How To Really Stop Getting Spam Email
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
- macmost.com/e-2135 There is a lot of bad advice out there when it comes to stopping junk email. People will tell you time-consuming ways to get marginally less spam. But there is really only one method that will solve the problem of getting too much spam. And oddly, few tech advisors talk about it.
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4:18 Skip here. That's when he starts to talk of what you can do.
Thank you so much
My GAWD! Thank you. I wanted to slap him.
Thank you for the time stamp!
Thank you so much 🤣🤣
not helping even after 4:18
Shiiiiiit I came here because I was getting a lot of spam to my GMAIL
omg tysm, every 10 minutes id get atleast 100 inapropiate emails
Same
Same
How did you stop it?
@@SlugKa I am interested too :D
@@SlugKa you get alot of spams still????
Gary is very correct here.
And Microsoft Exchange has thousands, maybe tens of thousands of filtering keywords in their mail systems. I have visually reviewed the extent of this and it can be somewhat aggressive, but their approach is very significant.
so how do i block the spam on hotmail, my inbox 99% spam it so frustrating?????????????????????????????
To make it clear, this is about having as much of the SPAM you DO get going directly to your SPAM box rather than your In Box.
yeah...he didn't quiet say that the SPAM will just bypass your inbox and go into your junkmail. He made it seem like it will not reach any of your inboxes at all
Which is fucking USELESS
@@AcidTechnoMan5000
How is that useless, genius ?
Please explain.
@@ccdogpark I'm thinking what they meant is if it's spam, then why do we need to see it at all. So much of it is quite obvious.
Its pretty useless cause you actually may have some newsletters "spamming" your legit inbox that you prefer to stay in the junk mail folder and then you have to scroll trough 100s of spam mails. they should use Ai to filter spam out. it can't be so hard... or make their rules work for the junkmail for hotmail. they don't seem to wanna fight spam in any way!
Thank you!! I have used Juno email since the 80’s and now I am bombarded with junk and spam on a daily basis. Guess your advise is the way to go. I do have a Gmail account, time to use it!
I would never have guessed Juno was still in business.
I get tons of spam with hotmail also. It's good to know that the blocking feature is worthless. I don't get spam to my gmail address, so far.
Hotmail sucks! I get tons of SPAM on hotmail.
Hotmail is pretty trash when it comes to spam
There are settings in hotmail that say - ‘exclusive filter’ which means it only lets in only what I designate as ‘safe’.
Means I have to look in junk from prospective new clients. But I know my inbox has only things I want to see
The hotmail interface needs to be completely redone.
This content is forever helpful love your channel best choice I ever made ! Soon as I received my first iMac 🖥 awhile back
Nice video 👍🏼. I 've learned a lot from your channel.
Still didn’t learn how to stop it 🤔 got a lot of bs on how there is miscommunication the title of the video got me
Super helpful, thank you so much!!
Hey thank you for the information. I want to make an official Gmail account but I have had an AOL address since I was seven years old I’m 31 now. So I really don’t want to get rid of it. I also have a lot of storage on there, do you know what the best email domain is/server for keeping photo quality emails?
If you still have this issue and still using your old email address there is one thing you can do.
If you got a Gmail account you add your existing AOL email account to it in the settings and from then you receive emails addressed to your AOL in your Gmail and Gmail does very good job with filtering junk out.
You'll still receive junk on AOL but just don't access it there so you won't see it.
Also all your folders, emails, contacts will be synced to Gmail.
I had a the same issues with my old Hotmail and done this and works perfectly.
Tysm, I keep getting a crap ton of sexual and other weird kind of spam- it was making me uncomfy until I found this video. It really helped
In gmail settings blocked email addresses no option to delete so I just unblocked them based on the guidance in this video-saying it was really useless to block.
Enjoy all your videos. Will forwarding my email from my ISP to G-Mail filter out spam?
It may help, but probably not as good. Plus you'll still have all of the other problems.
This is great, so helpful! Thank you!
I have multiple spam filters that will instantly delete any spam with say; the word “Seniors” in the Subject; and the bastards STILL get through using that precise word. How do they do it?
I've always used gmail primary but the amount of spam I get in my spam box is ridiculous. But very rarely does it make it to my main inbox.
