Tons of spam

Started by DemonessOfDeathValley, December 02, 2015, 05:30:54 PM

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DemonessOfDeathValley

I use ad blocker on my browser and I unlocked once. After I unblocked it on a single site that I frequent, I began receiving over a hundred spam emails a day from swinger, dating and other "hook up" type websites. I went some of them at first and unsubscribed. That seemed to just make it worse. Since then, I've just started emptying my spam folder. But it is annoying when I have to locate something gets put into that folder by mistake or the like.

Is there anything I can do to get these emails gone, or at least the volume of them to go down?

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Oniya

I set up filters on some of the common words in those sorts of spam-mails, and direct them straight to the trash.  You can usually filter by domain as well (such as *@hotkink.com).  There's one spam-group that always used the name 'Adrianna' - filtered to the trash.  (That one was always something like 'Did you get my message?' in the subject, with a link to some porno chat site in the body of the email.  Good thing I don't actually know anyone named Adrianna.)
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DemonessOfDeathValley

Thank you Oniya. How do I set up those filters?

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Oniya

Most email servers have a 'Settings' area.  GMail has a gear symbol for example.  Look in there for either 'Filters' or 'Blocked Addresses'.  You'll get a screen where you can select to create a filter based on any of the fields of an email (From, To, Subject, Body).  It will also give you an option of what to do with filtered mail - anything from sending it to a special folder (like if you were running a business and wanted 'ORDER' emails to be separated out), to just deleting it completely.
"Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women.~*~*~Don't think it's all been done before
And in that endeavor, laziness will not do." ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Don't think we're never gonna win this war
Robin Williams-Dead Poets Society ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Don't think your world's gonna fall apart
I do have a cause, though.  It's obscenity.  I'm for it.  - Tom Lehrer~*~All you need is your beautiful heart
O/O's Updated 5/11/21 - A/A's - Current Status! - Writing a novel - all draws for Fool of Fire up!
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DemonessOfDeathValley

Thank you. I'll look into that tomorrow.

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