How do you tackle email spam ?

raksrules

raksrules

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Lately I have been receiving a lot of email spam on almost all of my email accounts. It is mostly realty based ads and has mobile number of the person to contact for some 2BHk flat and all.
I also receive those ads for cities that are nowhere close to where i live and have never searched for.
I know what most people would do is flag them as spam and expect it wont return but then many a times a different ad comes from a different id and it continues.
We cannot do much about those "get bigger and perform better tonight" and "local lonely ladies who want me" ads but for local ones we can
Getting pissed off due to this, i have started to get back to them in my way.
Whenever i get such ads, the problem is that many a times there is no unsubscribe link and if it is there, it does not convert into an unsubscription. Replying does not work as it always bounces.
I now create olx ads using their phone number for some lucrative product like iPhone or iPad or samsung phone and price it cheap and that's it. No need to login to olx or anything and they do not confirm the phone number or do any such thing. The ads usually go live in couple of hours. Now they may be receiving calls from potential buyers to buy those devices.

Anything else anyone does to tackle them ?
 
I was thinking of subscribing such nasty email spammers to random sites that have a subscribe button in them. For mobile numbers I wish there was some app with option to block such messages depending on sender no.

In my case I get such unwanted mails from my bank ICICI. Stupid people spam my Gmail account with emails of properties in Mumbai, Karjat etc. Probably they get money from builders or have some loan understanding with them. :mad:
 
Yahoo's filter is both good and terrible at times. I have got some genuine mails which gmail puts into spam but yahoo doesn't. Downside is there are spam which is cleared by gmail, yahoo ends up retaining them.
That said, most of the spam in todays age is via some subscription list. I get a ton of mail from digitalmailers or something -- turns out they are a part/using the email from Timesjobs.com. Deleting/marking as spam did not work as the id changes (only the via shows digitalmailers). So now I try and create filters within gmail:
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6579?hl=en
and mark them to be deleted automatically
 
IMO, Yahoo's spam filtering ability is mostly hit and miss type. Try outlook.com, it has option to import mails from Yahoo. And once you migrate, restrict using this new email only to contacts you know.
 
Spamcop. Webhosts take spam complaints quite seriously. Spamcop automates this whole process of forwarding email headers to the right contact at a webhost based on the originating IP. I've gotten quite a few spammers kicked off their servers. I hope the web hosts aren't refunding them, so you're hitting them financially if not putting a downtime in their operations while they search for a new host. There should've been a system where domain registrars take action in concert with web hosting complaints; right now domain registrars don't seem as concerned.

The biggest nuisance is this company called Interspire that makes this useless email marketing tool that every Indian spammer is using. Its very spammer friendly and offers a 'subscribed user' absolutely no control on his subscription. The only option you have is an unsubscribe which simply flags your email ID for unsubscription, but spammers can choose to ignore/reset all flags.
 
I even have concerns about clicking the Unsubscription link. Because i don't know whether it is really meant for unsubscription or it acts as a confirmation to the spammers that my email id is legit and this will mean i will receive even more spam now.
 
Crazy_Eddy said:
Spamcop. Webhosts take spam complaints quite seriously. Spamcop automates this whole process of forwarding email headers to the right contact at a webhost based on the originating IP. I've gotten quite a few spammers kicked off their servers. I hope the web hosts aren't refunding them, so you're hitting them financially if not putting a downtime in their operations while they search for a new host. There should've been a system where domain registrars take action in concert with web hosting complaints; right now domain registrars don't seem as concerned.
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I use yahoo for most of my stuff though I have gmail and outlook accounts. just because I've been using yahoo for more than 10 years now and dont want to change. as a result I get shit loads of spam which are on behalf of many companies even like hsbc, citibank and so on... I think its time I report them to spamcop.
 
booo said:
I use yahoo for most of my stuff though I have gmail and outlook accounts. just because I've been using yahoo for more than 10 years now and dont want to change. as a result I get shit loads of spam which are on behalf of many companies even like hsbc, citibank and so on... I think its time I report them to spamcop.
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Well, HSBC, CITI et al are very smart. Hidden within their webpages (online logon) and the account opening forms are golden lines which go along these lines - Yes, please send me third party mailers.
 
Spam? What is that?

My friend from the Nigerian Royal Family is pleased to announce that all of you have won 2989834989 Bajillion Croons and he simply needs your bank account number to transfer the money. He is an honest person and if you send him your banking passwords he will double that amount as a reward for your trustworthiness.

Also a long lost uncle of said Nigerian Prince is stranded in Guatemala where he was mugged. If you send him half your savings right now, he will reward you with so much more.

Lastly, are you interested in a piece of sea facing land that I have for sale in Greater Noida? I can get you rates that are unheard of, literally.

:D
 
raksrules said:
I even have concerns about clicking the Unsubscription link. Because i don't know whether it is really meant for unsubscription or it acts as a confirmation to the spammers that my email id is legit and this will mean i will receive even more spam now.
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Seriously. Happened to me a few times. Clicked on Unsubscribe, and it had no effect on spam.
 
@raksrules just continue marking unwanted emails as spam and over a period of time all that you will get in your inbox is clean and desired mails. Worked for me.
Also unsubscribe from all the undesired and untrusted mailers.
IMHO no need for any third party to be involved.
 
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