However is there a way to stop these spam emails entirely and block where they are coming from? I get like 8 a day and have done for very many years.
If they are being filtered to your spam folder automatically then it is working right. Just stop looking in your spam folder and ignore them. There's nothing more to do.
Gmail : no!!!
How long will the SAME spam come in to my gmail? Getting a ton of crap for no reason suddenly and it has been coming in for 2 weeks now
My old yahoo email only receives spam now. I have moved all of my good accounts to either gmail or proton. When is it safe to delete the yahoo account, since they allow addresses to be reused by others?
Excelent Gary! greetings from Panama!
I have a question, how to clear the storage of mail attachment? I check my disk of MacBook, a lot of room taken by email, but I can't find where should I delete it, I mean I already delete every mail, it bugs me so much, could you help me?
If you are doing this on mobile try deleting the mail app then downloading it again I don’t know how this works for other phones but it might work if you have an iPhone
From past experience, Gmail does a “much” better job handling spam than Apple. I find myself creating several rules as Apple just doesn’t seem to send much to spam.
Just because it doesn't go to the spam folder, doesn't
mean that the spam went through
@jeff1982 you are so correct!!! I’ve been having this spam issue for years!! I’ve created rules and blocked. Nothing seems to work. More will come and I have to keep ruling and blocking. SMH!!
Gmail and iCloud are my main work emails, and I use my other emails for site registration and services with low priority.
My gmail account keeps crashing - any tips
Hey Gary just found your videos thanks. I have my own custom domain,well several, I use my hosting company where the domain is hosted(hostgator) to send and recieve email in conjuction with outlook, I am gettung 200-300 spam email a day. If i was to use this domain wih gsuite, would this filter ome of the spam. I really do't want to lose this email adress. These emails seem to come from subdomains, same emails from multiple spam email addresses. Thanks Graeme
Possibly. You won't know unless you try. You could also ask your current host about better spam filter options.
Agree - iCloud and Gmail are my providers of choice - very effective at blocking spam.
Well I’m getting 15-50 spam a day using gmail.. that’s why I’m looking for a solution.
Great tips Garry. Is my iCloud account the one I have as my “ @me “ account? I’m just not sure. (If it is, I agree with the filtering, I rarely get spam there). Thanks. 🇨🇦
Older iCloud email accounts would have used @me.com or @mac.com. They are the same as @icloud.com today.
been using outlook and I get junk every day. wondering if I can improve the service or use a filter based on most common junk words.
I'm using Gmail and all of a sudden I started getting huge amount of Spam :(
same here its annoying idk what to do
me too
Felipe M. How to get rid of
Same:(
I forgot one question: my computer mail accounts already include iCloud, gmail and hotmail. If I gravitate toward one of these, must I close the account in Mac Mail and use the gmail icon? It would be nice of Mac would get its act together and improve its monitoring system.
You can do it however you like. Continue to look at all three accounts, but you'll need to deal with the good and bad from all three. Or you can move toward eliminating one or more. You can always do a monthly check on the web with an old account to make sure you didn't miss anything. it is up to you how you handle it.
Great advice - thanks. :-)
Gary, I have gmail and I've tried everything I know (which amounts to very little) to get people to quit sending me sales flyers or notifications, etc. I've also tried dis-enrolling from their mailing list, but in ten minutes, they're right back at it. What can I do?
That's all you can do. Unsub from the legit ones, delete anything else. Hopefully at least some of it goes to your junk folder and not your inbox.
I am a bit scared. I got an email that adressed me. It was something like :
Dear *my email adress*
I always get spam, but this is the first time it directly adressed me. What should I do? Am I safe? I would really appreciate the help 😞
Don’t be scared man I know it sucks but even I don’t know what to do I’ll let you know when I do
Thx, I'm having trouble with people receiving my gmails...sometimes nothing, sometimes can't open. Is there a video for that. TY. Thomas
Hard to know what your problem could be. For troubleshooting it is best to get firsthand help from an expert.
Great video. Maybe do something similar with How To Really Stop Spam SMS Messages, or How To Really Stop Spam Phone Calls.
