So I was getting normal amount of spam and managed it. This was for the last three to five years. I had notifications turned on. Then I woke up one morning about two weeks ago to what I thought was my alarm clock. It was not my alarm clock but instead it was 98 emails sent to me in one hour. And it gets worse. It was around 100 sent to my Gmail app, another 100 to my Outlook app, another 100 to my Inbox app, 100 to my phone’s Mail app. Sent in one hour. Like as if it was automated. I did all I could think of and turned notifications off so I could go about my day. But I’ve recently looked and with in the past two weeks, there are now any where 19,000 unopened message and 7,000 more in the junk folder. This is not humanly possible to manage. What can I do?
I set the spam blocker over and over but still get the loads of junk emails. It is all done by bots. The blocker works for a few day but a week or two later it's back to loads of them. What I wonder is if the spammers ever get any responses that result in money.
i have been getting a normal amount of spam maybe just 1 or 2 spam emails every few days and suddenly today i got about 10 spam emails from different senders on different topics in the span of 2-3 hours and it was random because i never usually get this much, also they appeared in my regular inbox, worried im gonna have to ditch this email and spend hours changing emails
I had a very large threat email to my outlook/Hotmail inbox today with hardly any spacing between words that didn't get out straight into junk. What should I do? Have I got a virus now? He said he put a Trojan on my phone and not to tell anyone?
I am getting subscription spammed the last days. I dont know how to exactly handle that. Unsubscribing from all of them by hand seems risky and there are way to much of them. They have no access to any of my data. Only my E-Mail "name". Its so annoying they try to create accounts and subscribe me everywhere but im not accepting the subscriptons/account create where you need to accept it. What can i do about that?
I have a psuedo email/profile not linked to my real name i made with out a cell phone carrier service and for 3 years now i have not found a single spam email. If you make accounts and sign up for stuff, open email, then you'll get spam. Your email follows your web browsing around like name badge displayed publicly.
@@swimfan6292 He never said he opens them. You are correct though. The old way they knew they had an active email account to spam at was if the email was opened and uploaded images from the spam's server. Nowadays, it is far more technical with code performing a similar function to that, or worse, e.g., malware etc. What he is asking is why do they even let the spam get to your spam folder. Probably the reason is because of the possibility of false positives. Occasionally I get an important email go to spam. If the server nuked it thinking it was spam instead of sending it to me, then that's a problem.
Its been 1 week and in this week i kept getting emails from some email with my name in it but its not me and they attach it to other emails with my name in it, it sends me fake delivery conformation or something and telling me that there is a delivery but i didn’t even ordered anything and u can clearly see its fake i dnt even click on it it looks so low quality and fake idk if i should be worried cuz its the 4th time im getting it i kept blocking and they make new one
No, but you may block legitimate emails that some companies send "from" your email address. (Having trouble coming up with a general example, but I know it happens.) I do NOT recommend blocking your own email address.
Who the heck falls for spam anyway? The spammers are so obvious. They send stuff like 'NZ government payment waiting for you", or "your cloud storage is full", but they decorate the email subject heading with emotes etc, i.e., very unprofessional. The other one is 'hottie wants to do naughty stuff to you' - paraphrased. I am 53. I really doubt some hottie wants to do anything with me. - lol. Somebody must fall for it, or they would not bother. That's unless bulk spam has a different purpose than finding folks to dupe (I dunno what that could be though). Yeah, Gmail filters spam well. Occasional false positives, but I can live with that. What I do not like about Google is how they seem to share or allow outfits like Meta/Facebook to access browser history. I go on FB much less these days, but the stuff Zuckerface tends to spam my feed with is usually very similar to what I watch on UA-cam, or search on Google. That and a bunch of garbage paid for posts I have no interest in and did not ask for. I am trying DuckDuck Go. What a silly name. TBH, it is almost as commercial as Google. Search results trying to sell me stuff instead of giving me information about the search topic -- the information superhighway has become the advertising superhighway. What annoys me far more than spam is nag-mail. I use a lot of digital audio workstation software. Some of them seem to think the more they email me offers, the more likely I am to buy something. I am less likely to buy stuff if they annoy me. Sometimes account settings help, sometimes not. My dad used to joke "the only email I get is offers for hair regrowth products and ED boner pills - how do they know?". He was funny as eff sometimes. A Boomer that liked video games too (just old school ones like AOE and C&C etc). P.S. I know somebody who likes to use cracked software. A young fella. I told him how almost all cracked software these days has trojan horse viruses. The days of hackers being completive about being the first to upload working cracks are long gone. Most cracks these days have ulterior motives. They may want to steal data like banking details. They might want to get your computer mining Bitcoin etc. They might want to use your computer remotely and as part of a network for DDoS attacks. The thing to look out for is unusual actively, e.g., the CPU, GPU, or network interface working hard when the computer should be idling (fans working hard is not usually that though -- it's usually that their calibration and fan curves are wonky).
