If I get one more...

[grinningghost]

...e-mail telling me about naked grannies, I'm going to scream! I've done everything right, e-mail washer, message block, you name it - nothing is stopping these disgusting e-mails! Anyone else having a flood of these things lately?

 

[sharbear]

Sorry but this just made me think about Robin's grandma! LOL!

 

[HoneyPooh]

Mine have been about farm animals...ewww ewwww ewww ewww ewwww I haven't been successful in keeping them out either.

 

[grinningghost]

Originally posted by HoneyPooh
Mine have been about farm animals...ewww ewwww ewww ewww ewwww I haven't been successful in keeping them out either.

Yes, those are gross too. It makes me wonder how many people actually open some of this stuff up.

 

[ryanpatricksmom]

No naked grannies, but I've gotten the farm sl*ts e-mail....ick!
I've even gotten a few for kiddie-porn that I've reported to the authorities.

I don't think that there's anything that you can do to avoid them completely. At home, we have Comcast as our internet provider. For a few months now we have gotten solicitations for porn sites and they're not even addressed to us. One morning there were over 50, all addressed to different Comcast customers. I've called a few times to report it, and forwarded the e-mails to no avail. Let's just say they could use a little technical wizardry over at Comcast....

 

[jamsmom]

I haven't gotten those, but I do get ones about YOUNG girls. What the heck do I want with any young girl? I also get the ones decribing big and black things. I mark them as adult contect and them delete them....but more and more have different e-mail addresses that make it through.

 

[4greatboys]

I get tons to have my ***** enlarged, lol. If I ever get one they may come in handy j/k I hate all that crap. When we had AOl they had a great feature that you could block and report the spam. With OE I dont have that We do get a lot of the young girls and farm animal crap too. And now we have been getting a ton of pop ups--nothing you want to pop either.

 

[Deb in IA]

I get those p*n*s enlargment advertisements too.


I don't even have a p*n*s!!!

 

[jamsmom]

Originally posted by Deb in IA
I get those p*n*s enlargment advertisements too.


I don't even have a p*n*s!!!

I think they send them to us without that apparatus to show to someone we personally know who might need it

 

[Aprille]

Wow! I feel very lucky when I read a thread like this. I've had the same email account for over 10 years and I rarely get any spam. Seriously. Maybe 5 or 6 a year. I use the AOL feature to block spam and I'm very careful about giving out my email address.

 

[Magickndm]

I switched from MSN to Bellsouth and noticed I RARELY get unsolicited mail now, with MSN most of my mail was junk.

 

[catsrule]

Originally posted by Deb in IA
I get those p*n*s enlargment advertisements too.


I don't even have a p*n*s!!!

Me too.

 

[HugsForEeyore]

I agree about MSN emails. When I opened a new account with them (and paid good money for it!) I already had 50 spam junk emails the very first time I even looked at the email inbox. MSM sells your email address to spammers the microsecond you create one. It had never stopped, and the email accounts are totally useless, even with filters.

I have email accounts elsewhere now, with AT&T, who did not sell my address.

 

[Serena]

Do not, DO NOT, respond to those emails. It just confirms that they have a live address and it multiplies. Just delete them. Eventually they will slowly die down. I hardly ever get them anymore.

 

[grinningghost]

Originally posted by Serena
Do not, DO NOT, respond to those emails. It just confirms that they have a live address and it multiplies. Just delete them. Eventually they will slowly die down. I hardly ever get them anymore.

I agree Serena. I made the mistake of "unsubscribing" and that just made it worse. I then did the mailwasher thing and they went away for a while, and now it seems they're back. I put on message block for them, but they just keep changing their e-mail address and sending more. Really makes me mad!

 

[piratesmate]

Blocking the sender isn’t going to do much good as the spammers just keep getting new email addresses for themselves & keep using yours.

If you have OE, try this:
Go to the Message menu & choose Create Rule from Message.
In box 1, de-select what’ already checked & check “Where the Subject line contains specific words” (or “where the message body contains . . .”)
In box 2, check either Delete It or Delete from Server (scroll down to find that one).
In box 3, click “contains specific words”.
A new window pops up. Type the offensive word in the 1st box, click Add & repeat with any other words you want to avoid. Then click OK.
Also in box 3, click the word “And” and choose “Messages match any one of the criteria” from the new Window. Then click OK in both windows.

Be careful with the “Delete from Server” item. Your friends may send you something about farm horses that has nothing to do with porn and you might want to see it.

Deleted messages will show up in your Deleted Items folder & it will keep track of how many there are. You can just review who sent the stuff in you delete folder for valid address & avoid “seeing them.”

It’s not fool proof. I’ve sometimes gotten stuff that should have been filtered out. Also, I get a news letter from Ancestry.com that for some bizarre reason always gets dumped in the delete folder – and no, they don’t offer to enhance body parts for me.

Deb

 

[Dee & Greg]

I get terrible emails in my WORK email, not my personal one! I just set up a "rule" that will automatically delete emails with specific words.. my company has never made that feature public!

Thanks again!!

 

[grinningghost]

Thanks Deb, anything is worth a try.

 

[piratesmate]

Glad to help! In the beginning, I made a new rule each time I thought of one. That didn't work too well. It seems to run through the rules in order & gets tired after a while.

Dee - Doesn't your company have a mail address to which you report spam? The company I worked for didn't bother to tell us about it, but it existed. It didn't help much to be honest, but at least no one will ever think you're soliciting the stuff if you report it.

Deb

 

[dcg0317]

I would get all types of e-mails from a-z, you name I got it. I was watching tech TV one and they talked about this program called spybot. It searches your computer for all sorts of thinks and deletes them. especailly tracking cookies, that is how alot of companys get your e-mail address. It's free to download and easy to install. I run it just about everytime before I go on line, my junk mail has been cut in half, if you download don't forget to check for updates at less once a month.

http://beam.to/spybotsd

good luck everyone
Don