Anyone know how to stop spamers? (e-mails)

[ashdavid]

I get countless e-mails everyday, they are all ads or promotions for some piece of crap that I don't want. I block there e-mail and IP address, but they just keep comming b/c the addresses and IP's keep changing. Anyone know how to get rid of them for good?

[Eagle]

Change your email address. Then quit signing up for everthing you run across. And when you do fill out an online form for something look at all the check box and uncheck the ones that say to email you things. Don't give your email to every website you go to.

[Jaime]

I use a gmail account which filters most spam, I also have an outlook email and there I use an anti spam program called Ihatespam (now called Ninja), it is also extremely effective. That couple with the advice given above should put you in the clear.

[Belmondo]

I have an Earthlink account, and they have spam-blocking available. It does filter out known spam, and lets email through for people in my address book. Everything else goes into a folder called 'Suspect Email.' It's a relatively simple matter of going through that a cuople times a day and deleting most of it. I'm not sure it really aves me any time, though. There really isn't that much 'Known Spam,' andit's pretty easy to spot anyway.

[20droger]

I get countless e-mails everyday, they are all ads or promotions for some piece of crap that I don't want. I block there e-mail and IP address, but they just keep comming b/c the addresses and IP's keep changing. Anyone know how to get rid of them for good?
It's a two-step process:

1: Track down their physical location.
2: Use a low-yield nuclear device to eliminate them.

Nothing else will work!

The only thing that ticks me off more than email spammers are fax spammers. I've had to resort to very unethical means to stop some of them.

[20droger]

I have an Earthlink account, and they have spam-blocking available. It does filter out known spam, and lets email through for people in my address book. Everything else goes into a folder called 'Suspect Email.' It's a relatively simple matter of going through that a cuople times a day and deleting most of it. I'm not sure it really aves me any time, though. There really isn't that much 'Known Spam,' andit's pretty easy to spot anyway.
What?

You don't want to refinance you home with a lender you've never heard of?
You don't want to buy medications from a source of unproven quality?
You don't wish to improve your love life?
You refuse to help someone in Nigeria with a minor fiscal problem?

What kind of person are you?!!

[rhys]

Two things you can do:
1. Keep your personal email for friends and family only and use a throwaway Yahoo/Hotmail account for online vendors etc.
2. Obtain a hostname, use a different email address for each online transaction such as 10Jan2006-funkybatteriesdotcom@yourhostname.org. Then you'll know who's selling your email addresses to spammers and can pass the information on to the public prosecutor :D

[joegolf68]

Congress needs to address this much as they did with telemarketers. My phone rarely rings now unless it is someone I know. When it is a marketer, from someone I do business with, I ask them to remove my number. Now, if we can only get the politicians to eliminate their phone spam, and that from annoying charities, the phone is back to our own ownership. Same can happen for much of spam, originating here in the US, and the UN could work out an international agreement also. We can only wish.

[Moppie]

The only thing that ticks me off more than email spammers are fax spammers. I've had to resort to very unethical means to stop some of them.



I have a fax spammer that has been ringing my home number for about the last 18 months. If I had actualy had a fax I might be interested in what he's selling.

Im tempted to set up faxablity on the PC one day, anyone know where I can get a low yield nuclear device?

[rhys]

I have a fax spammer that has been ringing my home number for about the last 18 months. If I had actualy had a fax I might be interested in what he's selling.

Im tempted to set up faxablity on the PC one day, anyone know where I can get a low yield nuclear device?

That's environmentally unfriendly. Try something a little more bio-degradable. Anthrax is pretty good.

[joeseph]

I have a fax spammer that has been ringing my home number for about the last 18 months.
can you do a call divert? if yer quick enough, redirect the call thru to your work fax & see what number it originated from. then look 'em up in the whitepages and send the fax's back with a note attached...

back to e-mail spam, I work for a Telco that has next to nill spam stopping for staff - buckets and buckets of the stuff every day. I finally restored some sanity after installing a freeware plug-in for Outlook called Spambayes that you "train" what's likely spam, & what's not. Seems to cut down a whole heap so I'd give it the thumbs up.

[Bob_A]

Never publish your email addy on the web, and try the Cloudmark Desktop subscription service ($39.95/year) as an Outlook add-in. Cloudmark took a different approach to clearing spam from your inbox. They don't have any filters or algorithms, but instead rely on a community of over a million subscribers, and they rank you according to how accurate you are. I start up Outlook and watch the emails come in, then get auto-deleted from my inbox ... very cool.

[kram]

My multi-step process:
- seperate account to just give to anyone who I dont care to receive mails from
- another account just for tracking online purchases and website names and addresses
- third account to share with friends

I send reminders to some friends who keep sending me forwards or marking me in cc on their forwards. That's a great way to reap email addresses. Just imagine 40 forwards with a dozen names.

All my email accounts are on gmail which seems to filter spam reasonably well. Do I still get spam mails in all three accounts. Yes, but things are getting better.

And yes, NEVER respond to a spam mail's 'unsubscribe'. Its just a great way to confirm the email address is for real!!

[ashdavid]

The thing is I have only used my e-mail address for a few forums that I frequent. Other than that I don't sign up for anything period. I don't how they got it and the scary part is that the titles are addressed of that of people who I have recently have been e-mailing! When I e-mail a new person the title will change to there name ,among others. It is as if they are scanning my outgoing e-mails, is this just a coincidence?

[20droger]

Sounds like you have a spyware infection.