Spam

[kloofnek]

Every day I receive over a two thousand spam emails ...all for slimming supplements...within half an hour I have another three or four hundred.
This happening on my Virgin Media email account band has only been in the last week or so.
Is this happening to anyone else and how can I stop them?

[Tuvok]

With that amount I would defiantely change email address.

[Dizmo]

Try using third party software such as Microsoft Outlook (that is if you're using Windows and not Linux).

[janbee]

I used to get them when I had Norton security. I got rid of that and I've not been bothered since.
I also used to get ones from The Canadian Pharmacy, advertising Viagra type pills and also asking if I wanted to extend my pen1s by 3". That would be a clever trick I thought!! I'm a girly !

[kloofnek]

Have already got Outlook account.I can`t get rid of my Virgin one,as I receive important emails with it...be too much of an hassle to change .

[Dizmo]

janbee: My mum used to get those emails too. She started looking at my step dad a little funny after they started. I'm not suggesting she thought he'd been looking for viagra. I think she was looking at his member and thinking 'mmmh an extra 3 inches".... lol

[Dizmo]

kloofnek: Outlook should be just junking your 'junk'. We have 32 emails linked up to Outlook and get between 40,000 to 80,000 emails a day. It just gets shut of them.

[janbee]

Diz... lol

[kloofnek]

It is only my Virgin Media receiving all these weight loss emails

[jno]

do you need to stop them? If Virgin is putting them into the spam folder, can't you just ignore them?

[kloofnek]

I do just keep deleting them ...but I wnat to know why ...all of a sudden,am receiving them.Naturally,I have always received spam but for a variety of things and not so many..now..hundreds all for weight loss

[jno]

I don't know. I wish I could block everything from something called Megahookup which has been bombarding me for a week or two. But these things come and go - in a few days the slimming spambot may have concluded that you don't exist (assuming you've not responded to any of them) and just remove you from its list; that's always what's happened to me in the past.

[kjn2]

Transfer one days worth from inbox to junk file, next time the same people send an e mail to you it will go directly into the junk file and will then get deleted at a later date automatically. Also inform Virgin Media, I would also change my password just as an extra security. Hadno probshere and am on VM also.

[sandyRoe]

janbee, have you got the address for that 'extension' advert?

[HansUrbancka]

The volume of spam which you are getting requires the action as stipulated by Tuvok....^^^......// "With that amount I would definitely change email address". //

Surely you have a 'Contact List' and could advise all persons listed of a new E/mail address.

Contact Virgin and ask for advice on the matter.

I can only guess the reason you are receiving unwanted e/mails is because at some stage you may have given your address to an untrustworthy site.

Hans.

[SlackAlice]

I'm with Virginmedia and I'm not getting any spam emails for weight loss or slimming supplements. Does that mean I'm already slim enough or do they realise that I'm beyond all hope.

My email addy ends in @ntlworld.com, so I wonder if that makes a difference?