Does this happen to anyone else where suddenly you block emails every week from spam accounts? What do you do in this situation? Deal with it or get a new email?
Recently I have been getting around 4 a week half of which are usually from (random symbols)@icloud(dot)com. It is becoming quite annoying and it is my Microsoft account (Rookie mistake for not making a throw away email)!!
all spam goes into my Gmail spam folder i never see anything i dont want to.
Yeah it goes to my Outlook Junk folder too but it's still unnerving knowing my email is out there hahah
Nothing you can really do against spam everybody gets it.
Had same email for about 12+years and the amount of spam I get is mind bottling, Most gets caught though a lot do make it to my inbox, I just skim through it.
There's no bulletproof way of saving your email from drowning in spam, but there is a way to prevent it before it happens. It requires careful management of how you use your email.
I have around 4 email accounts ~ Each has different passwords.
1 yahoo mail that I use to sign up to loyalty cards with, as well as receive newsletters, free trials, give-aways, competitions and such. It's basically my permanent throw-away account. It also contains zero personal information about me, so even if this email has been hacked, no sweat as there's nothing worthwhile in it.
This email gets the most spam and has the least security. People have attempted to breach my account before, and I know a lot of websites have leaked my email out due to issues like the Heartbleed glitch.
Gmail account #1 is for personal contacts and keeping in touch with friends/family, and it has Google Play credit, and social networking features enabled (Google+ and Photos). I've set this one to also automatically delete when I die (that is, Google deletes my personal data when I haven't logged on in 180 days). This email also gets a little bit of spam but it is also increasing slightly as I've gotten careless and let it become known publicly.
Gmail account #2 is for eBay and online shopping only. My eBay account is linked to it and all online accounts that I make on e-tailling websites also go to this email. It has two factor authentication enabled and is also high security.
This email gets a LOT of spam but not as much as my throw-away yahoo mail.
Gmail account #3 is ONLY for banking, business, work and other important stuff (like myGov accounts, education accounts, payments, job seeking websites etc). It contains a lot of information about me so also high security. No public G+ profile and no Google Play usage.
This email gets very little spam even after 2 years of use.
Thanks for the tips. I wish I set mine with as much thought. Why keep the most spammy account on the provider with the crappier spam protection though?
Yahoo? Lol, mostly because I used to be a Yahoo Answers user…
account #2 works except then you have F&F forward you cute pics of dogs/cats etc which are spam harvesters.
They think it's clever but its not.
A 2a/2b strategy helps where family is 2a and friends 2b with family under strict orders not to send you cute emails.
a tough love is to change your 2b immediately after getting a friend send you a cute pic email, telling all this occured after getting one of these from one of them. (Tougher if you name who it was)
After a few times the cute pics stop as all the friends understand you dont want them, and more people understand the spam harvesting trick
I've got almost exactly the same setup - challenge sometimes is being lazy and 'leaking' the personal or work account - or ensuring people don't enter it in a website in the 'share this with a friend' or 'invite a friend' links.
I've never had any spam issues on any of my email accounts! It really must depend on how careful you are with blindly entering your email online
forward everything through gmail
As above. Gmail spam filters are great. I use one Gmail account for most things, sign up to all sorts of crap and still only get about 30 or 40 spam messages a month. But they all go to the junk folder so it's no problem. I set up a reminder to once a month check the junk folder just to see if there were any false positives.
it is my Microsoft account (Rookie mistake for not making a throw away email)!!
Rookie mistake for making a Microsoft account. My gmail account gets significantly less if any spam emails.
My Microsoft account uses my gmail account to get the best of both :-)
I have had a MS (hotmail account since 2002. I honestly get zero spam.
I have never usued it to sign up to things though (forums etc)
I get like a thousand spam emails a week… I'd rather see a full inbox than get no mail IMHO…
I want the sweep ability that outlook.com users get. I get lots of ham from one day or one week deals but I want them deleted automatically soon after instead of requiring me to clean it manually.
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