I have a regular email address that I use everyday for regular emails from subscriptions and from casual friends. I have another that I don’t use that much and was planning on closing it. I get a lot of Nigerian 419 and lottery scam emails on a weekly basis and I report them to abuse@yahoo.com soon afterwards.
On a lark, I decided to check to see if the Yahoo accounts that the scammers were using had been shutdown, so I put all the email addresses into my other account (the one I don’t use) and sent a little note to all of the scammers who had contacted me.
To my surprise, most of the email addresses were still active, including the Yahoo accounts. I know this because the emails didn’t bounce-back to me. Yahoo seems to have the largest number of active scammer addresses and I had reported all of them. I reported them a second time and, still, most of them are still active! If Yahoo is serious about stopping scammers from using Yahoo Mail, why don’t they shut them down?
I’ve reported every single scam email sent to me. Blocking them from my Inbox doesn’t shutdown the address being used to run the scam.
June 29th, 2010 at 8:19 pm
these are our options at this point
BLOCK SENDERS LIST – SPAM – FILTERS – REPORT SPAM
NEVER OPEN LINKS IN EMAIL YOU ARE UNSURE ABOUT
DO ALL THIS TO HELP TO PREVENT SPAM TO YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
BLOCKING A SENDER
open email program
top right of page choose options
then choose block senders
type in address
OR JUST CLICK THE SPAM BUTTON IT WILL DO IT FOR YOU
BULK MAIL OPTION
open mail program
on right side choose options
then General Preferences
Then Special Folders:
check these two boxes
Save your sent messages in the Sent Items folder
Redirect incoming unsolicited mail to the Bulk Mail folder
you will never see bulk email again
USE FILTERS TO AUTOMATICALLY HAVE EMAILS SENT TO A FOLDER ETC
YAHOO FILTERS LINK
go to mail page
choose options top right corner of the page
then Filters
set it up
choose words like you see in email in subject line
this seems to work best
REPORT SPAM REPORT ABUSE.
report spam from yahoo and q&a
customer care
email yahoo at this address
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