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Your solution to junk email aka spam.

Smeagol

Smeagol

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I get about 30 to 50 a day on my iPhone. Its my own stupid fault. Recently bought a TV from Best Buy then got a text messages saying I'd won a $1,000 Best Buy gift card. Go to bestbuy.com.... to redeem. With the recent purchase and seeing bestbuy.com in the url, I trusted them and gave them my email address. Then on page 2 they needed my birthday and social security number and I said hold up, wait a minute! Looked at the url, all of which was not automatically visible in the iPhone browser and it was bestbuy.com/ugyufy/scam.biz. Since then the junk mail has been non-spot but at least I didn't give them my other info.

I got a spam filter app for my iphone but haven't set it up yet.

I have a better solution I think that would bring spammers to a slam on the breaks screeching halt. Email postage paid by the sender to the recipient. Here's how it would work. Whenever to set up an email account, you must also set up a small online money account similar to Paypal. Low initial balance like $25 bucks. Then whenever you email someone 3 cents is transferred from your account to theirs. Friends and family writing each other back and forth will cancel each other out. Same for most work related email. However, spammers would have to cough up thousands of dollars for each mass email they send out. To be honest if I'm getting 3 cents for each one I'll be able to tolerate it. At my present rate of spam, that'll get me about $1,000 every Christmas 3 cents at a time accumulated over a year.
 
I have two accounts. One I use for friends, family, and anyone whom I get "real" emails from. Then the other one is some B.S. Yahoo account that I use whenever I want to buy something online. The Yahoo one gets bombed like an Egyptian aspirin factory with spam, but my "real" account stays clean.
 
I make it easy, I just don't let my phone download e-mails. Anyone who needs to contact me immediately either calls or texts anyhow and I can log onto my e-mail server via web and read it that way if I really want to. What's really unfortunate is that phones don't have the kind of spam filtering capability that everything else does.
 
Smeagol said:
I get about 30 to 50 a day on my iPhone. Its my own stupid fault. Recently bought a TV from Best Buy then got a text messages saying I'd won a $1,000 Best Buy gift card. Go to bestbuy.com.... to redeem. With the recent purchase and seeing bestbuy.com in the url, I trusted them and gave them my email address. Then on page 2 they needed my birthday and social security number and I said hold up, wait a minute! Looked at the url, all of which was not automatically visible in the iPhone browser and it was bestbuy.com/ugyufy/scam.biz. Since then the junk mail has been non-spot but at least I didn't give them my other info.

I got a spam filter app for my iphone but haven't set it up yet.

I have a better solution I think that would bring spammers to a slam on the breaks screeching halt. Email postage paid by the sender to the recipient. Here's how it would work. Whenever to set up an email account, you must also set up a small online money account similar to Paypal. Low initial balance like $25 bucks. Then whenever you email someone 3 cents is transferred from your account to theirs. Friends and family writing each other back and forth will cancel each other out. Same for most work related email. However, spammers would have to cough up thousands of dollars for each mass email they send out. To be honest if I'm getting 3 cents for each one I'll be able to tolerate it. At my present rate of spam, that'll get me about $1,000 every Christmas 3 cents at a time accumulated over a year.
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Your best course of action is to consider this a lesson learned, bite the bullet and create a new email account (or two...that's a good idea that I use as well) and notify all your contacts of the change. It's a hassle, but in the long run better than putting up with the spam. It won't ever stop.
 
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I get about 30 to 50 a day on my iPhone. Its my own stupid fault. Recently bought a TV from Best Buy then got a text messages saying I'd won a $1,000 Best Buy gift card. Go to bestbuy.com.... to redeem. With the recent purchase and seeing bestbuy.com in the url, I trusted them and gave them my email address. Then on page 2 they needed my birthday and social security number and I said hold up, wait a minute! Looked at the url, all of which was not automatically visible in the iPhone browser and it was bestbuy.com/ugyufy/scam.biz. Since then the junk mail has been non-spot but at least I didn't give them my other info.

I got a spam filter app for my iphone but haven't set it up yet.

I have a better solution I think that would bring spammers to a slam on the breaks screeching halt. Email postage paid by the sender to the recipient. Here's how it would work. Whenever to set up an email account, you must also set up a small online money account similar to Paypal. Low initial balance like $25 bucks. Then whenever you email someone 3 cents is transferred from your account to theirs. Friends and family writing each other back and forth will cancel each other out. Same for most work related email. However, spammers would have to cough up thousands of dollars for each mass email they send out. To be honest if I'm getting 3 cents for each one I'll be able to tolerate it. At my present rate of spam, that'll get me about $1,000 every Christmas 3 cents at a time accumulated over a year.
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I don't know about IPhones, but I use hotmail. My filter is set to exclusive. If you're not a Contact, you go into my junk mail folder. I quickly scan them and empty the folder daily. I probably get 300 junk e's a day. I've had my email address for 13 years, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. If those came to my phone, I'd shoot myself.

