Flooded with spam email.

Hi,

This may be a problem for many people so I am hoping someone has a good solution. My email account is with hotmail. My junk mail folder is constantly flooded with all kinds of spam, from both legit businesses and some down right disgusting(ahem) dating sites as well as obvious phishing scams. Interestingly, all most all of them end with @yahoo.com. This an example of an email address that I blocked today <snip>. My blocking filter will not allow me to block just @yahoo.com. Is there a solution to end this avalanche of junk? Thanks for any help you offer.

 

When was the last time you changed your passwords i would recommend on once a month mine works just fine.Is this the newer Yahoo or the older version Then newer version of yahoo seems to have more spam in it then the older version does.Ill try to find the link for the older version of yahoo for you.here i found my link

I am thinking that your using the newer yahoo for some reason it does seem to bring in more spam then the older yahoo classic version.

And can some body delete the posters email.

http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page...wbHXIe_TZGlPV2TgKJAdDYj8r9Bo9675m5Gvj89shlpnX

 

I would also make your profile private.

http://suite101.com/article/yahoo-pulse-make-yahoo-profiles-private-by-changing-settings-a275504

 

I believe you misunderstood the original post. He did not say he has a yahoo account; he said a lot of spam comes from yahoo accounts. He has a Hotmail account.

Using an email client such as Windows Live Mail and blocking, i.e., sending to the Junk Mail folder, all mail from yahoo.com might be a solution.

 

Thanks usafveteran, I really missed the boat on that one. :-o

 

Beep lol i though it was yahoo my bad

 

Yes, I use hotmail and NOT yahoo for email. And yes, I have changed my password, twice, in the last couple months. This problem has been ongoing for quite sometime. There must be a solution.

 

Might it be that you're receiving this spam because some one with a compromised Yahoo account has your email addy in their mailing list? Do all of these spam happen to be 4K in size, or all the same size close to 4K?

 

I am guessing you might need to start adding Filters here is away to do it on Gmail.
http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6579#1
I looked all around Gmail and could not find a spam filter option unless i missed it.
But in your situation i would probably start bye doing filter options.
And filtering out the good from the bad

I know how you feel :spam sucks And its very annoying it can drive people crazy

I am all starting to think that may be one of your contacts in your list is hacked and its sending mail from it.I had that happen to my yahoo account and it kept sending emails to my mom and she new it was not me.

Might want to contact any body that is in your contact list and check to make sure that there email accounts are not hacked.

 

I really don't have a problem with spam in my old classic yahoo i think its the updated email that have issues there where a lot of complaints about the newer yahoo that had every body getting spam i did as well as soon as i switched back to the old classic yahoo i barely got one or two a week.

 

Why would the new yahoo mail interface get more spam then the old one? its not a different email service ,just a different front end, also the user uses hotmail. Not gmail, not yahoo, not aol, its hotmail! Read the whole post!

 

I was quoting LauraR not the main poster Geeez

And the newer Version of yahoo does seem to bring in more spam then the older classic i have had very little spam since i switched my two yahoo accounts back to classic mode and there where a lot of complaints about the updated not blocking spam properly.

 

That's what I was thinking.
I know it's really annoying but all of that stuff Is going into the Junk folder, so all you have to do is delete it.

Would it be better if you did not get all of that C**P?
Sure.
But at least the filter seems to be working properly.
The worst is that you have to check the Junk folder contents to look for Legitimate email.

 

Here is another example of what I believe to not be legitamite. It is from Windows Live Hotmail informing me that they are unable to verify my account.
When I click the link, I get a page that says the account has been suspended.

 

Well I certainly learned a couple things here. Thanks to all of you for your contributions. Cheers!

Bill