NoshowJones Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 I have been getting junk mail for weeks now from viagra companies, they even keep asking me to allow them to phone me. I have never even inquired about viagra, and how could they have got my phone number? I let them pile up in my junk mail box, there is now 84 of them, I thought they would have been deleted after 10 days. I have blocked them time and time again. Just how do I get rid of them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJCM Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 Do the emails show your phone number ? If not, then it's just Phishing, best is to ignore them and delete them and let them go directly in the "Round archive" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giddyup Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 Do the emails show your phone number ? If not, then it's just Phishing, best is to ignore them and delete them and let them go directly in the "Round archive" My Gmail sends all that stuff directly to SPAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pib Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 Gmail does indeed do a excellent job in putting such junk email into your Spam folder which you can look at or not. I look at my Spam folder about once a week and I have to say that gmail does almost a 100% job of keeping Spam out of you inbox and puts it in your Spam folder for review at your leisure...and if you don't review it any Spam over 30 days old gets deleted automatically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJCM Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 Do the emails show your phone number ? If not, then it's just Phishing, best is to ignore them and delete them and let them go directly in the "Round archive" My Gmail sends all that stuff directly to SPAM. My Gmail sends them directly to the "Bin" How ??just create a filter "Matches: is:spam Do this: Delete it" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoshowJones Posted January 29, 2016 Author Share Posted January 29, 2016 Do the emails show your phone number ? If not, then it's just Phishing, best is to ignore them and delete them and let them go directly in the "Round archive" Yes, they do, it gives a persons name and asks it if is OK to contact me on xxxxx xxxxx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoshowJones Posted January 29, 2016 Author Share Posted January 29, 2016 Do the emails show your phone number ? If not, then it's just Phishing, best is to ignore them and delete them and let them go directly in the "Round archive" My Gmail sends all that stuff directly to SPAM. Mine goes straight to JUNK mail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoshowJones Posted January 29, 2016 Author Share Posted January 29, 2016 Gmail does indeed do a excellent job in putting such junk email into your Spam folder which you can look at or not. I look at my Spam folder about once a week and I have to say that gmail does almost a 100% job of keeping Spam out of you inbox and puts it in your Spam folder for review at your leisure...and if you don't review it any Spam over 30 days old gets deleted automatically. I wish Hotmail did that. do they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJCM Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 Gmail does indeed do a excellent job in putting such junk email into your Spam folder which you can look at or not. I look at my Spam folder about once a week and I have to say that gmail does almost a 100% job of keeping Spam out of you inbox and puts it in your Spam folder for review at your leisure...and if you don't review it any Spam over 30 days old gets deleted automatically.I wish Hotmail did that. do they? They do. https://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/spam-prevent.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJCM Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 (edited) Do the emails show your phone number ? If not, then it's just Phishing, best is to ignore them and delete them and let them go directly in the "Round archive" Yes, they do, it gives a persons name and asks it if is OK to contact me on xxxxx xxxxx. That is not ordinary spam. Any idea where they are located ? It could be that it's the same BS as here in Thailand when you buy (for example) a car and you get pestered (by Insurance Agents) about the time your car insurance is up for renewal Edit: But how did they get hold of both your Email and Phone Number ? Phone Number yes but email at the same time ? Edited January 29, 2016 by MJCM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoshowJones Posted January 29, 2016 Author Share Posted January 29, 2016 Gmail does indeed do a excellent job in putting such junk email into your Spam folder which you can look at or not. I look at my Spam folder about once a week and I have to say that gmail does almost a 100% job of keeping Spam out of you inbox and puts it in your Spam folder for review at your leisure...and if you don't review it any Spam over 30 days old gets deleted automatically.I wish Hotmail did that. do they? They do. https://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/spam-prevent.aspx Thanks, I will get on to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoshowJones Posted January 29, 2016 Author Share Posted January 29, 2016 Do the emails show your phone number ? If not, then it's just Phishing, best is to ignore them and delete them and let them go directly in the "Round archive" Yes, they do, it gives a persons name and asks it if is OK to contact me on xxxxx xxxxx. That is not ordinary spam. Any idea where they are located ? It could be that it's the same BS as here in Thailand when you buy (for example) a car and you get pestered (by Insurance Agents) about the time your car insurance is up for renewal Edit: But how did they get hold of both your Email and Phone Number ? Phone Number yes but email at the same time ? I do not know where they are located, they also keep asking me to confirm my address in Phichit (I live in that province). I don't know how they got my e-mail address and phone number, and yes, both at the same time. They must have lots of people working for them, or maybe the same person using different names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJCM Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 (edited) Can you do this ? http://www.emailquestions.com/threads/outlook-com.5296/ and paste those headers here or send it to me via PM ?Please note: Before posting or PM remove your personal info, like email address, name, phone number etc Edited January 29, 2016 by MJCM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisinth Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 Do the emails show your phone number ? If not, then it's just Phishing, best is to ignore them and delete them and let them go directly in the "Round archive" Yes, they do, it gives a persons name and asks it if is OK to contact me on xxxxx xxxxx. That is not ordinary spam. Any idea where they are located ? It could be that it's the same BS as here in Thailand when you buy (for example) a car and you get pestered (by Insurance Agents) about the time your car insurance is up for renewal Edit: But how did they get hold of both your Email and Phone Number ? Phone Number yes but email at the same time ? I do not know where they are located, they also keep asking me to confirm my address in Phichit (I live in that province). I don't know how they got my e-mail address and phone number, and yes, both at the same time. They must have lots of people working for them, or maybe the same person using different names. The last thing you want to do, even to complain or make your thoughts better aired, is to reply to any of the mails you are receiving. This will flag your address as being "live". It certainly doesn't sound like normal blanket spam, not with the addition of your phone number. Do all the emails come from the same address, or at least the same domain, ie, [email protected]? If they all come from the same domain, blacklist it by *[email protected] , have them all sent to the deleted items folder and forget about them............... (not sure how you blacklist with your client) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoshowJones Posted January 29, 2016 Author Share Posted January 29, 2016 Thanks Chrisinth, that's a big help to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicog Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 Sounds like you or someone with your contact details has been Phished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maybole Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 I am using Outlook, there is an arrow next to the junk mail button scroll it down and you will find Block. Try that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoshowJones Posted January 30, 2016 Author Share Posted January 30, 2016 Can you do this ? http://www.emailquestions.com/threads/outlook-com.5296/ and paste those headers here or send it to me via PM ? Please note: Before posting or PM remove your personal info, like email address, name, phone number etc http://www.emailquestions.com/threads/outlook-com.5296/ Is this what you want? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoshowJones Posted January 30, 2016 Author Share Posted January 30, 2016 I am using Outlook, there is an arrow next to the junk mail button scroll it down and you will find Block. Try that. I cannot see an arrow next to the junk mail button. On my blocked mail senders, it is absolutely full of blocked e-mails that I never put there, and the ones I put there yesterday are not there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJCM Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 (edited) Can you do this ? http://www.emailquestions.com/threads/outlook-com.5296/ and paste those headers here or send it to me via PM ? Please note: Before posting or PM remove your personal info, like email address, name, phone number etc http://www.emailquestions.com/threads/outlook-com.5296/ Is this what you want? This is an example of Email Headers Edited January 30, 2016 by MJCM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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