Spam Email....how To Prevent

[topcatatwork]

Hope you can advide. I keep getting spam emails (20 or 30 a day) from something called Canadian Pharmacy. They are random email addresses, over 100 so far, all @yahoo.com. I attempt to block them but still they come, seemingly randomly generated. How do I stop them altogether?

[BlueToffee]

You can't. If you mark one email address as phishing then they justt use another random address. Obviously some people, somewhere, buy off them otherwise they would stop.

Like you, I get several a day, I also get many offering me penis enlargement, well, I ask you, at almost 70 what would I want with an enlargement?

[boxtops]

Yes, I get them too. Invest in a good spam filter - ours go straight into our junk mail box so they can be deleted without opening them.

If you are blocking them you might be giving away the fact that you have a real email account - far better, IMO, to junk them and delete them.

[boxtops]

what would I want with one either, toffee - and I'm not even a bloke!

[factor-fiction]

Which email provider do you use, please?
Most have a system which allows you to filter out emails based on certain criteria such as name of sender or key words from the title or email, but spammers often get round some of those by spelling words incorrectly- e.g. \/iagra

[boxtops]

...or canadian phramacy, which is the latest ploy

[EDDIE51]

I have Hotmail and I get very few spam emails, the hotmail filters get very nearly all of them and send them straight to the 'Junk' bin.

[BlueToffee]

Mine all go into the junk mail, boxtops, I select them all without opening them, mark as phishing scam, and still they come.

Ah well, keeps the postman busy I suppose!

[boxtops]

I don't mark them as anything, toffee - I just empty the junk bin very regularly :-)

[Top Cat2]

Thanks to everyone for the advice especially factor30 and I've just that idea in terms of blocking emails with certain words. Hope this works. Best regards to all.

[RATTER15]

methyl, it is no longer called Viagra, it is now known by its medical term

Mycoxafloppin.

[DSJ]

They're a pest. I get them too.