I wish I knew the answer to that! It is really up to the phone providers to do that. They are getting better, but so are the spammers. Check your provider's site as they may have some free tools you can use. I know AT&T does.
There is no spam SMS or phone calls in Europe AT ALL. Why? Because it’s illegal! Write a letter to your congressman or move to Europe! (And get a free university education and healthcare, while you’re at it!)
Great video, Gary. I have been trying to cut my spam for ages. Nothing works. Would another option be getting a new email address every year? Using the same user name (so family knows it) and adding the year to the end? Or would that just be the same as adding a + and those types of strategies? Thanks for your advice.
Changing your email address every year would be problematic. Never mind about people who email you, think about all of your accounts where you use your email as your ID.
Check out HEY email.
@@macmost Hi there. I was actually just wondering myself, but is there any possible way at all to completely stop having spam e-mails being sent to your e-mail addresses and accounts? I just thought of asking in case if it was ever possible or something somehow. At one of my e-mail accounts that I have, I've been receiving a lot of spam and junk mail now for the past several months already and it seems to be happening just about every single day too. I'm even receiving spam e-mails from e-mail addresses that I already have blocked even though they're still being sent to me somehow. My e-mail account shouldn't have been hacked or anything though because if it ever was, I would probably know by now already since I probably wouldn't be able to sign into it or something, so I know it's not my actual account or anything and there shouldn't be anything wrong with it either. There's also nothing strange being sent from my e-mail address and my e-mail account since I check it every day and there's nothing out of the ordinary except for the spam e-mails I've been receiving in my junk folder.
I get hundreds of spam emails everyday in my Gmail account. It's frustrating. Most of them come from specific countries that I never have any dealing with, but there is no way to block top level domains through filters or rules.
same here
Try Protonmail: no spam!
Thank you. Good advice
My main problem is that I get spam sent to my Messages app on my computer AND my iPhone. There are solutions for filtering on my iPhone, but nothing I can find will filter for Messages on the Mac. Any suggestions?
The filtering should work for both, since both should be in sync. Make sure you are using Messages in iCloud.
Thanks for this valuable video.
My only issue is that Gmail and iCloud are part of the handful of players that dominate the digital universe, GAFAM: Google, Amazon, Facebook (now Metaverse), Apple and last Microsoft.
I actually do want to change my email service providers. Hotmail is not bad but again it has fallen into the shopping bag of Microsoft.
All the dice are loaded. What other alternatives are there outside of them that provide such a great hassle-free service so we stay with them and can't see a way out?
What's your concern. An advantage of using a big provider is they can filter and blacklist spam easier. That's my point here. Why not use them? If you like you can even bring your own domain name to iCloud or Gmail.
I have Gmail and STILL get a load of spam. I replied to some of them as a joke a good few months ago, and before that it wasn't an issue but now I'm getting dozens every day. There's no way I can change my email address either, I don't have the time for that and have lots of stuff on Gmail and Google drive and my photos etc... Help????
Thankyou great video
I have a Gmail account and I seem to get lots of junk mail are there settings in gmail that I should be using
G'Day Bro, wondering if you can help. Firstly what a great video. I just created a GMail account and imported emails from my primary ISP account and straight away SPAM to the spam folder. But what I would like to know, I have multiple email accounts ranging from my ISP to website email addresses, am I able to create those accounts in GMail so I have multiple email addresses/accounts in GMail?
Basically so I can check all emails addresses within GMail and not use outlook
Not sure what you are trying to do, but it sounds like you want to forward all of your email to your gmail account? I suppose just do that. Otherwise, maybe seek help from a Gmail expert.
Which one do you think is best, iCloud or Gmail?
Gmail has more features, but iCloud is definitely better from a privacy standpoint.
What if I download the Gmail app on my iPhone, and enter my main Hotmail account under gmail app? Will this work to reduce spam to my hotmail?
The Gmail app is for Gmail. I don't think you can use the Gmail app to access non-Gmail email. The idea is the filter needs to be on the server, not on your client app.
I have a gmail account and I get tons o spam emails every day . Where is the filter for gmail. I even get spam emails from an account that I had 20 years ago that comes to my gmail and rr accounts. How do I filter those out.
