Stopping Spam

[Biff]

I'm getting email that I never asked for, about financial investments. At the end it says to remove from mailing list return with subject "remove". I've done this a number of times but always get it returned as undeliverable. Any ideas would be great http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[jad1097]

If you use OE5 you could right click on the header and select properties and track down where it came from.

[Biff]

Thanks for the reply. I do use OE5, I can get the email address but when I send it comes back with error, Reason: Recipient refused.

[chipbgt]

IN Outlook you can choose to block the sender which will help with repeat offenders....and I dont suggest responding to it, especially if its an obscure thing you have never heard of..you might just be validating your email address for them so they can sell it to other companies...spam is such a pain.

[jad1097]

Oh ok,I see now. The only thing I think you can do then is complain to your ISP or/and theirs. Or go yo their site and e-mail them there and complain and be sure to advise them you will take legal action if you are not removed from their list.

[socalgal]

Chipbgt's right, if you respond, it just lets the spammers know that your email account is active, hence.. more spam.

[jad1097]

Yes he is correct, I forgot about that. I just delete them myself.

[U-96]

Also, don't even open them. A read-receipt notice or (if you can open mail in HTML format) a web bug will similarly validate your email address in their database.

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[desmocat]

I guess I can count myself as lucky, because my ISP can now block spam down to the address that it comes from. AHHHH, no junk is good junk..I don't know if it is a commercial program or something that they came up with themselves.

[Romulus2]

It's a strange contrast for me:

My AOL email account (which I pay for) is totally buried in spam, despite my letters to AOL.

My humble Hotmail email account (which I do not pay for) receives absolutely NO spam whatsoever!

[chipbgt]

Ha....give it time my good man....you could rename mine sendspamhere@hotmail.com

[Biff]

I guess it's "dont sweat the small stuff, and spam is small stuff" annoying though eh! Thanks for all the replies http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[SysOpt]

http://www.sysopt.com/antispam.html