Monthly Archives: February 2010

Resolved Question: how do you keep spam of ad emails from reaching you?

i clicked an ad and now i have 30 emails a day
i need to stop them completely, not delay them or anything like that

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Resolved Question: Why am I getting so much Junk email?

[not on yahoo, hotmail] yeah my hotmail address the one I use for msn and everything except this site, I am now getting up to 20 junk emails[saying I won stuff, asking about coupons, taxes, ETC asking me to get a job and stuff and I'm 14 so obviously none of it is true, plus I'm not naive] a day and I NEVER EVER used to get ANY junk mail, and I haven’t signed up for anything or given my email address out, I have been getting a lot of chain letters lately around when I started getting the Junk mail a few days ago could people have forwarded a chain letter with my address and somehow someone who sends junk/spam mail gotten my email address? Or is that impossible.. well how could this have happened? It Sounds stupid, but I loved my nice, clean, junk free email I used to make fun of my mom for having tons of junk mail all the time. The junk mail usually goes into the junk folder[and doesn't show up unless I click mark this as safe] but it’s still annoying! can I somehow block it or get people to stop sending it to me?
oh, I don’t send chain letters btw I delete them

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Resolved Question: Has my account been hacked? How do I stop it happening again?

A spam email was sent using my email address to some (but not all) of my contacts, I got an out of office reply from one so it looks like it came from my account.

Does this mean my account has been hacked? If so what do I do now and how can I stop it happening again?

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Resolved Question: How can I get my old email format back? I have 927 spam messages and have no way to delete them all at once.?

I scrolled all the way through the spam messages and there was no way to check all and delete all. It just stopped with the last message. I HATE THIS FORMAT. Why did you have to change it?

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Open Question: How do stop your email address from becoming your user i.d.?

Please help. I cannot find an answer. When I post a message on Yahoo message board my email address shows as my user I.D. Even when I change to an alternate user I.D. fellow board members know it’s me and post my email address in responses which creates spam. This is identity theft!! How can I stop my email address to be used as my I.D?? and how can others post my email address even when I change to an alternate I.D.????

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