Good Riddance to Spam

I'm sure most people on here are aware of this, but, just in case. I use EmClient with my ISP (Comcast) and over the last few months I've been swamped with way too many spam emails. EmClient allows you to set rules to deal with spam but it was getting old having to set up rules all the time. Checking around I found a comment somewhere that mentioned turning on spam control at the ISP level. For whatever reason, I wasn't aware this could be done. So, log into my email online, and sure enough I found a setting to turn on spam filtering, which I did. Lo and behold, I'd say 99% of the spam I was getting has disappeared! In the last 3 days I've only had 2 or 3 spam emails that I had to set rules for in EmClient, all the rest were handled at the ISP level.

So, if you been fighting the spam, you might want to check and see if your ISP has a spam filter.

Aren't you glad that Spam keeps you busy and on your toes @Gramps .
I know, they are annoying and yet, so many get caught up in them and
end up costing them so much money. Gmail keeps a good eye out for
most of them. I get about one every month or so. I have to say that
Hotmail and Live from MS are also good at keeping them at bay. Haven't
had one in a Long time.

I used to be with Comcast until I switched to Fiber. The one thing you have to watch out for with any SPAM filtering is filtering Good emails. I've seen Comcast flag emails from Comcast itself as SPAM. But either way your email address is more than likely sold to others to use in Marketing.

I use both Yahoo and Gmail. The Gmail accounts never see any spam. I send some test mail, now and then, but that's it. Only one of the Yahoo accounts gets any spam (2 to 3 a week). The spam I do get comes through a redirect in an old ".msn" account that my wife (RIP) had. I have tried to delete the account, but MSN doesn't think I have enough credentials to access the account.

None of the spam actually makes it to my "InBox". It all gets redirected to the the "Spam" folder, where it is stripped of all images and attachments. That's nice because I can then open it and see what's inside, without worrying about anything. The sender never really knows if I have received it. Once in the spam folder I just select "Block Sender" and never see one from that address any more. I have in excess of 500 addresses in the blocking list.

What's odd with the span that gets in the Yahoo account is, the originating address is 95% from a Gmail account. I assume it's a hacked Gmail account. They always seem to be telling me that they are removing or adding money to my bank account. It's funny how they manage to not actually mention the bank name in their pitch. Most of the spam is so poorly written, I am surprised that they actually manage to scam anyone.

Thankfully all the spam goes to my spam folder :)

ShamrockRig said:

Thankfully all the spam goes to my spam folder :)

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And if it's Xfinity email, spam is automatically deleted every seven days from the spam folder.

AmericanPharaoh said:

And if it's Xfinity email, spam is automatically deleted every seven days from the spam folder.

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I have to remember every few days now to check my spam folder to make sure something legitimate isn't marked as spam. Still, much better then what I was experiencing.

Gramps said:

I have to remember every few days now to check my spam folder to make sure something legitimate isn't marked as spam. Still, much better then what I was experiencing.

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Check out the above Xfinity link I provided earlier, everything you need to know about Xfinity email is in there.

• You can check and see if any legitimate email was marked as spam by accident and use the toolbar to mark it Not Spam.