When u unsubscribe from a email sender & it asks for your email, should u provide your email or is that mistake - cuz that sender will pass your email around - resulting into more spam emails?
I need to stop myself from looking to see what's in there. So frustrating. You're right Gmail is pretty good at stopping it. I was using Yahoo for my personal email and Gmail for business.
So I have an Yahoo account. All of a sudden my Spam emails are coming into my inbox. It wasn't before but now its getting to be a headache. What do I need to do?
If it's YOUR email then only you could have made the account -- if it really is the account. You generally have to confirm your email address before an account is created.
@@askleonotenboom thank you. I didn’t create them, it sounds like they’re all fake. They’re just trying to make go in there and give my info, but I’m not going to.
I have a spam email that I use when I need to buy something from a small business, but I use my Gmail address for institutions and large retailers, they seem to not sell your email.
Most of my accounts are outlook, yahoo, and aol. I have about 20 of them which are topic-specific: Personal, Financial, Vendors, Entertainment, Shopping, Travel, etc. I've have only seen spam on one of my personal accounts which has been around for years. Outlook tends to error on the side of sending legitimate to SPAM. I was playing on a pc disconnected from the network to see what these "image-only" spam emails do when you click the image, I haven't been able to get any of them to do anything, do they just confirm a working email to get more spam or scams on?
same i did the wrong and gave my email to a robux scam and then i wanted to visit a bad sight and i sent it and did the wrong but now i regret my life ever since i did and i get flooded with hundreds of spam a day but i donmt worry anymore i just delete my spam once in awhile
I unsubscribe and mark as spam for everything, yet now a days the unsubscribe button doesn't work... I even got some where they say to write to the company to stop these email... this is crap.
I get emails all the time in my spam folder claiming to be microsoft, account suspicious activity emails. Should i be worried? Could they be real? Is it that common for legit microsoft emails to get that many false positives?
A bunch of undisclosed recipients' Gmail, all related to sex.....what's happening ??? Crazy annoying! How to stop those trash people and trash Gmail? Is there anybody who knows how to stop them? Thank you!!!
If they're in your spam folder I expect your email provider will delete them eventually. Generally there's no harm in deleting them yourself, but generally not worth the effort.
So I was getting normal amount of spam and managed it. This was for the last three to five years. I had notifications turned on. Then I woke up one morning about two weeks ago to what I thought was my alarm clock. It was not my alarm clock but instead it was 98 emails sent to me in one hour. And it gets worse. It was around 100 sent to my Gmail app, another 100 to my Outlook app, another 100 to my Inbox app, 100 to my phone’s Mail app. Sent in one hour. Like as if it was automated. I did all I could think of and turned notifications off so I could go about my day. But I’ve recently looked and with in the past two weeks, there are now any where 19,000 unopened message and 7,000 more in the junk folder. This is not humanly possible to manage. What can I do?
Create a new email.
Me too! How do I fix it!?!?
If you create a new email or different email provider won’t I lose all my contacts?
@@LastTrump7 yep
I set the spam blocker over and over but still get the loads of junk emails. It is all done by bots. The blocker works for a few day but a week or two later it's back to loads of them. What I wonder is if the spammers ever get any responses that result in money.
They wouldn't be doing it otherwise. It takes very few responses for spam to be worth it to them.
Southwest Airlines phishing scams keep returning to yahoo inbox despite being marked as spam
i have been getting a normal amount of spam maybe just 1 or 2 spam emails every few days and suddenly today i got about 10 spam emails from different senders on different topics in the span of 2-3 hours and it was random because i never usually get this much, also they appeared in my regular inbox, worried im gonna have to ditch this email and spend hours changing emails
Nope. Just mark them as spam and move on.
