HELP! My email is being spammed to death:-(

[David2011]

Sending e-mail to others with your e-mail address exposed is another way to get more than you want. A friend started including me in his circle of friends where everyone could see everyone else's e-mail address. Before long someone had an e-mail virus that stole all of their e-mail recipients and I was bombarded with the same sorts of pharmaceutical, dating and other unwanted e-mails. My e-mail provider went belly up and I quit sending e-mail to the friend from my new address. Problem solved.

If you send an e-mail to a group, put them all in BCC instead of "To" or "CC" so no one can see the other recipients. It's not a 100% solution but it's a good start.

David

[swheeler]

the wife works for century link. the spammers have found a way around the company's filters. right now I am getting 400-500 every three days.


she says don't open and try to unsubscribe. you will only get more if you are lucky. if not lucky opening it could download a virus.

Century link is my provider and the spam filter is not working. I deleted about a hundred today, it sucks!

[swheeler]

I opened a gmail account and have been unsubscribing to beat the band.

[MaryB]

I use a throwaway yahoo email for junk use. Rarely check it! Don't care what is in it! My gmail address is only given to people I buy from and friends.

[swheeler]

Something must be working, 43 this morning, much better I guess

[RayinNH]

Maybe they're getting the feeling you don't want to hear from them.

[swheeler]

Think I've got it about licked, 19 this morning.

[swheeler]

They attack with force last night while I slept, 75 this morning. I only recognized one spammer from before, whole bunch of "me", Amy, Barbara and other carp, they all got tagged spam and dumped. It's really getting to be a pain.

[RogerDat]

Wonder why the spam filter doesn't work? I have unsubscrided to a 100 or so in the last month, but what a pain.

If you click the "unsubscribe" link you simply confirm that this email arrived at a valid email account. Pretty much guarantees lots more spam to follow. Never ever use unsubscribe link unless you know it is from a legitimate business. Say you no longer want the specials emailed from Freedom Munitions and it has an unsubscribe link that one would probably be ok, you signed up at the store, you know it is a legit business. From spam email? Never ever click any link in those emails!

Look for an option to "only allow email from people in my address book" or "whitelist option" then make darn sure you add anyone you actually want to email with to your address book or the whitelist. That includes sites you do business with or places like this forum. When signing up at a new place such as a an ammo store or forum where they send you an email to confirm your account you will have to check your spam folder to get that one and add the address.

Also a good idea to have a throw away email such as other member described. Gmail or Hotmail account that is only for "business" separate from the email address you give friends and family.

Oh and never put your email address on a web page, spammers use programs to auto scan web pages searching for email addresses. Phone numbers too. See that from time to time in forum posts, or when someone is selling something online. Always makes me cringe.

[swheeler]

Opened a gmail account and unsubscribed a bunch using that address, seemed to work but a whole new crew of spammers are back. I called centurylink tech support, they had me email them at abuse.net, just waiting to see if I can get this stopped once and for all. They never admitted to a problem on their end and never answered as to why the spam filter provided with service did not work, it used to. It's a waiting game now.

[swheeler]

Anyone that has Centurylink can email abuse@centurylink.net, they will send you instructions on how to install another"new and improved" spam filter they provide. It has saved me a lot of grief, 7 unwanted emails yesterday and 6 in this mornings mail. I can live with that! Thanks to everyone that replied.

[Uncle R.]

Opened a gmail account and unsubscribed a bunch using that address, seemed to work but a whole new crew of spammers are back. I called centurylink tech support, they had me email them at abuse.net, just waiting to see if I can get this stopped once and for all. They never admitted to a problem on their end and never answered as to why the spam filter provided with service did not work, it used to. It's a waiting game now.

Don't unsubscribe!
Don't unsubscribe!
It only makes your spam problem worse, and might lead to nightmare virus infections or even things like identity theft.
Once again...
Don't unsubscribe!

Never click on ANY link in an email - especially an email from Spammers.
That includes "click here to unsubscribe" links!
Just say DON'T.

Hit the "block" button and dump 'em.

Uncle R.

[jonp]

Guess im lucky. I rarely if ever get spam in my inbox. It all goes to the spam box. I check now and again and delete most without opening

[swheeler]

The gmail account was opened just to receive spam, so unsubscribing using the gmail account was intentional. It looks like I don't have to worry about it anymore, the new spam filter is working and anything I have previously tagged as spam is being sent directly to spam, works for me.