I fried my Smartphone, so I'm waiting for my contract to come up to get a new one. But when I did have it, I never set up the email. I'm just not that important. Ha!
 
I have two Yahoo accounts, one private and one for junk stuff like buying online...a Hotmail account for junk stuff that I hardly use because Hotmail had problems with hackers not too long ago...and one Gmail account for gaming stuff. Email from my private account and my gaming account get pushed to my phone. I've never gotten spam on those. Every two or three months I go into the other two accounts and just delete all the spam and most of everything else.

I like to be careful and keep things low maintenance.
 
I have my main email acct then I have a google and a yahoo....for example when I say yes to a sites subscription its to yahoo or google...or if Im starting an account with many sites. I run junk controls on my main email...I get very little junk there
I view all email with the premise it is not safe....that makes me feel safer.
 
Another way to filter spam is to use gmail. When you sign up for something add a 'dash' and a word you want filtered. Using "spam" will unlikely work.
Example: Account.Name-filtered@gmail.com

Create a filter for trash with email to 'filtered'.

Plus, you know who sold your info.
 
You can go to GoDaddy.com. Get your own web address. I think they throw in a free email account (or used to). Get a "catch-all email box. Your trusted ones, address is xxx@xyz.info. Untrusted, company name@xyz.com. Spam can then be handled by your mail program.

I haven't gotten one piece of spam since I did this. Spammers hit the big ones like yahoo, gmx, mail.com etc.
 
Smeagol said:
I get about 30 to 50 a day on my iPhone. Its my own stupid fault. Recently bought a TV from Best Buy then got a text messages saying I'd won a $1,000 Best Buy gift card. Go to bestbuy.com.... to redeem. With the recent purchase and seeing bestbuy.com in the url, I trusted them and gave them my email address. Then on page 2 they needed my birthday and social security number and I said hold up, wait a minute!
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I have long wanted to know what actually happens when you go that link.
 
Good advice, All. I think what I might do is set up a gmail account and then forward all of my mail to it taking advantage of its spam filter. Its a work associated address with my name followed by my job's domain: Smeagol@whereiwork.com. Thus, I just can't scrap it unfortunately.

I also need to set up separate addresses for friends, work and potential spam.
 
Smeagol said:
I get about 30 to 50 a day on my iPhone. Its my own stupid fault. Recently bought a TV from Best Buy then got a text messages saying I'd won a $1,000 Best Buy gift card. Go to bestbuy.com.... to redeem. With the recent purchase and seeing bestbuy.com in the url, I trusted them and gave them my email address. Then on page 2 they needed my birthday and social security number and I said hold up, wait a minute! Looked at the url, all of which was not automatically visible in the iPhone browser and it was bestbuy.com/ugyufy/scam.biz. Since then the junk mail has been non-spot but at least I didn't give them my other info.

I got a spam filter app for my iphone but haven't set it up yet.

I have a better solution I think that would bring spammers to a slam on the breaks screeching halt. Email postage paid by the sender to the recipient. Here's how it would work. Whenever to set up an email account, you must also set up a small online money account similar to Paypal. Low initial balance like $25 bucks. Then whenever you email someone 3 cents is transferred from your account to theirs. Friends and family writing each other back and forth will cancel each other out. Same for most work related email. However, spammers would have to cough up thousands of dollars for each mass email they send out. To be honest if I'm getting 3 cents for each one I'll be able to tolerate it. At my present rate of spam, that'll get me about $1,000 every Christmas 3 cents at a time accumulated over a year.
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I have an MSN account. What I mark as spam will always go to the spam box.I think anything from a an unfamiliar sender automatically gets sent to the spam folder and I have to mark what ever is not spam as safe.Its pretty effective.
 
Forward it to the Obama campaign. :mrgreen:
 
I've had problems with conservative friends spamming me with tons of links to Worldnetdaily and Newmax, like I don't know what is going on, or sending me high megapixel pictures of their children and pets. I have had to e-mail them to cut it out. A few got offended. That's too bad, but with Hughesnet, I am limited to 250 Mbytes download a day, and I don't want to waste that trying to download huge pictures that I immediately delete as soon as I open them. If I don't get e-mail, so what. At least when I get ready to download antivirus and Microsoft upgrades, I at least won't be punished for downloading too much. Of course, those with unlimited DSL don't understand the plight of us rural dwellers.
 
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