I use Yahoo to access my emails & have done for many years, lately I have been receiving an unbelievable amount of Spam emails, I delete these of course but the next day I am still receiving more & more Spam. Why is this happening & is there anything I can do to stop receiving them? Many thanks in advance.
How to Stop Me from Getting Heaps of Spam Every Day
kittykat78 on 31/12/2022 - 12:15
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Yahoo offers generously 1TB storage, Gmail does 15GB, that’s why many people still using it, including me.
Gmail filters this really well.
I check the spam folder occasionally for legit stuff but there never is.
Empty spam folder……move on.
I check spam folder regularly, there are times that certain company emails goes to spam even I have unspam them many times. After awhile somehow it's fixed, but other company emails end up here too.
And yes Gmail is pretty good at this, 5 stars if they don't have the above issue.
Yahoo! data breaches almost occur more often than Ebay pricejacks. Everyone has your email to spam. Add it to gmail for good spam filters.
Might be time to setup a new email address and only use it for things you really need to e.g family& friends, banking / businesses you actively engage with, (edit: removing job search due to recruiters).
Keep the existing one active for the year to try and make sure you have updated all your key contacts to the new one.
OR
Every single email that reached your inbox, decide if you want to receive emails from them anymore and if not unsubscribe.
It only took me about 2 months to reduce the amount of stuff lending in my inbox when I did this 2 years ago.
The challenge though is making sure not to click on genuine spam which will show the email account as active and generate more spamming.
Yeah yahoo is bad….
You chose Yahoo, you chose to deal with the Spam ;)
Gmail is 1000x better for spam filtering - I have to open the spam folder to see how my Nigeria princes are coping without access to their wealth :P
Did you mark them as spam or simply deleted them?
I use the first option and never get them from those senders again. You do get new spam senders once in a while (maybe once a month for me) but just mark them as they come.
Open a new Gmail account and forward the yahoo email to it. Gmail will catch a lot of the spam for you.
If you give your old yahoo email to businesses and your new Gmail account to real people, you can filter your inbox based on what email address the emails are sent to and therefore just see the emails from real people, and not miss any of them.
I did this with my original email I made with Hotmail as a teenager. Although I have made the mistake of giving my new email to businesses when I wanted to make multiple accounts, so I can't filter by real people / businesses anymore.
You actually don't need to use forwarding for this setup have Gmail POP3 fetch the yahoo email directly from the inbox.
I think that's what I meant…. Someone else set it up for me so didn't use the right word
Just thought I would clarify cause forwarding does exist and that's a separate thing that does a similar thing.
Use disposable emails, via some of the services or by adding + to email address (may vary per provider)
Or have a personal email address and a general email address; the general email is used for non-family/government stuff. Far less spam with the personal email.
Does anyone here still use Spamcop to report junk / unsolicited emails?
Check out the program MailWasher - it has several filters to automatically delete message from you ISP server
If you receive it using some desktop/mobile email client program (not using browser), then disable “load remote images/content” setting. This way spammers will mark your email as “not read” and eventually drop you from their lists.
Businesses sell your email address so every time you use it thats a chance you take. Keep that one for purchases create a new one for banking and or other personal things like friends.
don't use yahoo mail?