Junk mail deletion
- Thread starter sunny
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I am guessing this is your free SOMD account? I think when you sign up, there is an indicator that you can check to block some of that stuff. I know that I have not received any spam on my hotmail account and very, very little on my SOMD account.
I like your avatar, it looks just like mine....
I like your avatar, it looks just like mine....
Many times the "unsubscribe" is just a ploy to see if yours is a working email address. Once the spammers know the address is a good one they can sell it to other spammers, which is why your junk mail goes way up.
The best way to deal with spam is to simply delete it.
Thanks RoseRed and Vrailblonde for the info, it is on my hotmail account that this happens, ,seems like the junkmail started when I signed up for a dvd club, guess they gave or probably sold my email address to every spammer out there. I have used the block address option, but it is full and I can no longer block anymore addresses.
Why not try setting up some custom filters, instead of blocking individual addresses? (Note that most spammers use phony, randomly-generated addresses anyway--so blocking addresses does not good.)
On your hotmail account click on Options, and under Mail Handling, click the Custom Filters link. I've set my fiilters to automatically trash email containing the following words in the subject line:
penis, mortgage, credit, viagra, young, debt, sex, free, cell phone, diploma, congratulations, degree, hair loss, beaver, snatch, cam, and camera.
Another tip for avoiding spam: don't open spam messages if you have your email set to automatically show html code. Unscrupulous companies can simply embed an html reference to a nonexistent URL on their server--a URL that's unique for each email recipient. By looking in their webserver error logs, they can determine which recipients looked at the email, and thus fit the demographic profile:
1) Have valid email address
2) Will at least have a look at the message