I use to share my email account with my parents, and my mom is into to stock investing. But what i dont understand is that most of the emails are useless spam by random people who want me to invest in a certain stock. My mom doesnt use my email anymore but its like these are self-replicating or something. How do i stop all these random people from emailing me. How did my email account become so widely know anyway???
I use yahoo.
June 18th, 2009 at 1:54 am
You have a lot of work to do. You should unsubscribe from most of them, by looking at the end of every e-mail that bothers you. And if there are cases where you can’t do that, because there is no option, or because they would continue to send you e-mails, you can hit the spam button.
June 20th, 2009 at 7:58 am
BLOCK SENDERS LIST – SPAM – FILTERS – REPORT SPAM
NEVER OPEN LINKS IN EMAIL YOU ARE UNSURE ABOUT
DO ALL THIS TO HELP TO PREVENT SPAM TO YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
BLOCKING A SENDER
open email program
top right of page choose options
then choose block senders
type in address
OR JUST CLICK THE SPAM BUTTON IT WILL DO IT FOR YOU
YAHOO FILTERS LINK
go to mail page
choose options top right corner of the page
then Filters
set it up
choose words like you see in email in subject line
this seems to work best
BULK MAIL OPTIONS
open mail program
on right side choose options
then General Preferences
Then Special Folders:
check these two boxes
Save your sent messages in the Sent Items folder
Redirect incoming unsolicited mail to the Bulk Mail folder
you will never see bulk email again
YAHOO EMAIL HELP AND CONTACT THEM…
REPORT SPAM REPORT ABUSE.
report spam from yahoo and qa
customer care
email yahoo at this address
MORE AGENCYS
Federal Trade Commission:
Treasury Department:
FBI:
FTC:
Treasury Department:
USE FILTERS TO AUTOMATICALLY HAVE EMAILS SENT TO A FOLDER ETC
MORE INFO ABOUT SECURITY