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It's not the email provider that is at fault, they don't send spam to their own clients.
Spam comes from other places that have your email address. How did they get your email is what you have to ask yourself.
Some of the reasons could be through no fault of yours. It could be something you bought online from a company that shared your info. It could be that you signed up for something and gave your email address, it could be a lot of things. The spammers got your email somehow. Then those people share with other spammers.
If you want to stop it on your end and send it the junk folder, there are various ways, at the server level and on the client level, with specialized software etc. It all depends on how you read your email.
Unless I missed it, you also never mentioned what email provider you have.
How do you read email? Through a web browser or dedicated software?
Very few people have the email address I am referring to since it is a biz email. And somehow whatever spam email is in there, is also in my personal one. Odd to me. I don't buy online using the other email. I read it thru the webmail provided by Spectrum.
Now I have 6 more spams in that biz email. Some doubles. And I have 4 in my personal email which are the same spam emails that are in my other one.
Gmail does an alright job. I also put a bunch in the spam dumpster. Once in a while the filter stops filtering, so unsubscribe from the marketing emails is something I have been trying to mitigate.
Very few people have the email address I am referring to since it is a biz email. And somehow whatever spam email is in there, is also in my personal one. Odd to me. I don't buy online using the other email. I read it thru the webmail provided by Spectrum.
Now I have 6 more spams in that biz email. Some doubles. And I have 4 in my personal email which are the same spam emails that are in my other one.
Please explain biz email?
You don't have to buy online for someone to have your email. All you have to do is type that email into a form of any kind. When you sign up for anything, when you register for anything, City Data included, someone has your email. Not everyone respects privacy as they should. Even cookies can reveal your email without you submitting anything to anybody. You talk of 6 and 4 spam emails, that doesn't sound like much to me. Call yourself lucky.
In my experience, it's almost impossible to avoid ALL spam. Therefore, you filter it out, that is what people do. That is why everyone has a "junk" folder in their email. It's a fact of life.
Depending on the provider, webmail may or may not have good spam filtering. If you want to block or filter more of it, use an email client. There are some good free ones. I personally stay away from ISP provided emails like Spectrum. Get an email that you can keep for life, not one that's tied to an ISP.
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I am getting spammed to no end by Yahoo! Have noticed a steady uptick in the past 6 months. It’s getting so bad that I’m considering shutting it down.
I am getting spammed to no end by Yahoo! Have noticed a steady uptick in the past 6 months. It’s getting so bad that I’m considering shutting it down.
Just to clarify:
Do you have a Yahoo account,?
or does the spam come from a Yahoo account,?
or both?
I have noticed that anyone with a Hotmail account can't email me at Gmail. I wonder if this is due to Hotmail being used by spammers, or it Google just doesn't like Microsoft :LoL:
GGuerra is providing great advice here. The fact that you are getting identical spam in 2 separate accounts tells me this is a you problem. You gave someone an address you shouldn't have. or someone is flat out messing with you.
This is not the fault of whatever provider you are using.
As GG already asked: how are you reading your email.
Very few people have the email address I am referring to since it is a biz email. And somehow whatever spam email is in there, is also in my personal one. Odd to me. I don't buy online using the other email. I read it thru the webmail provided by Spectrum.
Now I have 6 more spams in that biz email. Some doubles. And I have 4 in my personal email which are the same spam emails that are in my other one.
Bottom line, your email was sold or given to someone. Of course, if your email is generic enough, it can also just be guessed. Like if your name is john.smith. It's not exactly too hard to email various combinations to a specific domain.
There is no such thing as email providers without spam. Email is a communication tool. You need to provide your email address in order to communicate. Once you give that out, you are no longer in control of how that piece of information is disseminated. Email providers simply provide the infrastructure to route said mail. The difference here is who has the more effective tools to deal with SPAM or unwanted email. After all depending on what study you look at - SPAM makes up 45% or more of all email that is out there. In my experience in running email systems for organizations. It's more like 90% of all email traffic is SPAM.
I have over half a dozen personal gmail accounts. One of them I use exclusively to sign up for things or give to vendors/marketers. If I empty my SPAM folder for that account first thing in the AM, it would have about 400 at the end of the day. Especially if its Tuesday or Wednesday (for some reason, that when I get the most). One I use with friends and family, I get maybe 1 every so often.
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