Is there any way to get rid of SPAM in my Yahoo email account?

[WestCoastWilson]

Is there any way to get rid of SPAM in my Yahoo email account?

Well I’m back again, with my same old Yahoo email SPAM troubles. For over 6 months now, I have continually received SPAM (like below) in my Yahoo SPAM folder. I’m getting about 25 of these type SPAM emails per day. Just looking at it, it seems that it is coming from the same source or similar sources. The few times that I have accidentally opened these emails, I always block the email address and the domain they came from. Yet overall, it is not doing me any good to block the names or domains, because each one has a weird and kookie domain name. It is as if someone is able to create a new domain for each new SPAM email they send out, yet they keep sending me the same sort of SPAM over-and-over again. GRRRRR!!! Yet in the past 6 months, I never ever open the SPAM in my SPAM folder, I manually delete them, without opening them.

99% of the time, the SPAM in my SPAM folder is SPAM. However 1% of the time, I do have legitimate email that gets caught accidentally in there. Yet unfortunately, 1% of the time, some of that SPAM email gets caught up in my regular email, thus is how I come to accidentally open it and then have to block the email address and domain name.

Yet what makes me really made is, I can send one friend 3 consecutive emails (maybe sending then 1 to 2 minutes apart), yet by the time I try to send the 3rd email, then Yahoo will not let me send it, because it is thinking that I’m sending SPAM and makes me enter 2 words via Captcha. GRRRRR!!! One time when I tried to send a friend an email (that I was forwarding to him), to tell him that someone hacked into his email account, when they sent me that old con email (a con email that has been going around a couple of years), where a friend “supposedly” took a quick trip to Europe and they got robbed and they need money, yada yada, yada). Yahoo email would not let me send that email to my friend (because their system thought it was SPAM), because of the erroneous link that was contained in that email. After about 8 tries and about 30 minutes later, I could never forward that letter to my friend, since I was unable to break up that erroneous link enough where I could send my friend the email. So I gave up and did a cut-and-paste of the letter and sent it to my friend's FaceBook account, which worked okay and he received it and was able to fix his hacked email account problem.

Yet I figure if Yahoo is giving me grief over sending a letter, why can they not do something about those sons of biscuits sending massive amounts of crap SPAM like I’m getting? Why is that they don’t automatically bounce suspect email back to the sender and make them suffer of how to get this crap to the senders they are trying to send it to?

I know that most people say I should ignore it, but after waiting patiently for 6 months and STILL getting at least 25 of these SPAMS per day, I’m losing my patience. Short of just getting a new Yahoo email account, does anyone have any suggestions on how to stop my spam? I would have been okay just getting 10 SPAMS per day, but after waiting 6 months and still getting about 25 SPAMS a day with no reduction in the SPAM I'm getting in 6 months of time is just being more than I can take. GRRRRR!!! One other thing, looking at the send date of these SPAMS, all of them have a “future” date. How can the sender send email with a "future date”?

Wilson

HOW THIS SPAM BASICALLY LOOKS IN MY SPAM FOLDER:

FROM: Gasoline Credit Card
SUBJECT: Take Control of Your Gasoline Expenses. Rewards, Discounts and More!
SENT: Wed, 3/21/12
FILE SIZE: 4KB

FROM:AddictCounselingPrograms
SUBJECT:Take Addiction Counselor Courses
SENT: Thu, 3/22/12
FILE SIZE:4KB

FROM: ? WE'RE OVERSTOCKED ?
SUBJECT: ? ? Amazon Kindle3 SOLD for only $8.76! GET ONE NOW!
SENT:Fri, 3/30/12
FILE SIZE:11KB

FROM: Walmart Offer Confirmation #WM-27756
SUBJECT: ?.Congratulations.? $1,000 Walmart Gift Card
SENT: Fri, 3/30/12
FILE SIZE:17KB

FROM: **Crédi-t Rè?ort C(ent,er
SUBJECT: New Cre?it Scor,e Update!
SENT:Fri, 3/30/12
FILE SIZE: 8KB

FROM:CONGRATULATIONS!!!
SUBJECT:Approval - An Orchard Bank Mastercard offer for you!
SENT:Fri, 3/30/12
FILE SIZE:8KB

 

[Orlandude]

Click the little box to the left of each one of them and then click the SPAM button up top of your e-mail page. In the future, Yahoo will automatically send them to the SPAM folder or delete...whatever you want. You can set that up in the mail settings section. I did this and hardly get any SPAM anymore. It is all automatically sent to my SPAM folder, not my e-mail.

