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peter richards

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guys sorry to bring this up again , but the amount im getting atm is crazy , and the methods to get me to open it seem to be getting more and more inventive .

theres always a paper clip on the e mail , then all sorts of BS , mainly unpaid invoice , then yesterday someone was oweing me money , now today it was a message returned , which i nearly opened as ive been in contact with a few people this week .

how do they get away with this ? and is there anyway i can stop them coming in.

 

thanks peter

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What email service do you use? I use gmail and it is superb at filtering spam so i never get it, i just pop in the spam folder every few months to press delete on it all. Maybe there are some settings you can play with through your email provider?

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Trick is, don't publicise your email address anywhere for anyone. Bots capture email addresses from web pages, store them and distribute them across spamming agents. You then get pummelled with nigerians offering millions of pounds in response for a small investment in their awesome startup. The only pound you'll be getting is where the sun don't shine.

 

I had a spam problem with a really old email of mine. Deleted the account, started fresh and have never had spam ever again.

 

Since you are too far gone, you can do the following:

 

- block email addresses

- report as spam

- get a spam filtering service set up

- set up outlook rules to chuck emails with certain keywords straight into the spam folder.

 

Better yet, if you are not using a cloud email service already (I.e. Gmail, hotmail, etc), open up an Office 365 subscription and move to their services. Their spam filtering is pretty epic, like Gmail.

 

As previously said, never open an email you are certain is spam. Any images loaded in the email will identify your address as valid and will continue to spam you forever.

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