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pepperami
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PostPosted: 20:33 - 01 Dec 2015    Post subject: Some advice please? Reply with quote
If I am getting unwanted e-mails that I`m sure are dodgy, how can I stop them.
I know that I must never open a suspect e-mail , but is there any more I can do to stop them coming to my e-mail address in the first place?

I have virus protection (McAfee) and it is on .


Any info/hints would be appreciated Thumbs Up
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duhawkz
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PostPosted: 21:21 - 01 Dec 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
which email client are you using?

most should have some kind of junk email option, mark it as junk and forget about it.

or just delete it and a forget about.
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mentalboy
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PostPosted: 22:37 - 01 Dec 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Not sure how much you can do from a smart phone but you should be able to block persistent offenders, once you've consigned them to junk mail.

However there are certain offenders who are not so easy to get rid of, for some reason I've had crap from Canadian Pharmacy for as long as I can remember, impossible to block permanently because every new email comes with a new address - they tend to come in rashes though and I seem to have been pox free for quite some while now Smile
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Jayy
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PostPosted: 15:15 - 02 Dec 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
I use Outlook for many years, downloaded mail to my machine rather than IMAP. I used to get spammed to fuckery for years and then I moved to Google Apps for Work, which is essentially Gmail with your own domain name.

I get about 20 spam emails a week now which don't even reach my inbox, hidden nicely away in a spam folder. Google's spam protection is industry leading, as are any of the other big cloud hosted platforms.
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iooi
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PostPosted: 16:36 - 02 Dec 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Jayy wrote:
I Google's spam protection is industry leading, as are any of the other big cloud hosted platforms.


But you also need to get into the habit of checking it on a regular basis. As its not uncommon for genuine mail to end up there....

A couple of times I have had insurance doc's end up in the spam, yet still get their marketing crap into the normal inbox.
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Jayy
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PostPosted: 18:13 - 02 Dec 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Mostly just shite in mine, you will always get the odd genuine email in there in any system though Thumbs Up
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mentalboy
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PostPosted: 19:27 - 02 Dec 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Jayy wrote:
Mostly just shite in mine, you will always get the odd genuine email in there in any system though Thumbs Up


Lol, I consider myself unlucky if I get one email a month that is junk.
A lot of the problem is caused by people giving out their email address to every Tom, Dick and Harry that asks for it, if you don't sign up for shit you don't get shit Wink
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panrider_uk
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PostPosted: 11:56 - 03 Dec 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
I always put [email protected] as my email address when dealing with companies.

Then if I start getting unwanted spam I forward that address to [email protected] - ie a black hole for emails.
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