Monthly Archives: June 2010

Voting Question: I have an idea for stopping spam emails, has it already been implemented in some way?

my idea is that spam emails generally come from email accounts that are just created as old accounts get closed down, so my idea is an optional setting that blocks emails from accounts that are less then 30 days old or so.

I know my idea needs to be ironed out a bit but I think it could work, also about Junk mail filters they used to work until these spamming companies have now started mixing up the words in the subject like “Beauitful and esexy Lit-tle Bruntete Beibe Linaa Shoiwng Off Her” I know never to click on the links for obvious reasons but its just annoying having to delete the same old spam 20 times a day.
“new addresses are often legit. With this solution someone with a new email would need to wait a month to email you.”

add that person to your contacts and they will be exempt from waiting 30 days to email you.

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Resolved Question: When people add me on myspace, they need my email.?

and i want it to stop, but i can’t. i just recently
made my account this year. i don’t know how to remove it,
but i’ve went to my account -> Spam -> friend request.
and the “require last name or email” isn’t checked.

how come it’s like that and how can i make it disappear?

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Resolved Question: how do you stop unwanted, lewd emails?

For 2 weeks I have been getting these emails from sites like, snagajob.com and others and all they promote is sexual ads. how do I stop them from coming in my spam. Sometimes they make it into my regular email.

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Resolved Question: Why is my email sending out spam? And how do I stop it?

I think I either have a virus, or someone has hacked my account. I keep logging on to find ‘MAILER-DAEMON’ messages. I went into my sent and it says I sent out messages to random people. So they are doing this from MY ACCOUNT. I’ve used Malwarebytes and Spysweeper to help find it, but they haven’t found anything. Help?

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Resolved Question: some of my contacts have been receiving an email from me that I have not sent to them, How can I stop that?

My son and wife among others recently told me that they have been receiving email from me (spam). I had no knowledge of this I never received such email messages so I was totally unaware.

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