Chip

My wife keeps getting **** through her email.How can this be stopped.As she has not even used her email account
to send anything at all I dont see why this is happening. Can any of you IT boys and girls help and is this illegal.
Chip

Ian Cook

Hmm, is the sent from email address visible?

If it is you can complain to the originating ISP, and they should stop the account.

If it is not, check with your other halfs ISP or company they should be able to trace where the crap is coming from, and do something about it.

Not sure if its illegal, but it should be !

Mr.Cookie

Dont do IT but is this not SPAM which is illegal also is this a web bassed email account ie hotmail if yes why not get a free account with someone like LineOne as long as you dialup to it once a month or so account stays active. And unlike Hotmail Yahoo Etc.. they dont have (well my accounts dont) any probs.

Cheers
Simon

Chip

I have had my own hotmail account for 18 months and get no junkmail at all. Just seems strange that me missus gets all this crap when shwe hasnt even used the account. She also this week had 16 mails regarding loans. Strange.
Chip.

RichB

my hotmail account gets all that crud aswell. You can apply filters but is a pain. Somebody told me there was a check box somewhere to say don't send me junk.
I would set up a new account and keep an eye for the small print.

Just been to my Hotmail account and you can select all the mails in your inbox and press the block sender button, should do the trick. It may take a while but you will gradually get rid of them.

salsa-king

my g-friend had **** sent on here hotmail account, it was even written to her as if they/she knew her/them!!!! now she is with TALK21 and has no problem at all.

simes

Hotmail and other free email addresses come and go.

She might have acquired someome else's old email address.

Have her sign up again with a new address, preferably one that doesn't need a number at the end to de-duplicate it. You'll need to be quite imaginative to do this!

Hope this helps

Simon

Suresh

We are also being spammed on our hotmail account. Have had the account for around 3 years, so it's not just a newbie thing.

Spam started about 3 months ago. Have set the "Inbox Protector" to only accept mails from addresses already known to us. This works well and I get no spam in the inbox. Reckon I clear out about 20 messages from the "Bulk Mail" folder every week or so, which only takes a few seconds.

Can't be bothered to change move the account, as so many people know it the way it is. Plan to set up a mail server on our private domain eventually - once I figure out how to do it! So will tolerate clearing down bulk mail folder in hotmail from time to time until then.

Tried mailing "abuse@hotmail.com" but only got automated responses containing an advisory that most of the mail headers of incoming spam are forged, so you cannot actually see where they really came from to go and complain to the webmaster there.

I would love to know how our addresses are getting on the spammers' lists. F**king Microsoft?

Suresh

Richard Gledhill

The HotMail servers have been hacked a couple of times, and they've almost certainly nicked them that way. Unlucky!

Richard

GranTurismo

Hello,

Be carefull about the sites you "subscribe to". Many sites will ask you your eMail address etc to register. Some sites will resell this information just like all the other mail lists do with snail mail.

A real factor is the address you have, like simes said she may have an acount that someone else had who subscribed to this. Also someone she knows may have signed her up to this for a "joke". Most companies who are legit or even semi-legit will offer an unsubscribe url in the mail that will remove you from a list.

Review the last part of the email address after the @ sign ie email@pornspam.com. Then try to find the site i.e.

GranTurismo

Hello,

I just noticed that the pornspam url I typed came up as a link, dont worry I made it up as an example and it wont take anyone anywhere nasty (or anywhere at all)

Bye,

Dave.

boomer

I tend to disagree with GranTurismo's suggestion of using a "unsubscribe option", either from the web-site or in the e-mail. Sometimes spammers just randomly try for e-mail addresses and if you reply (for whatever reason) they know they have a real address).

When i first got on the Internet a year ago, i innocently posted in a couple of newsgroups (not **** ones i hasten to add !) without realising that my e-mail address was available by default (thankyou Microsoft). Soon after i started getting a few junk mails with statements like "We conform to the senate bill xyz, reply to have your name removed". I didn't reply, and never received any more e-mails.

You may also want to check your security settings on your web-browser - i am not an expert, but i bet that some web-sites can extract an awful lot of data about _you_ without you even realising - see

James Neill

iTrader: (1)

Tips

1) Hotmail has a directory that your email address/name/etc gets put in unless you deselect an option when you sign up. Deselecting it after you've signed up is like closing the gate after the horse has bolted.

2) Never reply with the "unsubscribe in subject box" unless its a respectable site. The owners just use it to confirm they've got a valid email address. Likewise never email abuse@whatever.com

3) Have two email addresses, eg, your Internet POP account for mates and stuff and a hotmail account for those sites where you need to supply an email address to register.

4) If your getting flooded with SPAM, you'll never stop it - so get a new email address. Most decent ISPs will let you do this.