I had a very large threat email to my outlook/Hotmail inbox today with hardly any spacing between words that didn't get out straight into junk. What should I do? Have I got a virus now? He said he put a Trojan on my phone and not to tell anyone?
I am getting subscription spammed the last days. I dont know how to exactly handle that. Unsubscribing from all of them by hand seems risky and there are way to much of them. They have no access to any of my data. Only my E-Mail "name". Its so annoying they try to create accounts and subscribe me everywhere but im not accepting the subscriptons/account create where you need to accept it. What can i do about that?
Mark them as spam, and move on.
I have a psuedo email/profile not linked to my real name i made with out a cell phone carrier service and for 3 years now i have not found a single spam email. If you make accounts and sign up for stuff, open email, then you'll get spam. Your email follows your web browsing around like name badge displayed publicly.
Should be possible to stop unwanted email like spam or other email on a server level instead of on a client level.
Stop opening spam emails. They have hidden code in it that activates when you open it. Sometimes even without
@@swimfan6292 He never said he opens them. You are correct though. The old way they knew they had an active email account to spam at was if the email was opened and uploaded images from the spam's server. Nowadays, it is far more technical with code performing a similar function to that, or worse, e.g., malware etc.
What he is asking is why do they even let the spam get to your spam folder. Probably the reason is because of the possibility of false positives. Occasionally I get an important email go to spam. If the server nuked it thinking it was spam instead of sending it to me, then that's a problem.
Its been 1 week and in this week i kept getting emails from some email with my name in it but its not me and they attach it to other emails with my name in it, it sends me fake delivery conformation or something and telling me that there is a delivery but i didn’t even ordered anything and u can clearly see its fake i dnt even click on it it looks so low quality and fake idk if i should be worried cuz its the 4th time im getting it i kept blocking and they make new one
I'm getting spam messages without a name in the sender box.
Hi i have a problem with a spam email
They are using my email address and domain
So if i block i will block all emails to my address
No, but you may block legitimate emails that some companies send "from" your email address. (Having trouble coming up with a general example, but I know it happens.) I do NOT recommend blocking your own email address.
Who the heck falls for spam anyway? The spammers are so obvious. They send stuff like 'NZ government payment waiting for you", or "your cloud storage is full", but they decorate the email subject heading with emotes etc, i.e., very unprofessional. The other one is 'hottie wants to do naughty stuff to you' - paraphrased. I am 53. I really doubt some hottie wants to do anything with me. - lol. Somebody must fall for it, or they would not bother. That's unless bulk spam has a different purpose than finding folks to dupe (I dunno what that could be though).
Yeah, Gmail filters spam well. Occasional false positives, but I can live with that. What I do not like about Google is how they seem to share or allow outfits like Meta/Facebook to access browser history. I go on FB much less these days, but the stuff Zuckerface tends to spam my feed with is usually very similar to what I watch on UA-cam, or search on Google. That and a bunch of garbage paid for posts I have no interest in and did not ask for.
I am trying DuckDuck Go. What a silly name. TBH, it is almost as commercial as Google. Search results trying to sell me stuff instead of giving me information about the search topic -- the information superhighway has become the advertising superhighway.
What annoys me far more than spam is nag-mail. I use a lot of digital audio workstation software. Some of them seem to think the more they email me offers, the more likely I am to buy something. I am less likely to buy stuff if they annoy me. Sometimes account settings help, sometimes not.
My dad used to joke "the only email I get is offers for hair regrowth products and ED boner pills - how do they know?". He was funny as eff sometimes. A Boomer that liked video games too (just old school ones like AOE and C&C etc).
P.S. I know somebody who likes to use cracked software. A young fella. I told him how almost all cracked software these days has trojan horse viruses. The days of hackers being completive about being the first to upload working cracks are long gone. Most cracks these days have ulterior motives. They may want to steal data like banking details. They might want to get your computer mining Bitcoin etc. They might want to use your computer remotely and as part of a network for DDoS attacks. The thing to look out for is unusual actively, e.g., the CPU, GPU, or network interface working hard when the computer should be idling (fans working hard is not usually that though -- it's usually that their calibration and fan curves are wonky).
