folder, so much so that I am already at the 1000 blocked email limit and can block no more.

Blocking Spam (especially if it's in the spam folder) is a complete waste of time. The spammers use constantly changing email addresses, mostly fake. Marking any that reach the inbox as spam is far more productive as it teaches the spam filter to recognise them based on more than the email address.

Re: spammed to death

Mark39 — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 08:30:12 GMT

@Avril10 I was typing pretty much the same as @jayach 🙂

Blocking emails, rather than marking them, as spam won't teach 'the system' to identify them for what they are.

Re: spammed to death

Potters1863 — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 08:39:38 GMT

I too am getting loads of spam every day. Prizes, hot Ukrainian girls, organ enlargement the lot, really getting me down. I do block but now reading this is a waste of time. Fed up

Re: spammed to death

caesarome — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 10:27:37 GMT

Are you marking these as spam if they are ending up in your inbox ?

Re: spammed to death

Potters1863 — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 10:32:26 GMT

I am, yes

Re: spammed to death

caesarome — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 13:19:19 GMT

Then there isn't much you can do other than to setup a email address somewhere else like Gmail and use that instead.

Re: spammed to death

jayach — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 13:42:28 GMT

I get plenty of spam, but it's not a problem as it is (nearly) all caught by the spam filter, so I never see it. (except when I check spam to see if there have been any false positives)