 

[star-warrior]

25 a day doesn't sound like much. In the past I'd get about 800 a day. It was frustrating. Does Yahoo! not have spam filters?

 

[WestCoastWilson]

Thanks Orlandude, and Star-warrior.

In my case, I have a SPAM folder and that is where my problem is , it is with the SPAM folder and not my regular inbox.

Orlandude, I know the SPAM button that you are talking about, but you only have that option when the SPAM is in your inbox. I’m trying to stop the SPAM from coming into my SPAM folder. Yet the only reason why I can’t use the delete all SPAM feature (when it comes to the SPAM folder option), is that 1% of the time, I get legitimate email that somehow accidentally gets put into that folder by the Yahoo email server.

Star-warrior, I would have got a brand new email account if I was getting 800 SPAMS per day. YIKES!!! I don’t know how you dealt with that. The options to reducing SPAM with Yahoo mail are limited. You have settings such as the option to delete all your email that the Yahoo email server “thinks” is SPAM or keep your SPAM email set in the default mode, which puts all SPAM that the Yahoo email server “thinks” is SPAM (which you can look at whenever you want, just depending on if you do not have it set up as an auto delete or a timed SPAM email deletion day set-up). Then you have the option (when SPAM is in your actual inbox, to mark it as SPAM). Thus far, that is the only thing I know that Yahoo provides as SPAM protection. Yet all-in-all, I may just end up getting a brand new email account, since I have been having this trouble for over 6 months now with getting about 25 SPAM emails daily. GRRRRR!!!

Wilson

 

[palbert]

I seriously recommend YAHOO PLUS and HOTMAIL PLUS. They each cost about $20/yr but easily worth it. Plus check all settings on your browser mail settings. Spam is just not a problem.

 

[star-warrior]

I used to have a small website with my email across each page. Gone are those days, but the email address carried on right up until the year before last - well over a decade. It was probably in every major spammer's list, and the only way to deal with it was to ask anyone writing to me as a real person to put code words into the title, so I could filter those out of the spam.

I'd leave the account for several weeks, months even, before sitting down on a Sunday and just select and delete batches of 200 one at a time. Once, I sat and counted 49 separate select and delete operations. It was hell tedious.

I finally hit on a way of reducing spam, just by having Gmail download everything in my inbox and let their filter fish out the not spam stuff and autodelete the rest. Not sure if Yahoo! Mail will let you do that on their free service though.

 

[GamerBear]

I am getting the same thing on my Verizon account and so I have no idea why SPAM is on the rise. The addresses all end in .info and they are a different email all the time so I have no idea how to block email address from .info.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

Yahoo I think is notorious for getting hacked (the company, AND individuals using them). I've had a couple of friends with Yahoo e-mail who have been hacked and were sending me Viagra ad's without them knowing it.

Many sites won't accept e-mail from Yahoo because so many people used to use them to send spam.

I would switch to Gmail as a first choice, and Hotmail as a second choice for a better, free e-mail provider.

Also, be VERY careful whom you give your e-mail address out to. A LOT of major businesses sell their customers e-mail addresses, and then you get put on major spam lists.

If you're one who likes to Forward e-mails, BCC: (BLIND Carbon Copy) your friends instead of CC: (Carbon Copy).

Also don't fall for those stupid chain letters... "If you send this to 100 people you will win a free case of Coke" type crap.

Treat your e-mail address like a social security number.

Multiple e-mail accounts don't hurt either... I use one to sign up on questionable sites (porn...+), 1 for family, 1 for friends, and 1 for work related stuff, each through a different site in case one goes down.

 

[Alistair]

All of the spam emails that I get in my Yahoo inbox come with someone else email address as the receiver and not mine. Are they forwarded from that account and is there a way to block forwarded emails?

 

[WestCoastWilson]

Thanks Guys for your great comments, suggestions, and feedback.

