You guys are making this way harder than it needs to be.
Get yourself a gmail account. They do a phenomenal job of filtering out
the spam. If you want to keep your current email address, forward it to
your new gmail account.
Nobody does email better than Google right now. Start enjoying it.
-Paul
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Randall <TR3driver@ca.rr.com> wrote:
> > either their unsubscribe link is blank or it takes me to a site that
> > bitdefender says b donb t go there, buddyb probably wouldnb t do
> > anything but tell them I have an active address anyway...
>
> Right. Never unsubscribe from anything that you didn't subscribe to in the
> first place; and never click on any links in the spam.
> Verified addresses are worth money, so any kind of a response from you
> guarantees that the spammer will be selling your email
> address to other spammers for years to come.
>
> And the links very often lead to various kinds of malware attacks, virus
> downloads and such. Easy way to get infected.
>
> > Anyone have a way to stop this... Ib m probably getting 30
> > to 40 a day
>
> Ok, this is really tedious, and takes time to start working. But it does
> work
> eventually. You have to learn how to first find and
> then read the email header, so you can find what IP address supplied the
> spam.
> In Outlook 2003, click on Tools/Options, then copy
> the text from the little window into a new text file.
>
> Now look up that IP address on one of the many sites that will do a
> reverse IP
> lookup for you, to find the ISP that owns the address
> that provided the spam.
>
> If it's a reputable ISP (or located in a country where you might want to
> correspond with a resident), then fire off an email to the
> "abuse" email address listed with a copy to the "admin". State your case
> simply and politely, just "I received unsolicited
> commercial email (spam) from a site in your domain. Please take
> appropriate
> steps to ensure this does not happen again."; and
> include the original header and message (without attachments or HTML).
> Typically you won't get anything back except maybe a canned
> "Your complaint has been received"; but typically you won't hear from that
> spammer again either.
>
> More often, it will be one of the many "spam havens" in places like Russia
> or
> Nigeria. In that case, just set up a rule that moves
> anything from that block of IP addresses to your spam folder. They will
> keep
> spamming you for awhile, but eventually quit when they
> never get a response. At the peak, I had probably 150 such rules and
> hundreds
> of spams a week, but now I get almost no spam at all
> (maybe 2 or 3 per week). In the meantime, you'll have to scan the folder
> occasionally for messages that weren't spam, and possibly
> delete the associated rule. Some honest people use the same ISPs that
> harbor
> spammers, so this is only a 99% solution, not 100%.
>
> Randall
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