Unwanted spam - help urgently needed!

[deanna]

Hi
I keep receiving emails asking me if I fancied having a Russian bride! I am a straight girl and really am fed up trying to block them on Yahoo. They keep changing part of the address. I get sometimes ten in a day! HELP SOMEONE PLEASE!

[Panic Button]

Either:

Delete every one without ever replying or trying to unsubscribe.
They should eventually stop.

or


Change your e mail address

[Huderon]

Don't delete them as such, flag them a spam. You should find that, after a while, most of them will be put in your junk mail folder automatically. You can then ignore it and the junk will be deleted after a couple of weeks, or you can check the junk mail folder now and then in case something important was posted there by mistake and empty it manually.

Also get a second email address which you can use when you are visiting sites you are not sure of and need to give them an email address. that way any junk mail generated via such sites goes to a spare account which you can clear every couple of weeks and leaves you current email address mostly clear of junk.

[deanna]

Thank you Panic Button and Huderon will give it a go.

[ACtheTROLL]

10 a day .... luxury - I dream of only getting 10 a day

[obNOXious]

I quite fancy aRussian bride actually... could you forward them to me? :)

[koster]

In Yahoo webmail, click on "Options", "Mail Options", "Filters", "Create or edit filters", "Add".

In "Filter name" type "Russian bride". In "Subject contains" or "Body contains" type "Russia" or "bride". Select "Move the message to Trash".

Click "Add filter".

A bit drastic, but fine if you don't receive any legitimate emails about Russia or brides!

[deanna]

Thanks ACtheTROLL - I am sure they are lovely - just prefer men myself!
If you are serious obNOXious I will be delighted to forward these emails to you.
Your practical advice Koster is the one I will follow.
In fact have now done as you and Hudron suggested.

[fo3nix]

You should simply report them as spam.

Any email system worth its salt these days should have a decent Bayesian spam filter, periodically trained on good and bad email.

I personally use Gmail, and never have this issue. I get a hundred or so spam emails a day, but they all end up in my spam folder, where I don't have to look at them.

If continually marking them as spam with Yahoo has no effect, I would seriously consider changing to Gmail. It's free and every bit as easy to use.