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How do I stop email spam? - 332 - 06-16-2014 10:32 PM
I have this email from yahoo that I've had for a couple years now. I get tons of emails per day and it's quite annoying. I get emails from YouTube, Tumblr, Facebook, etc. The point is that I want all those emails that I consider spam ( YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc) to not be received anymore. Is this possible? How can I do it?
Thanx
- Arthur Dent - 06-16-2014 10:43 PM
The simplest way to get the emails you mention to stop coming is to look carefully at the bottom of each of these emails and see if you see a link that says "Click here to unsubscribe". You could also login into the account you have at each one of these websites and change your contact preferences to no mail contact.
Trying to block spam emails is a losing battle since they change email addresses with each Spam message sent. You want to mark each email as spam so your spam filter will improve over time. You can do this by right-clicking on the spam email and then left-clicking on the option "This is Spam". Here's some articles on how to fight the good fight against spam.
Stopping spam from coming into your Yahoo! Mail Inbox. - https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/SLN3227.html?impressions=true
An email was wrongly filtered as spam - https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/SLN4910.html?impressions=true
Protecting yourself from "phishing" or "spoofing" - https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail/SLN2092.html?impressions=true
Reporting a phishing email sent from a Yahoo! email address - https://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=content&id=SLN3477&actp=search&viewlocale=en_US&searchid=1373852376363&locale=en_US&y=PROD_MAIL_ML
Why do I see a purple Y! next to certain messages in my Inbox? - https://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=content&id=SLN3405&actp=search&viewlocale=en_US&searchid=1373600963942&locale=en_US&y=PROD_MAIL_ML
Some abuse reporting tools - http://abuse.net/tools.phtml
Fight Spam on the Internet - http://spam.abuse.net/
Block addresses in Yahoo Mail - https://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=content&id=SLN3228&actp=search&viewlocale=en_US&searchid=1371770035408&locale=en_US&y=PROD_MAIL_ML