Why can I no longer "BLOCK" spam emails I keep receiving?????

[caesarome]

As it is Yahoo who provide and manage the email service it would be them they would need to implement this but with spam is the key is to keep on reporting them as spam so that they arte automatically filtered because you could have a thousand filters in place but you still wouldn't be able to stop more spam from arriving.

[Mark39]

@Discodavey to be honest, I'm not sure there's much point blocking spam emails, unless you get them consistently from the same email address (which is unlikely). Better to report them as spam, which over time will lead to them being blocked by Sky/Yahoo. 

Some email providers seem to be better than others at handling,spam, though, to be fair, I receive very little via Sky Yahoo Mail either. I suspect a lot depends on your online activity.

[speed098]

To be honest a 1000 limit is not acceptable in this day and age and any tech company with any clue at all could easily have a log of these blocks and when they reach a certain number it automatically removes it from the individuals block and adds it to Sky/Yahoo's own system block.

Before reaching the 1000 limit these blocks DID make a difference I was only getting a few slip through at most per day now it is easily a min of 12 and many days probably getting to be around 20 and I see this problem only increasing.

As many of these spams emails are trying to con money out of people I hold it is the responsability of the service provider to do as much as possible to protect their customers from these criminals and not doing so makes themas bad as these criminals.

[Mark39]

@speed098 by all means raise a complaint with Sky.

[jayach]

@speed098 

1000 possible bocks is more than enough for anyone. Spammers/Scammers do not come cosistantly from one email address, they change the address use all the time.

You are using the block facility incorrectly, it's not for spam, that is what the spam filter is for.

[caesarome]

There is no system that is going to be able to block every piece of spam sent to you so no matter how many you try and block more will get through which is why you shoud be marking these as spam so the system can learn to filter these for you as just blocking them means it will no do,

[Lieberg]

Except the spam filter does not work. I constantly get 'reminders' about my McAfee and Norton subscriptions, neither of which I have used in the last 10 years at least. I tried to set up filters to stop these and they had no effect. I used the 'contain' McAfee or Norton in heading, body and sender but they don't work. I too have reached my 1000 limit. Looks like I'll have to go through the list deleting some I no longer receive and hope I don't start receiving them again!!

[Mark39]

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@Lieberg wrote:

Except the spam filter does not work. I constantly get 'reminders' about my McAfee and Norton subscriptions, neither of which I have used in the last 10 years at least.

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If these are emails legitimately relating to your previous subscriptions, they're  not spam. You'd be better off contacting McAfee and Norton to get your details removed.

[jayach]

The spam filter does work, at least it does for me, and yes I get the same type of spam, but it never reaches my inbox. 

It seems strange that it is apparently not working for you.