"Who the heck falls for spam anyway?" Just enough to make it work. You'd be surprised.
Should I click Unsubscribe on those spam emails?
NEVER unsubscribe from spam. You'll just get more spam. Details: askleo.com/how_do_i_unsubscribe_from_all_these_unwanted_emails/
@@askleonotenboom Yeah. I would've thought "unsubscribing" is just telling the SPAMMERS that you're opening their emails.
When u unsubscribe from a email sender & it asks for your email, should u provide your email or is that mistake - cuz that sender will pass your email around - resulting into more spam emails?
Depends on who you're unsubscribing from. Legitimate ones won't result in more spam.
One thing to think about is your email address was sold or stolen on some website you put your email address a while ago.
I need to stop myself from looking to see what's in there. So frustrating. You're right Gmail is pretty good at stopping it. I was using Yahoo for my personal email and Gmail for business.
I don't get it. i've opened some of these emails and there is nothing to buy so what's in it for them?
It's really unclear. I get lots of spam that begs the question "what's the point?". Nonetheless, there it is.
So I have an Yahoo account. All of a sudden my Spam emails are coming into my inbox. It wasn't before but now its getting to be a headache. What do I need to do?
Mark them as spam.
@@askleonotenboom I’ve tried that, Leo. It appears to get even worse. So much of it is going into my yahoo inbox.
What to do if accounts are opened with my email and my name?
If it's YOUR email then only you could have made the account -- if it really is the account. You generally have to confirm your email address before an account is created.
@@askleonotenboom thank you. I didn’t create them, it sounds like they’re all fake. They’re just trying to make go in there and give my info, but I’m not going to.
I have a spam email that I use when I need to buy something from a small business, but I use my Gmail address for institutions and large retailers, they seem to not sell your email.
I got scam email that my account access suspicious and I did reply on this email what should I do but I did not open any attachments
If all you did was reply, I would simply ignore any further attempts to contact you that seem like a scam.
Most of my accounts are outlook, yahoo, and aol. I have about 20 of them which are topic-specific: Personal, Financial, Vendors, Entertainment, Shopping, Travel, etc. I've have only seen spam on one of my personal accounts which has been around for years. Outlook tends to error on the side of sending legitimate to SPAM. I was playing on a pc disconnected from the network to see what these "image-only" spam emails do when you click the image, I haven't been able to get any of them to do anything, do they just confirm a working email to get more spam or scams on?
I keep getting these friends with benefits/ dating spam emails all of a sudden.
same i did the wrong and gave my email to a robux scam and then i wanted to visit a bad sight and i sent it and did the wrong but now i regret my life ever since i did and i get flooded with hundreds of spam a day but i donmt worry anymore i just delete my spam once in awhile
Drowning in a sudden flood of spam? Here’s what to do.
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
I unsubscribe and mark as spam for everything, yet now a days the unsubscribe button doesn't work... I even got some where they say to write to the company to stop these email... this is crap.
Never "unsubscribe" from spam. It just gets you more spam. Mark as spam instead.
@@askleonotenboom Really? ! I never would have guessed.
I get emails all the time in my spam folder claiming to be microsoft, account suspicious activity emails. Should i be worried? Could they be real? Is it that common for legit microsoft emails to get that many false positives?
It's unlikely that they're legit. Probably just spam.
I have Gmail and i rarely get spam. My spam folder is most of the time empty.
Mine was that way until about a year ago, then the SPAM started flooding in. Don't worry, your time will come.
Hmm weird, I have a Tutanota email and I have NEVER EVER received a spam.
What happens if you accidentally open a spam email?
Usually nothing.
A bunch of undisclosed recipients' Gmail, all related to sex.....what's happening ??? Crazy annoying! How to stop those trash people and trash Gmail? Is there anybody who knows how to stop them? Thank you!!!
Mark them as spam and move on.
Outlook is the worst
Well, it sure ain't the best.
Should I delete the spam emails?
If they're in your spam folder I expect your email provider will delete them eventually. Generally there's no harm in deleting them yourself, but generally not worth the effort.
What about yahoo?
What about it?
@@askleonotenboom does yahoo have a good spam filter?
@@elona.147 Meh. In my experience it's just OK. There are better (Gmail), there are worse (Outlook.com).
thank you
Thanks Leo