Sadly I get tons of spam coming to both my .mac and .iCloud addresses. Apple doesn't really seem to do a good job on spam detection, and neither their web client nor their desktop client provide blocking by domain. I don't want to use Google since they are a privacy problem.
How much is "tons" exactly? And do you mean spam in your inbox, or spam in your junk folder? How do you know that it wouldn't be 10x or 100x if it wasn't for Apple's serves blocking a lot of it?
Does all the blocked spam go to the gmail spam folder
or does most of it just get completely blocked without the
user ever seeing it ?
It is a mix. If a server is identified as being used for massive spam email, it will be blacklisted and the messages will just be rejected from the email service like Gmail. But otherwise they go to your spam folder in case there is a false positive.
I have a gmail and an iCloud address. My primary is iCloud and it is full of spam recently and none on gmail. Do you know why? Thank you
Impossible for me to say. Do you mean in your inbox? Just delete them and move on.
I have an iPhone 12 max pro. I just went to settings and the only thing that will be different when I set it to Google is that it will only send my email from Google. My prime email is still the phone’s default email.
What do I do please?
Not sure what you are asking. You can add and remove accounts as you like. If you don't want an account there anymore, remove it.
My iCloud address has worked well for decades, checked it a lot only at first. The headache-filter option was a nightmare, also very true that old addresses still belong and transferring practically impossible.Thanks excellent information as always :))
By "decades", it would only be back to 2000, when iTools was released, at the latest. I still have an old .Mac address for that reason. So really we're talking 22 years.
As a long time hotmail user i can tell you that legitimate emails get sent to my junk folder while my inbox in full of spam SO FRUSTRATING... and its only getting worse... should i move to another provider? is that the only solution?
Maybe. How many per day?
i have a website email and icloud email. can i forward my website email through icloud so the spam filter would work?
It may, but it could create more problems than it solves. Go to your website email service and see if you can set up spam controls there. Or, move it to a server that can.
Hi Gary, talking of emails, I don’t get many spam emails, I don’t think! Most of my emails are on my IPad , iPhone and that’s where I want them to be! But I also have a Mac book pro , which I don’t use for emails or really going online, I bought the MacBook to do video editing from my drone etc for that purpose only, but when checking on my storage I see something like 6.9 GB is taken up from my storage! as EMAILS and I cannot see anything at all in Inbox ,Trash, archives etc etc, so what’s using this GBs and how can I delete it please? thanks in anticipation, 👍I am a subscriber to your channel.
Isnt there a cost in using i cloud etc? thankyou
Basic iCloud is free with 5GB of space. With that you can sync things like Notes, Calendar, Reminders, Contacts, bookmarks, etc. And also use iCloud email. But for a few dollars a month you can get more space and features. support.apple.com/en-us/HT201238
I use outlook on my iMac and iPhone. My iPhone gets a lot of junk mail and is not filtered out like it is on my iMac. Why is this? Is there a setting on my iPhone I am missing?
Are you using Rules or Junk filters in the Mail app on your Mac? That would be why. No way to do that on an iPhone. You need to rely on the server to do the filtering. See what options you have available with your service.
i dont recommend microsofts email. the amount of times it makes me change passwords because they're "wrong". ive even lost email accounts that i had way before and i just couldn't access them anymore.
I blocked and flagged the email address but it still receives in my inbox. It even shows the block sign on the sign
I randomly got 800+ spam emails yesterday on my Gmail. Is there a way to correct this? Also I only ever get like 1 to 3 spam emails a day.
Just delete them and move on. Were they the same message, or similar? Should be easy to search and delete them all then.
Thank You !
So how do I stop getting spam from the bulk spammers? I see where they have me as an “aol” email and I’ve never used aol. I use my “Rules” to black all these bulk spammers. I’ve always used my @mac and @gmail and still get crap emails.
Unless the email server is going to block them, you can't. You either have to live with the spam that gets through, or switch to a better ISP.
G'Day MMV I have been 100% blocking all spam for going on 20 years using a system called No Spam Accepted ( #NSA ) it is an AI powered real time WAN fingerprinting not content filtering and a technique called Dedicated Email Addressing ( #DEA ) these systems put the inbound SMTP session from spammers to sleep, sometimes up to 20 minutes. Why give spammers a great service ? We also have a technique call DEA Relay, were 2 people share the same address for inbound and outbound messaging. Anyone talking about 'filtering' has no idea how to stop spam.
