I’m still getting a ton of political spam.
Spam spam spam spam spam spam
Monty python
Someone turned over your email address to the spammers. Might as well just plan on getting a new email address.
All it takes is for one “wrong” entity to get your private e-mail address, and it’s all over. In my case, I get ads about toenail fungus.
I get some spam emails every day. Most go into my Junk mailbox, but every so often, I’ll get one in my regular mailbox, and will have to mark it junk so my mail program will recognize it in the future as junk mail.
I actually believe that some businesses’ main source of profit is based on selling email addresses.
And if you hit an “unsubscribe” button you’re acknowledging that it’s a valid email address that gets checked by a real person, so it’ll get sold and resold as a “verified” email that spam companies drool over. Best to just delete them. If you have a “block sender” function that may help.
Nothing unusual here. My email provider charges me about $48 per year, but I get a huge amount of storage space and a great spam filter.
Looks like Spamfilter sold you out.
Some advice. Have a second email address that has no private information about you and you do no personal email on. Use that email address to sign up for web services that are likely to expose you to spam instead of your real email address.
Are you logged in?
You have given your email address to some business who sold the address to a clearing house. They in turn sell “hot” email addresses to spamming companies.
Same thing happens with your telephone number. This is why I still have a home phone number and a cell phone number. I never give my cell phone to a business unless it’s the auto repair place who needs to call me for approval. Routine business get my home phone, and all of the crank third party begging calls go to my home phone.
Google your email address.
I have as well and am thinking about the problem and work around.
I suspect it has to do with info android delivers and Windoze 10.
Two of the three are, um, wrong.
First, Win XP (which I happened to like but..) is a dead fish and does not now nor will in the future receive any security updates. You might want to consider Win7 or (groan) Win10 just for the continued support from those folk in Redmond.
Second, Outlook Express is (and always was) one of the worst email programs out. You might want to consider something else.
My personal preference is Thunderbird. It will (if you want) import your contacts from Outlook Express when you set it up. It has a fairly good built in spam filter which you can set up to filter stuff to a spam folder, and if it misses something it will learn/remember it if/when you flag it as spam.
And as others have said, clicking the 'unsubscribe' in most spam emails will only validate your email address as valid and probably generate more.
Just my $0.02 worth.
Outlook EXPRESS? Are you serious?
The most recent version came out in 2001.
Buy Office Professional 2007 used for $60.00 or less and install Outlook.
It will except spam filters.
Good luck!
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I have several email addresses. I can give the fakes to people I don’t know. Where’s the beach@ gopoundsand.com