p2154622: I need to report a spammer to yahoo?
I continue getting spam from a place lapprogram I cannot get them to stop.
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Answer by Kevin.S Y!2K
Yahoo beta lets you right click on email messages and identify them as spam. Regular Yahoo mail let’s you click on the squares next to emails and click on the “spam” button at the top of that page. Similar email will be blocked after that. If an email get’s into your bulk folder that is not junk email then you can open the email and click on “not spam.” Click on the Bulk folder to see a link for activating Yahoo SpamGuard.
You may turn off images in emails using SpamGuard settings. That will improve security since spammers won’t see your computer load those images and know your email address works.
You can forward spam email to [email protected]
It does help. Spammers resist, which lets me know it helps more than we know. Spam to my email went down after I started forwarding it all to [email protected]
I have set up a filter to collect all the mail I WANT into a “keep” folder. I read that email first, since it’s from addresses on my list.
You will still need to look at your inbox because there’ll always be a chance someone you want to get email from is not on your list.
I wouldn’t bother setting up a second filter to keep out bad email, because that would be a third folder you would need to check because it will sometimes catch your friends’ emails.
With Outlook you can right click on an email message and look at the properties. Then you can look at the “source”. That will let you look at a questionable email without actually opening it. Opening some emails can activate pictures and things they’ve designed to reach back to their web sites to save information like your email address. For this reason I would turn off features in your email that let you “preview” messages, because that preview can get information from the attackers web site.
If something in the text doesn’t identify the email as being from someone you know then you should not open the email.
Most people consider bulk email to be spam. Don’t trust any bulk email or spam. If you respond to them in any way they make a profit from it and will continue.
If the spam is clearly trying to get you to send them money you can go to
https://www.ftc.gov and use the “file a complaint” link in the center near the top. It will help give them the information they need to track the mass fraud.
Here is more information from Yahoo
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=product&locale=en_US&y=PROD_MAIL_ML&pir=ZvVJIk9ibUm_nhoCQdeuISoVozO2KzHKLZK6xQ–
Blocking email addresses
Go into mail….click on Options in the upper right….
Choose Block Addresses and type in an email address or domain. A domain can be spammers.com.
If a friend after that sends from spammers.com it will look like spam. Blocked email doesn’t even make it to your bulk folder, it’s gone.
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