Spam e mails - help please

[Donnywolf]

Hi

I am being spammed 5 or 6 times a day by a US Based address

The Subjects are all titles something like "Boiler repairs by Deb" "Cheap tyres by Connie" Car Insurance savings by Vanessa" - and they are now getting on my t**s

I have been marking them as Spam but can I make a Rule does anyone know. I was planning to make a rule to reject any e mail containing the words by * (not sure what the wild card would be to identify all names)

So can anyone tell me what I need to put after "by" to capture any/all names or whether there is a better way to get shut of them preferably for good please ?

Cheers and COYR

[Muttley]

What email system are you using? eg Outlook, Hotmail, Gmail etc

[IC1967]

Is your acccount hotmail? Is the email address you are receiving this spam from the same every time after the @? To find this information out you may have to 'reply' to the email (don't send the email though). You are only 'replying' to get their email address. For example do you get 'annoyingemail@right annoyingt**ts.com' or another example 'yetanotherannoyingemail@evenmoreannoyingt**ts.com'.

Sometimes they only use one email address but quite often the same company uses lots of different email addresses to keep spamming you to get around the 'blocking' that you may do. It's the bit after the @ that is important.

Give me the above information and I'll see what I can do.

[Filo]

Is your acccount hotmail? Is the email address you are receiving this spam from the same every time after the @? To find this information out you may have to 'reply' to the email (don't send the email though). You are only 'replying' to get their email address. For example do you get 'annoyingemail@right annoyingt**ts.com' or another example 'yetanotherannoyingemail@evenmoreannoyingt**ts.com'.

Sometimes they only use one email address but quite often the same company uses lots of different email addresses to keep spamming you to get around the 'blocking' that you may do. It's the bit after the @ that is important.

Give me the above information and I'll see what I can do.

I wonder if it's the same with user names?

[Donnywolf]

What email system are you using? eg Outlook, Hotmail, Gmail etc

Hi

BT / Yahoo is where I get my E-mail and I sign in @btinternet.com

[Donnywolf]

Is your acccount hotmail? Is the email address you are receiving this spam from the same every time after the @? To find this information out you may have to 'reply' to the email (don't send the email though). You are only 'replying' to get their email address. For example do you get 'annoyingemail@right annoyingt**ts.com' or another example 'yetanotherannoyingemail@evenmoreannoyingt**ts.com'.

Sometimes they only use one email address but quite often the same company uses lots of different email addresses to keep spamming you to get around the 'blocking' that you may do. It's the bit after the @ that is important.

Give me the above information and I'll see what I can do.

Not on Hotmail or Google ... just as above post

I have been deleting them after marking as Spam but there were  2 when I just got in and both had long but different phrases after the @  ,,,, something like octoberbeauty and internationaleducate

Each time I get them though they all have an address at the bottom with exactly the same PO Box number in Houston and an unsubscribe which does not tale you anywhere useful !
 
 

 

[IC1967]

I'm with hotmail and block spam emails every time I get one. Eventually I get fewer and fewer appearing but it it is a never ending constant battle to keep the numbers low.

As you are with BT the following link should help:

http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/9907/~/how-do-i-stop-spam-emails-in-bt-yahoo-mail-and-bt-yahoo-premium-mail%3F

[Donnywolf]

Cheers

I have been doing the marking as Spam / Not Spam for a few years and barely got any crap through.

However just lately I am getting these bloody things and I mark each one but BT thing is not learning so I decided to create a rule to bung them straight off and send a "recipient does not exist". Unfortunately I don't know the "term" for wild card ... as in reject everything for example containing the words "by "*""

That "*" is my best guess but I don't if it is correct

Regards DW

[IC1967]

You can also block senders. I do this a lot in hotmail and gradually it gets rid of all the crap (until some new crap reappears from nowhere). It's something that needs doing fairly regularly to keep on top of the problem. When adding an email to the blocked senders list I only ever put the domain address i.e. everything after and including the @. For example to block annoyingemail@rightannoyingt**ts.com just input @rightannoyingt**ts.com. Then any email that comes from that domain no matter what it says in front of the @ will get blocked.

http://help.yahoo.com/uk/bt/tutorials/mmail/mm_otherspam3.html

[Donnywolf]

I have set a rule that any incoming e-mail with Houston, and TX 77524 in the body of the Text gets immediately rejected so hope that works - as that appears in every single one of these things

Disappointed that my E-mail provider has  not "learnt" from the spams I keep marking as that and started chucking them in the Spam box automatically

[IC1967]

Good luck. Hope it works.

[Donnywolf]

Good luck. Hope it works.

It has'nt !

[DevilMayCry]

On Yahoo is very simple to block e-mail.



Click on settings, a new window will appear and then click on blocked addresses and write the address, block and then click the blue button to save.

It should work mate.

[Donnywolf]

JHi

Thanks for that but my problem is that the E-mails are all coming in from 1 Company but with hundreds of different e-mail addresses

I am currently "blocking" every one but as someone says above if I block andrea@ blahblahblah.com but then the mailer changes to andrew@blahblahblah.com that will get through

At the moment though my creation of a rule may be working - so fingers crossed.

Thanks again for the advice though

[RobTheRover]

Find an email address at the company in Houston and forward them all back at them!

[Donnywolf]

Cheers Rob

I have been looking for an e-mail so I could fire them off a "complaint" but will now do what you suggest ! Never thought of doing it that way

Unsubscribe (strangely) does not work !

Researching now !

[Dagenham Rover]

unsubscribe just tells them theres a live human at the other end