You got mail, I got spam

thewolfe · Post by **thewolfe** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 12:41 pm

You got mail, I got spam

For the last 3 days my wife's Yahoo e-mail has been bombarded with spam.

There is nothing that she has done to cause it.

Most are not addressed to her e-mail address as in "To" mywife@email.com

Here are some of the "From" addresses.

Any ideas? Should I try to block them? If I leave them alone will she fall off the list in the near future?

webmaster@musicmatch.com
info@aol.co
AIM_msg@netscape.aim.com
info@mx4.xxxdvds4sale.com
Steph13pur@aol.com
postman@geocities.com
simeons@allaire.com
ImPeRiAL5@xtingwish.com

Admin@mx4.xxxdvds4sale.com
office@mc8-f38.hotmail.com

Bemrisko1227@aol.com
webmaster@csun.edu
scubaguy0177@yahoo.com
webmaster@angelina5cent.org
hostmaster@mc10-f38.hotmail.com
Admin@netscape.aim.com
jengusa@hotmail.com
postmaster@shareware-australia.com
chris@sitting-duck.com
webmaster@keywitness.ca
vincesanity_16@hotmail.com
hostmaster@mc4-f42.hotmail.com
hostmaster@mc5-f35.hotmail.com
office@mc12-f8.hotmail.com
Qdowoo@optonline.net
office@geocities.com
postmaster@up.edu
office@wwortv.com
postmaster@faxsav.com

Unix · Post by **Unix** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 12:54 pm

I'd block em.

fyrephlie · Post by **fyrephlie** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 1:09 pm

its yahoo, report as spam, and wait for more to come. do not EVER try to respond to these, no matter what the unsubscribe message says. they will remove you from their list and then sell the email address to as many companies as possible now that they know it is a legitamite working address.

companies like yahoo, hotmail, even gmail now, have people bombarding them with any and every combination of xxx@yahoo.com because at least some of the time it will work.

thewolfe · Post by **thewolfe** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 1:13 pm

To be sure, did you mean to report the address to Yahh as spam?

fyrephlie · Post by **fyrephlie** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 1:45 pm

thewolfe wrote:To be sure, did you mean to report the address to Yahh as spam?

yes. reporting to yahoo actually helps out other users. it won't prevent the future receipt of spam for you, but others may not see it.

pay a few bucks for the pop access and use a mail clients built in spam filtering, for some reason i have had better luck with this.

Pugwash · Post by **Pugwash** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 2:06 pm

does she have her spam protection on? options link is on the right under the banner ad.

fyrephlie · Post by **fyrephlie** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 2:20 pm

Pugwash wrote:does she have her spam protection on? options link is on the right under the yahoo approved spam.

thewolfe · Post by **thewolfe** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 3:08 pm

Ops! She didn't have it on. I'll post back and let you know if that helps. Thanks.