MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
We will be in touch
Over the last couple of weeks my junk emails have gone up from around 5 a day to about 80 a day covering anything from Netflix to easyJet to sera cbd oil to mortgages.
I’ve tried unsubscribing but they come from that many different company’s it’s an impossible task. Tried blocking them but they still keep coming from the same place.
Any ideas how to stop them or is it a lost cause and a new email address?
'unsubscribing' can often encourage your adress to be shared wider as they know its a 'live' address, bit like spam phone calls, if you answer, they know there's a person at the other end.
What email do you use? Can you not just flag it as spam? Might take a while but it will ebb off eventually if you keep flagging it.
Also, no need to look in your junk folder unless you're expecting an email that didn't arrive, that's what it's there for.
Don't try and unsubscribe from junk mail - amongst other reasons it just flags your mail account as active and will increase spam rate.
Other than that - I have no solutions apart from some good mailbox rules.
Cheers fellas, will try flagging them .
Not a lost cause. There are 2 kinds of junk; the random phishing/sexual/etc and the unsolicited messages from companies and websites you've dealt with previously. The latter do eventually go away if you keep clicking on unsubscribe but it does take a while. The first kind needs to be filtered. Either with manual filters or by the email system. Mine was a mess but it is.much improved
Edit. Cross posted with the earlier posters, I spent ages trying other methods rather than clicking unsubscribe because of the reasons stated above. Now I do unsubscribe and it does work as long as it is from a company or website you have had dealings with.
Ok, how do I flag it as spam?
What email are you using?
But tbh if it's already going to your junk folder don't worry about it, Hotmail /Microsoft email for example will clear out your junk folder for mail older than so many days, so it stays quite empty...it just retains a few days worth, 10 or something incase a genuine email gets flagged as junk and you want to see it.
Good luck with that, I used to get an Asda bag full of menus every month.
aggressively chasing a bloke down the street after you mentioned to him last week AND THE WEEK BEFORE that you don’t want that shite through your door ever again doesn’t seem to work.
I used to live in Wigan town center and would get menus from Ashton,,,, 7 **** miles away,,,,
1/2 mile away was Wigan lane, it has a higher concentration of junk food outlets than it does rats
The next government to heavily tax junk mail gets my vote.
BANKSY, produced a sticker on his web site many moons ago that stated
“if you post a menu through my door I will never eat your junk food ever again”
That didn’t work either as the majority of the junk mailers don’t speak/read or even care to read English.
Don’t get me started,,,,, I’m goin bed
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR, GRRRR
Didn’t see the ‘email’ bit,,,, just flew into a junk mail frenzy
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Oreetmon that’s just how I feel about the bloody emails!
I just want to be able to tell them to #### right off!
I know it’s only a computer sending them but it’s still annoying.
Get your own web address with email then every time you register with a website you can have a separate email for that website
So say your web address is www.cogglepin.com you can have
singletrackworld@cogglepin.com as the email for singletrackworld and
chainreactioncycles@cogglepin.com for chain reaction and so on this way if you get any junk you know who has sold your data.
This will obviously cost money but a good way of tracking information.
Cheers darkside, this is all a learning curve to me.
Gmail is really good at identifying spam/junk email. I'd try that before going down the whole Domain Name approach.
Silly Benny Hill gif embed didn't work. 🙁
@oreetmon most of the 'junk' mail is delivered courtesy of Royal Mail so chase them first.
Gmail and Outlook/Hotmail have great filtering - you just click on 'send to junk' or 'block sender'.
Both systems 'learn' and are very good.
Gmail is really good at identifying spam/junk email. I’d try that before going down the whole Domain Name approach.
As scotroutes above - I almost never get spam or junk to my Inbox, and very little (maybe at most 40-50 a month?) even lands in my spam or junk folders. And as Matt says, tell it something's spam and it'll filter out that and similar items going forward.