I get tons of spam in my Google spam e-mail box.
Me too
Thank you!
What camera do you use to record videos?
Currently I use a Sony a6100 connected to an Elgato Cam Link 4K.
but how can they made so many spam email address............that is impossible.........I have blocked more that one thousand of it and it still coming more..........then what do we do if we can't block it???
Watch the video. Blocking doesn't work as they just use random fake email addresses anyway.
Thanks, I got fed up and started blocking all spam but I’ll stop wasting my time lol
Yes that definitely is a waste of time, unless it is a legit company that is just annoying.
I have Gmail and i still get spam mail, but its separate from my in box. So about every 3 days i go to my spam mail and delete all, but i would be nice if Gmail would do that for me?
It already does. Spam only lives in there for 30 days. No way to shorten it, but no need to either. 30 days gives you time to check occasionally when someone asks if you "got that email I sent you" to see if it is in there. But 30 days is short enough so it won't accumulate too much. No need to deal with it manually at all.
I have despair from a list of "ladies" who would like me to enjoy their charms (a bit difficult to say the least for an 84-year-old.) Going through the list of videos on SPAM, I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw a video from Macmost. I have iCloud and also gmail, so I'll make more use of one or the other.
Hi Macmos:
The spam comes into my inbox, I move it to my junk folder and it keeps coming there. If I try to unsubscribe, it asks for my email address which I don’t want to give them. It is everything from casinos to offers for sex or sex-related topics to pseudo-emails from people on my email list offering to show me pictures of themselves, to stuff in foreign languages to fake emails saying my Netflix account is dead or I have a problem with Amazon and this is just a few of the topics. I typically get ten to 30 a day, adding up to hundreds a week. It all started with a huge influx of about 200 8 months ago and it just keeps coming.
The only thing Apple has to suggest is that I delete them. Blocking takes too much time and doesn’t work.
If you have any suggestions, I’d love to hear them.
Annette Amelia
Yes, Delete them. You are giving them too much of your time. Press the Delete key on your keyboard and move on. But if you do see an "unsubscribe" then try it. A lot of times it will work with just that one click.
Gary maybe you can help me. Im texting a person in my contacts and instead of it going to their phone its going to their email address. Thoughts ?
Depends on how the other person is set up. For most people. there shouldn't be any difference.
I use LIVE and I’m constantly deleting spam garbage. Even says to “others” and misses a letter or two close to mine and I still get spam!
Can't I sue them? Actually, won't the be prosecuted and sent to jail if I report?
I have outlook and the amount of spam I get on a daily basis is ridiculous and I cannot seem to control it…HELP!
As usual Gary, keep it simple and it will be fun!! Shalom :-)
thank you
I use gmail. I keep getting spam from Shoptime which is in Spanish. I have blocked them, unsubscribed, sent them stop and nothing is working. Any help?
Just add a Gmail filter to send anything with that company name in the text to spam.
I came here to minimize the spam I'm receiving in my iCloud account. The amount of time it takes to delete all of the emails I don't want is ridiculous. Hundreds per day. It's stupid. And disheartening to know there is really no fix. Makes me want to give up email.
First, are these in your inbox or in your junk mail folder? I'll assume you mean in your inbox. Then are these true spam (unsolicited messages from companies you have never done business with)? If you get email from real companies and you just want them to stop, start looking for the "unsubscribe" link, usually at the bottom. Real companies will obey this request. If you get hundreds per day, this will take some time now at the beginning, but eventually you will get less.
Have to create new email address and start over
I use iCloud and am getting a ton of spam through one of my aliases. Is there a solution for this!
The purpose of that alias is to have the ability to dump it if needed. I would make a new alias and, and slow covert your accounts to said new one, then delete the alias that's getting all the Spam.
Great advise, thank you sir,
Hotmail is the worst. I literally just got over 100 spam emails in one night on Hotmail. I just wanna shut down the account its so bad. I think Google is pretty good but sometimes they will take things you have signed up for and put in spam folder if you don't respond or open that companies emails
Still receiving alot of emails from blocked sender on my junk mail would you help !!?
