[Help] I had massive spammed mails delivered to my mailbox
By retrotulip
@retrotulip (134)
Indonesia
November 20, 2007 12:18pm CST
Dear friends,
I need help/suggestions from all you.
Yesterday, I had spammed about hundreds of email in an hour.
This email comes from The National Lottery (not sure is that real or fake).
Problem start since this person sending me spam mail.
I had warned him/her not to continue send spam mails and told he/she that I'll report to IC3, hotmail abuse control and the ISP.
It looks like this person getting mad.
He/she subscribe to so many mailing list/groups and auto forward all emails to me and makes me looks like I'm the spammer so I had sent a lot of warning message delivered to my mailbox.
After this occured, I'm report to IC3, the hotmail abuse control system, it is possible for me to mark all those mail as spam mails, since it was generated from yahoo mail system.
Once I mark it as spam, I'm afraid all mails comes from yahoo will go to bulk folder.
I also thinked about how, if I also do the same action, make a new email address and join many mailing list and forward all the the emails to him/her.
Thinking about 20 minutes, I don't think it'll solve my problem, also, I think it's not necessary spend too much time for something useless.
Maybe the fast solutions is make a new email address, but the problem is, all of my frends, I don't want to lose them and it take many times to tell them.
Any of you had experienced problem like me?
Please share.
If you want to take a look at the picture of original email header, here is the link:
http://i8.tinypic.com/7yqcom0.gif
or just take a look at the attach picture
Thank you
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2 responses
@anjalisk2005 (1492)
• India
21 Nov 07
well i guess u can report spam and block the mails to ur junk mailbox.so that u will atleast not get in ur regular mails!!
@anjalisk2005 (1492)
• India
26 Nov 07
hmmmm now i understand what u r going thru..man thats serious!!! may be u can create a new account and inform all the near and dears about it and forget this account.
@retrotulip (134)
• Indonesia
2 Dec 07
I had think about this but the problem is, I use this account also for some office related purpose, it looks like not professional if I change my email address, but thanks for let me consider this option
@retrotulip (134)
• Indonesia
25 Nov 07
anjalisk2005, the problem is not that simple.
I might describe not clearly enough.
Here is the chronological, that person sign to a lot of mailing list using my email address.
This could not be done with yahoo, so yahoo automatic system email me with error sending mail, it's not just 10 emails, I received hundreds in couple of hours.
So, the point is, that hundreds of "error sending mail" came from yahoo, if I mark it as spam, I won't be able to receive any mail/announchment from yahoo anymore.
That's why I'm asking for help actually.
I know about spam control that delivered all spam mails to bulk folder, but that won't solve my problem
@santuccie (3384)
• United States
20 Nov 07
Two problems: 1) Too many bad guys have your e-mail address by now. 2) You're using Yahoo! Mail.
Yahoo! was once recognized as the best back when it was a two-horse race, because they had the best search engine and four times as much storage as Hotmail. But years later, they haven't improved anything. They now have the weakest spam filter of them all, no customizable filters, no POP services for free users...nothing. But they know average users don't have a clue about this. They assume the name they've heard (the oldest) is the best. That's why people still open accounts with Yahoo!.
I've answered your question many times, in many different forums. Here's one of my more recent ones (see response #4): http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1325659.aspx
@retrotulip (134)
• Indonesia
21 Nov 07
Thank you santuccie,
I like your idea about bluebottle, I had consider to open a new account, but still this is not the only alternative, I'm always looking for any other suggestions
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@santuccie (3384)
• United States
21 Nov 07
0Spam is an alternative that is supposed to work with Yahoo! accounts. It wasn't very user-friendly the last time I tried it, but their change log claims it is now. You might give that one a try. If it works, you could achieve the same experience afforded to Bluebottle users, without even having to migrate: http://www.0spam.com/ Good luck!
@retrotulip (134)
• Indonesia
21 Nov 07
Nice santuccie, this might be good for me, thank you again for your good intention.