I used to have this same problem with another one of my Yahoo email accounts back in the early 2000's, but after a couple of years of blocking up to almost 500 email addresses and set up to automatically send certain screened emails directly to my trash folder, I was able to get that account under control where I only get about 10 SPAMS per week nowadays in that email account). Since I did not want to give up that email account, since I had used that email account for far too many years.

Borg69unimatrix, over the years, I tired some of your suggestions, but they did not work in my case.

Yet what I have decided to do with this email account is, is to get a brand new email account, move all of my old email (about 500 emails) over to the new email account, update all of my accounts associated with the old email address, and then phase out the old email account over the next 6 months (by keeping an eye on it just to make sure there are no important accounts that I may have forgot to update with the new email address, because I have a TON of online forums and groups connected to that email account). Then after six months, I’m just going to let the old email account implode.

In regards to SPAM, I wonder why these sons of biscuits keep sending out this SPAM, because the SPAM I am receiving just by looking at the subject line ALONE seeing a mass of misspelled words and odd symbols, even a blind man can see that the email is SPAM. Who buys this SPAM crap anyway??? Out of my almost 14 years of using the internet, I have never once had a family member or friend or have come across even an acquaintance that has ever purchased “anything” from a SPAM email. Other than slow download / internet navigation issues, I think SPAM is the second most hated thing about the internet. Unless people are out there purchasing things via SPAM right and left, that I don't know about, I would have thought that SPAM of this super poor quality would have died years ago . . . Now with that being said, I’m only talking about that cheezy looking email SPAM that you know from 10 miles away that it is SPAM and you know that you should not open it and you know that you will automatically delete it on sight. Thus is my problem, where I seem to exclusively receive this badly worded cheezy SPAM. I get this same cheezy SPAM in some of my other email accounts, yet I would venture to guess that I only get maybe 20 to 30 per week out of all of my email accounts combined (not including this particular email account where I’m getting about 25 SPAMs a day), but I have about 10 email accounts all sorted out by various needs . . . i.e. I have an email account just for my family, I have one just for friends, I have several just for various online groups and forums I below to, then I have one just for when I have to give someone my email address for miscellaneous reasons (which I purposely got a Gmail account for, and I do not have SPAM troubles there).

Thanks again, Guys!!!

Wilson

 

[Britguy]

I've got an answer for you - GET RID OF YAHOO!

 

[maxpowr9]

Yahoo! is perhaps the most inept "tech" company out there. I would never use yahoo for anything of serious value. TBH, I would not be surprised if they were the ones supplying said spam anyways.

 

[Bry Bry]

Yes why not get gmail or something? I've had an account on there since gmail first came out and I've yet to experience spam that didn't go directly to my spam folder.

 

[FuryOfFirestorm]

When I used to have a yahoo account, I kept getting dozens of spam a day, even with the spam blockers and security settings at max. I was even getting spam from my own yahoo address!

Now I use gmail, and I'll receive no more than 3 spam a day. I've yet to see a single letter from a Nigerian Prince or an ad for "M@X1MUM 3R3KT10N2!"

 

[gdude30]

Even comcast at least puts the little spam it gets in the spam folder. I created multiple accounts in the past with Yahoo and got spam instantly without even signing up or adding anything. I have had my yahoo accounts hacked several times too. Go with gmail much better.

Also you can only got POP access with Yahoo Plus which is bull because aol and gmail allow access to that for free. iPhone was a special deal though. I still use my yahoo accounts. But I have a funny notification for it to express how I feel about it.

 

[roadtripboy]

It's off topic...but I was surprised to learn my sister's AT&T DSL uses Yahoo for it's email accounts.

 

[WestCoastWilson]

It's off topic...but I was surprised to learn my sister's AT&T DSL uses Yahoo for it's email accounts.

Roadtripboy, I had Yahoo for my email accounts when I had AT&T Yahoo DSL. Yet due the the crappy quality of DSL service, the very rude telephone customer service I often received and one very, very rude AT&T service technician that came to my house, I got rid of AT&T Yahoo DSL back in 2007. I HATE AT&T Yahoo DSL! I switched to Time Warner Cable in 2007, and I am 99% overall happy with them. I would not recommend AT&T Yahoo DSL to my worse enemy!

Wilson