Unpleasant Spam

[Palustris]

Getting a lot of pornographic spam at present. I have never responded or even opened one of these things, so why are we getting so many?
Is it because I have Blocked them?

[Old_Geezer]

If you have blocked them somehow, how come you are receiving any ?

[bednobs]

i also get loads, but never see them unless i look in my spam folder

[Prudie]

We have also started getting lots of this on our Tiscali account in the last couple of months - never had it before in years. It automatically goes to our MS Outlook junk folder but somehow they are getting through Tiscali's spam filter.

[TheChair]

There is nothing personal about it. Spam comes in waves, usually to random addresses.

[Palustris]

Thanks. Just found another half a dozen.
Wiped them without opening as usual.
Wish the Filters worked, but as far as I can see they only stop the first Email which contains the flagged term. Any others after that still get through.

[237SJ]

I have started getting them too - not on my BT address but my Yahoo one (Yahoo`s security is iffy anyway) There is a list of other email addresses that they have been circulated to and they are all variations on the same names so I think they are just randomly generated.

[Lunol]

You've either been on a dodgy website or have subscribed to something online and your details sold to the spammers imo.

[diddlydo]

I'm with BT and I never get pornographic spam - on the contrary I sometimes find genuine friends have been spammed!

[Old_Geezer]

Filters should not react any differently to the first compared to the one thousandth. How could it ? That said I created a few rules in MS Outlook to divert advertising (from places I've bought from but are too keen on sending more info) and whilst they work fine on some, there are a few that are unrecognised as being from the same sender each time. I'm unsure why.

Are you using an e-mail client ? If so why not install and use Mailwasher. Makes hand filtering easier.

[TWR]

Never get them I'm with SKY,