help with e mail

[last bad move]

ok ive been getting these scam e mails you know the ones that if you openb them you get a shit load of viruses, well i get about 5 to 10 of these a day and there never from the same person so i cant block them is there a way to stop them from e mailing me. there probly isnt but i just thought id ask

[Sam The Egg]

just delete anything from anybody you don't know

[last bad move]

Originally posted by Sam The Egg
just delete anything from anybody you don't know thats what i do now but i usealy open the e mail to see just in case. it doesnt do anything when i open the email but it always says something like important informaion then there will be a attachment but i dont touch the sttachment i just wanted to stop the emails all together

[Sam The Egg]

don't open the e-mail. If you don't know who sent it, then don't open it. If the "from" thing says it's from you, and you know you didn't send it, don't open it. If it's re: something and you didn't send anything to them, don't open it.

[fluffho]

there are spam blockers however most likely ud just hafto change emails

pain in the ass i know and somehow ive managed to keep this email free for a year now however ive got 3 things of spam, 2 which were definite the 3rd possibly something i signed up for

anyway.. spam sucks

[last bad move]

Originally posted by Sam The Egg
don't open the e-mail. If you don't know who sent it, then don't open it. If the "from" thing says it's from you, and you know you didn't send it, don't open it. If it's re: something and you didn't send anything to them, don't open it. ok thanx for the help who the fuck wastes there time send ing all those emails anyway do you get them too.?

[Sam The Egg]

Just get more than one e-mail account. I've got at least 3

[Sam The Egg]

Originally posted by last bad move
ok thanx for the help who the fuck wastes there time send ing all those emails anyway do you get them too.?

Yeah, and it's not a person. It's like an AIM Bot

[last bad move]

Originally posted by Sam The Egg
Yeah, and it's not a person. It's like an AIM Bot i think its the machines trying to take over on the other side theres the termanator on his computer just getting prepared to kill the human race

[Sam The Egg]

yes, that explains why I get lesbian incest spam in my yahoo mail account...evil robots

[last bad move]

Originally posted by Sam The Egg
yes, that explains why I get lesbian incest spam in my yahoo mail account...evil robots they must be stoped lol

[Sam The Egg]

oh, I don't know, I kinda like the lesbian incest porn...

[last bad move]

Originally posted by Sam The Egg
oh, I don't know, I kinda like the lesbian incest porn... ya i think well prospone the rebelion for awhile


ps your next post will be your 4000th

[Egekrusher]

Ick... no.

There's no way to stop that except to change your email address.

And if they have a virus infected attachment, then it wasn't a person that sent it. It was from someone who got infected by a virus, and the virus in turn mails itself out to every email address it can find stored in that persons computer. Some of the better written viruses can collect email addresses from the people before it and modify itself to include those addresses when it infects the next person.

If it's just spam, then yes, someone is sending it to you on purpose. People get paid to send out spam email.

[AmarylandPsycho]

Originally posted by Egekrusher
Ick... no.

There's no way to stop that except to change your email address.

And if they have a virus infected attachment, then it wasn't a person that sent it. It was from someone who got infected by a virus, and the virus in turn mails itself out to every email address it can find stored in that persons computer. Some of the better written viruses can collect email addresses from the people before it and modify itself to include those addresses when it infects the next person.

If it's just spam, then yes, someone is sending it to you on purpose. People get paid to send out spam email.
Agreed switch your email address. Make it a cool name with lots of significance. Take some of mine for [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] is you send any mail to an address with osprex.com (anything goes here).com and it comes wizzing across the information highway hell-bent on finding me. Now that is a beautiful thing.

[wufongtan]

Originally posted by last bad move
ok ive been getting these scam e mails you know the ones that if you openb them you get a shit load of viruses, well i get about 5 to 10 of these a day and there never from the same person so i cant block them is there a way to stop them from e mailing me. there probly isnt but i just thought id ask
LOL, you're the kind of person that poeple who send virus's dream about. Just don't open anything fom people you don't know.
as simple as that.

[last bad move]

Originally posted by wufongtan
LOL, you're the kind of person that poeple who send virus's dream about. Just don't open anything fom people you don't know.
as simple as that. thanx im little of a computer eliterate

[zwoti]

never open e-mails with attachments from someone you don't know.

[bloodrayne]

You should go ahead and get a new email account, but if you do, don't change it on your profile at this forum....Arioch did that once and nearly had a heart attack because it was saying "May not Post"...."may not receive PMs"..."May not send PMs"....and the name "Arioch" wasn't even in the members list, anymore...This is what I heard..."OMG, I think I got banned!"...LMAO...Can you imagine, Arioch getting BANNED?!...LOL...AS IF!....Oh well, it was funny at the time, guess you had to be there...Ummm...What was this thread about?...OH YEAH...

Last Bad Move, if you decide to get a new account, try Hotmail.Com...I have 4 email accounts and my Hotmail is my favorite, plus I don't have any of the problems that you have described...Wouldn't hurt to try:)

[last bad move]

Originally posted by bloodrayne
You should go ahead and get a new email account, but if you do, don't change it on your profile at this forum....Arioch did that once and nearly had a heart attack because it was saying "May not Post"...."may not receive PMs"..."May not send PMs"....and the name "Arioch" wasn't even in the members list, anymore...This is what I heard..."OMG, I think I got banned!"...LMAO...Can you imagine, Arioch getting BANNED?!...LOL...AS IF!....Oh well, it was funny at the time, guess you had to be there...Ummm...What was this thread about?...OH YEAH...

Last Bad Move, if you decide to get a new account, try Hotmail.Com...I have 4 email accounts and my Hotmail is my favorite, plus I don't have any of the problems that you have described...Wouldn't hurt to try:) ya i have more then one i just like this name but ill use my others and that is real funny about arioch lol

[cheebacheeba]

Best idea:
1- Only open emails that are from known people or organisations you have dealings with.

2- Tell all friends or affiliates provided with your email details to type who they are, and reasons for the email in the subject bar at least for the initial email.

3- Have your email junk filter set to high, this will put every email from a "non-safe-list" or "unknown" address into the junk (or if you're lucky, a "unknown" folder) area automatically.
This way, while logged into your email, simply cruise through the junk area, delete anything thats not cleared by what I explained in 2, and add those you want to keep to the "safe" or "friends" list. Don't bother "blocking" any of the ads, as they tend to use throwaway email accounts anyway.