**** e-mail

[BB_TX]

How do I get rid of it? I have always been very careful not to open e-mail when I did not recognize the name. I would simply delete it. But I accidentally opened one whose text left no doubt it was advertising a **** site. It had a link which it said you could click on if you had received this e-mail in error. However, when I clicked on it, it opened a **** site. When I tried to close it, it opened another one. This happened 3 more times before it finally closed. Now I am being bombarded by e-mail for more **** sites. Apparently my e-mail address was distributed to all these perverts. Help. How do I stop it?

 

[Knight9]

Check out <A target="_blank" HREF=http://spam.abuse.net/> Spam Abuse </A>. It will help you with what to do and what NOT to do with spam email like this.

Kevin

 

[Boondox]

Something similar happened to me. Here's what I did:
1. Opened a Yahoo account for free
2. Notified my ISP that I wanted to temporarily close my email account, but would pay for it and would want it reactivated in two months
3. Notified all my friends who sent me email to use the Yahoo account for a few weeks
4. Any email sent to the old account would get the "undeliverable: account does not exist" response from the ISP. When this happens a robot nukes that "bad" account. Eventually you get auto-removed from all those spammers.
5. After two months, I had my ISP reactivate my original email address. 95% of the spam was gone by then.

If you have an AOL account you have several more options. Good luck!

Pete

 

[gws]

The simple answer is you cant. Filter on content of email for various vulgar words is your best solution.
You use yahoo for email or have multi email accounts but whatever email account you use the most and in public places will end up on a spam list of one sort or another. Changing accounts just means you will take a little longer to get spam and you annoy all your friends who send you email also.

Filter and learn to live with it.

 

[pennwalk]

Sometimes it seems like if you fight it it just makes it worse. Here are some other ideas./w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif

Give up the net and get back into TV.

Change your name and leave town.

Take up a hobby like tractors and spend more time in the seat.

Learn to like ****.

Chris

 

[TerryinMD]

Believe it or not, me and a bunch of coworkers had been receiving this type of "junk" mail here at work. Lord only knows how they got our work email addresses, but they did. I complained to our company spaminators/security and was shocked to learn that there was not much they could/would do. /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

Most of these sites have a way to remove your email address and as I found out, the addresses appeared to be not valid. I tried and tried to unsuscribe and sent messages and spoke on the phone to our network security people. I tried to do a traceroute and had little success. /w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif

Eventually, the problem disappeared (took about a month). So one of two things happened, the company security people finally got enough complaints to have them react or one of my unsuscribes did work. Don't know, but as long as I don't get their junk mail, I'm happy. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif Actually, one of my bigger concerns was accidently opening one of those sites here at work and getting PC'ed or busted by the security ****'s for looking at **** in the officeplace. /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif Don't need any of that for being unattentive.

Terry

 

[DocHeb]

Any attempts to "unsubscribe" just confirms that they have hit a valid email address, and your address gets sold as "valid".

The suggestion for temporarily closing your site may help, if your ISP is cooperative.

If you're using IE 5.0 or higher, (the only mail service I'm familiar with) you can "block senders" using the Message/Block Sender menu. Then look at Tools/MessageRules/Mail/BlockedSenders. You can modify the blocked sender rule to block any message from an individual, or a domain (eg: ****.com). These messages will be deleted. After a while they will give up.

 

[MikePA]

Some email programs allow you to scan the subject line for certain words and automatically send them to the delete file.

 

[JoeR]

I get those e-mails too... I clicked on the remove, and the next day I received an e-mail with graphic material in the HTML portion of the message! Unbelievable!

I stopped trying to use the remove feature and just delete them. I noticed the amount of e-mail is starting to slow down.

Good Luck!

Joe

 

[MDNY]

Unsubscribe just doesn't work. I use the filtering method in IE6 to remove them into the deleted items folder. Make sure you use the key word (carefully) or the senders address.

I know that if you go the delete route it does confirm and you are kissed. I actually had to change me email address and deacvtivate the original address they assigned me, that I never used. Somehow it wound up on the wrong list and kept getting the wrong stuff.

I don't mind adds that I sign up for, but not material I didn't. Whenever I visit a site or register I always check off the do not share my info or email with anyone, and I keep a log of who has my email address.