Lots of Spam in Yahoo Mail (email, graphics, gmail, how to)

[cindycat]

I'm used to having a few spam emails every day in my Yahoo account but in the last two weeks, I've been getting more than 30 a day. Today so far it's been 42. The system catches them and puts them in the Spam folder but I don't understand why there are so many...maybe I clicked on the wrong thing...

[NHDave]

Simple, your email address has found its way onto more spam mailing lists. It was likely sold as part of a large list.

[reed303]

Do these spam emails look similar in style and format ?

Recently I started getting spam that, while they looked like they were from different senders, the style and formats were suspiciously similar (mostly text with colored boxes & borders, no graphics). In checking the message headers, it appears they all originate from the same IP address.

Often I get the same spam twice. It appears I got listed twice in the spammer's list.

So I created a filter in my reader (Thunderbird) to delete any emails from that IP. Haven't seen any since.

[cindycat]

Originally Posted by reed303

Do these spam emails look similar in style and format ?

Recently I started getting spam that, while they looked like they were from different senders, the style and formats were suspiciously similar (mostly text with colored boxes & borders, no graphics). In checking the message headers, it appears they all originate from the same IP address.

Often I get the same spam twice. It appears I got listed twice in the spammer's list.

So I created a filter in my reader (Thunderbird) to delete any emails from that IP. Haven't seen any since.

OK, so today I decided to sit down and check the IP addresses...but I'm an old broad, with no grandchildren to help. I've "Googled" a bit but still can't figure it out. Can you tell me simply, gently, how to find/recognize the IP address? Thanks.

[reed303]

Here is how it works in Thunderbird email reader. Others should be similar. Basically the sender's IP is in the "message header" of the subject email.

First, select a specific email in question. Then in the toolbar, select View, then Headers, select All. You should see the complete header info. Look for the oldest "Received from" entry that shows who sent the email. An IP address should appear in that line, like [149.62.144.137] (which happens to be the latest IP that is spamming me).

Then create a filter with "Received contains [149.62.144" (or what ever you found in your header)
Leave off the last section so the filter catches the whole range of sub-addresses they will use.

Hope this works for you. I seem to have stopped getting spam from the 1st IP range, now getting spam from a second range as above. If you enable Filter Logging, you can see when the filter has worked.

Good Luck..........

[Bo]

Inadequate spam filtering is why I switched my everyday email provider from Yahoo to Gmail, early in the 2000s.