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Spam is illegal, saddly, not enforced. It's called "cost-spending."
I have come to the conclusion that people are out to just bother me since I get e-mails like this:
No link to the product, just 2 of these, every day, from the same spammer who I cannot block becase they have a bot setup to register a random Yahoo account every day.Quote:
Subject: xxhh Make ur mansword bihhggg
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I recommend getting a separate hotmail or yahoo mail account to use whenever you sign up for anything. If someone decides to send you 6Mb of junk, you will never have to look at it and the site where you got the account from will either delete it all or tell you that you've exceeded your limit. When this happens, I just go there real quick, hit the "select all" button and delete it all myself. No need for sometimes expensive spam protection programs that mostly don't work!
I do use seperate e-mail accounts, what bother sme is the one that gets spammed is personal, and it's been released to no websites.
Most anti-spam programs do not work, they filter out wanted e-mails, and some (ie AOLs) spam you more.
And let us not forget our own universities selling our information. Case in point, when I attended the University of Central Florida I gave them an email address for receiving various information from the school as it came out. As a rule i never enter correct information regarding myself online, and previously I had never used that account along with my real name. Well, a few weeks into the semester i started getting spam with my name in the subject line, about half of it junk for student credit cards! There was also quite a bit for satellite television service. A few months later, the same tv service began calling my parents house, also information I had to give to the school! Before that school I had never gotten spam in that account, nor solicitous phone calls at my parents house. I thought it was very unfortunate that my own university had literally sold me out. Thx lots ucf.
Lucky for me, all Universities around me don't do things like that -- I looked into it.
Ah the joys of Canada life :D.
Another thing you can do, for those who have viable internet email with up to 5 accounts is to never use your master account as email. What you do is go to that ISP's member service page and log in using your master account, then going into Account Management or whatever, and make another email account using one of the multiple accounts you have. This way, if you ever start getting spam, just change that subaccount to something else. I've done this many times when it gets out of hand and a few months later, I go back and try the email again. They want to spam you with unwanted and unsolicited email but they won't keep you around if mail keeps getting bounced back to them.
LOL, I used to work for a Telemarketing company. I made about 800 phone calls in one day. It was wild. Because out of 800 about 7 people will donate or buy something. The others cuss you out, make up stories, whatever. That was the most amusing part of it. Given I only did it for about 4 months during college, it was an experiance.
I think that the best way to get rid of spam mail in you e-mail is set the filter to Exclusive, I know hotmail has this, but I dont think yahoo does. I never used anything other that Outlook and hotmail. :flip: spam. Occasionaly one will slip through and they are always telling me I've won a million dollars or "Kris get pr0n now! click here!" :)
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Originally posted here by Vorlin
They want to spam you with unwanted and unsolicited email but they won't keep you around if mail keeps getting bounced back to them.
True...but in most instances the mail isn't getting bounced back to them. Seeing as they normally use a dodgy SMTP server, or, as Drakain Zeil said, use bots to create dodgy accounts daily and spam us all to hell! :)
All this spam getting bounced around pointlessly actually "DDoS'd" the leading two Australian ISP's mail servers, Telstra and Optus....
did it come with free gator software?
Anoter thing I've just thought of is www.dot.tk's e-mail forwarding, just register an account and it will send any mail recived there to the new adress, ex. "[email protected]" >> "[email protected]", however, I'm not too sure about relyablity... however if you get spamed too much just drop the adress and change it.