Spam Email

I'm suddenly getting bombarded with tons of spam. Is there a program to help with this?

 

I should say a Major Geeks suggested one.

 

What's your current set up?

 

Win 10, Home, Yahoo email. A lot of this spam is showing up in my regular email, and not spam file.

 

Thanks, Tim. I have tried this but it seems like the more I block, the more that comes. I wonder if when you block one, the sender informs other spammers of your email address.

 

Thanx.

I've been doing that and have about 600 blocks. But as mentioned, it seems the more I block, the more spam I receive.

This all started when I gave Pembroke Pines (FL) Lexus my email. Despite me asking them to not send me any of their emails, they continue to so so. It's kind of funny that their emails have an "opt out" of further emails to click on but you can click it all day and nothing happens.

 

That's why many of us create secondary email addresses. If you decide later you really want their email's, you can always update them with your primary address.

I've read in various forums about AOL and Yahoo users complaining of junk mail - some claiming that the company that bought them isn't investing much - so spam filters become increasingly ineffective. Who knows?

I'm a sample population of one - but my own experience - I use Gmail and I used to get dozens and dozens of junk mail ~10 or so years ago (viagra, enlargement) - but for the last few years, I hardly get any - maybe one every one or two weeks? I have just eight filters / blocked addresses. I attribute this to Gmail's effective spam blockers and the fact that I give out my addy only to friends and family. I have separate emails for banking, shopping, "throwaway", and accounts recovery.

If you don't mind Google, I highly recommend Gmail. But if you do, an alternative might be ProtonMail.