How, exactly, did you block this address? Are you sure the email is coming "from" the same address?
Hey man thanks for reaching out to me.
Ok first i went to my settings and move to mail and then move blocked sender to trash and on each message i click to the name and turn blue and again I click the blue like and i blocked them from there !! Thank you
@@kamiloj7407 Not sure what you are describing there, but my first guess is that they are not sending from the same address each time.
@@macmost i have a doubt. I receive spam from nonsense accounts, but recently, those same accounts now also show my own email in them.
For example, a spma email about a roofing quote used to be : jfjdksie67@azure.app or something, but now that it is k72737@morenonsense(myemailadress).com
Why does this happen? It started after I started blocking some pf those nonsense accounts. It it dangerous for my email to be included? It is spoofing or a way for them to get through the filters?? Please, I wold appreciate the help
@@galletasist When a spammer sends an email, they can use anything they want as the "from" address, in including the same address they are sending TO. It means nothing. Just another way to get past any rules or filters you have set up since you are unlikely to block yourself.
Outlook is extremely good at getting rid of spam I have had hardly any and while some there has been a really good feature where they automatically have “focused emails” and do well filtering
Fantastic as always!
Google also does a great job of spying on your private life through your email too.
Is the Apple @me as good as the @icloud option
Not sure what you mean. If you get a new Apple email address today, it is @iCloud.com. Only older addresses would be @me.com.
haha what a load of crap. hotmail gmail etc i get between 60 and 100 spam emails a day.
I have iCloud and the is where I have my worst SPAM problem - last 2 days25 or so crap SPAM.
25 isn't too bad. Is that to your inbox or to your junk mail folder? Are these real spam messages, or just messages from companies with "unsubscribe" buttons?
Apple Mail used to have a feature called "Bounce" that worked like a "Return to Sender," I don't understand why they got rid of that.
Probably because it was useless. People would want to use it for spam, I'd imagine, but the reply-to email addresses are almost always fake anyway. And for legit subscription email, the unsubscribe link is the way to go, not a bounce.
What's up with all the Prostate 991 mails?
Thanks for wasting my time, Actually thought you had a real solution
I know, right. That was painful and a waste of time.
I have an iCloud account. Its an @me actually--One of the earlier Apple email addresses. I still get upwards of 100 spam emails a day! It drives me nuts. While they go to my Spam email inbox, im one of those people who likes to "zero out" their unread emails and keep a clean inbox/mail folders.
If they are going to your Junk box then the email server is doing its job. No need to ever empty it or even look in there unless you suspect you are missing something and what to check for a false positive. In Mail, Settings, Accounts, (select account), Mailbox Behaviors you can set the Junk mail to delete automatically.
@@macmost Gary, anyway on the mail app iOS to get it to automatically delete email in the junk folder instead of showing unread and giving a count? Also anyway of stopping any notifications for junk mail?, when I go to junk mail folder to empty it, it starts kicking out notifications on my iPhone.
@@JimFantazzia I don't think there is any setting in iOS Mail for that. But it could be on your server -- whatever you are using for email. Like if you use Gmail, try going to the Gmail site and look at the settings there.
How about stopping it at the starting point? I have isolated two IPs that send emails out representing dozens of companies for the purpose of scamming. If I can do it the experts should be able to do it and stop it.
That's what I'm talking about here. Good email ISPs will do that and they do it by the thousands. The problem with you doing it alone is that first you need to figure out which IPs to block, then you have to update daily or more often as they change. That's hard to do with such a small sample of email (on person) instead of millions of accounts.
I got an email from a do not reply spam and I forward it ,am I still safe ? And I’m using google
Forwarded it? There's no safety issue here, but whomever your forwarded spam to may be mad at you.
@@macmost it was my mom and she’s not mad
I was checking it out through her and she is the one who told me it was spam
So must be me but I still don't know how to keep them from recurring
This video is full of it! I get 100's of icloud & Google spams constantly.
That's probably because of all the porn sites you registered with, genius.
You’re kidding me with this! So the big reveal to solve my spam problems is Gmail, Microsoft, and iCloud?