They keep emailing me... Grrrrr!
By getbiswa2000
@getbiswa2000 (5544)
India
August 31, 2010 12:52am CST
Hi,
My inbox is overfilled with junk mails. It looks like the tummy of a human being. The more he goes 'there', the more hungry he is. So, the tummy is never empty. I declare them spam, I curse them, I ignore them, I even change the service, but they keep coming like gnats.
Sometimes, I suspect, they use multiple email ids for this purpose. I declare one spam and then emails keep coming from some other id. I keep on ignoring and they keep on creating new ids, probably at the same rate.
I wonder if there is any efficient way to prevent them from pouring into my inbox. I used to work on microworkers, so I had to sign up in several sites. Now I get emails from sites which I don't even remember signing up into. It's really nasty.
Should I burn my computer? Should I bury it somewhere safe?
Thanks in advance for your participation.
God bless you.
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17 responses
@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
31 Aug 10
This is all part of marketing strategies. Haven't you ever received emails addressed to a different name and you wonder, ok so who is so and so. Well marketers create their own automatic mailing lists. They use all common names and attach @ all ISP providers.
Let say they use yahoo, yahoo then sends the marketers the closets name possible and the marketer by right is suppose to select if this is correct. So imagine they do these lists a zillion times. It is a great email mailing list strategy. Unfortunately we are the ones who get overwhelmed and bombarded.
@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
1 Sep 10
I hear you on goofy part some days I just want to take my inbox and burn it. But then right when I am going to say delete all, Yikes there is something important there. Uhmmm
@saphrina (31551)
• South Africa
31 Aug 10
uuuummmm, okay first of all, biswa.
If you burn or bury your computer, how the hell will you talk to me then??
Secondly, ignore them and delete them.
Change your password.
That ought to help.
It happened to me a lot and since i have changed my password it went away, then they hacked me.
So, whatever you do, you won't win.
Sorry.
TATA.
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@getbiswa2000 (5544)
• India
31 Aug 10
Hi sweetheart,
You've raised a very legitimate question there. I shouldn't bury or burn my computer then. Due to my memory issue I don't change my passwords frequently. Also all the good things I see around me are already named and used as password at least for once. If I change my password now, I must use 'saphie'. You are right. There is no way I can possible win this game. Thanks.
God bless you
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@yoursjannat (839)
• India
31 Aug 10
Or you could open an email id called pissedmailshere@something.com and teach young kids how to forward mails by opening your email account to them!!
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@kalav56 (11464)
• India
31 Aug 10
I think this is a side effect of our signing up for various sites.My inbox is always full and my spam box is normally bursting in its seams. I just ignore it and literally turn a blind eye to it an d one fine day I select them and delete them.THis is the price I pay for signing up in multiple sites and looking for opportunities to earn.so I grin and bear it.
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@getbiswa2000 (5544)
• India
31 Aug 10
Oh dear. That's so sweet. I think I gotta hire someone from the money I get from online. His sole job will be to delete these junks. I think we should cut more trees so that people understand how serious the matter is. Using paper will restrict junks mails undoubtedly.
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@rameshprabhu (190)
• India
31 Aug 10
i think you can unsubscribe from that for getting mails again , these junk mails often goes in spam but some gets into ur regular thing may you juz becoz your friends could subscribed and try sending that , try someting at the end of the email to block again from receiving it is present at the end of the mail
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@Guit08 (597)
• United States
31 Aug 10
My advice would be that before you delete them, you report them as spam so that in the future they will be filtered into your spam/junk folder. Also, don't sign up for any more sites that may be sending you strange emails!
Real sites that you have joined in the past and don't want to receive their emails anymore, you should be able to opt out by going to the website and logging into your account.
@getbiswa2000 (5544)
• India
1 Sep 10
Dear,
Microworkers pays us for signing up and doing similar jobs. The earning opportunity is just inviting. This is by far the easiest way of earning money online. I know it is those sites that are sending me junk mails, but it is really difficult to resist earning like that. I think I should reduce number of sites and try earning in some other way. Thanks.
God bless you
@aurorastorm (1131)
• United States
31 Aug 10
I have had this problem, one day when I had a lot of e-mails, I went through opened each one and followed the instructions on how to unsubscribe. It has helped a little, but I am afraid it will never completely go away. Even if you burn your computer, they will still find you I think.
@robertjvan (289)
• United States
1 Sep 10
If you burn your computer they will swamp your mailbox, and the telephone.
@sudiptacallingu (10879)
• India
31 Aug 10
I too get junk mails by dozens and I simply ignore them. most of the times, they are an entire page long so its easy for me to just select them all and delete them in one go. Sometimes, though they are in between important mails and then I’ve to search them out…and then, there’s the separate Spam section too, which can be emptied out in a jiffy. So I just don’t bother about such mails
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@getbiswa2000 (5544)
• India
31 Aug 10
Sudipta babe, 
You are so cool. I wish I could be as cool as you. I think I must work out some plan to forward these junk mails to some other id. May be I should use a totally different id to subscribe to those sites. I have to subscribe you know, I am a microworker for God's sake. May be I'll postpone burning and burying my computer until next year. Thanks so much for your response.
God bless you
You are so cool. I wish I could be as cool as you. I think I must work out some plan to forward these junk mails to some other id. May be I should use a totally different id to subscribe to those sites. I have to subscribe you know, I am a microworker for God's sake. May be I'll postpone burning and burying my computer until next year. Thanks so much for your response.
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
31 Aug 10
i THINK THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN U SIGN UP FOR SO MANY THINGS. i DON'T & I GET VERY LITTLE JUNK MAIL ON THE COMPUTER OR W/REGULAR MAIL. i'M VERY GLAD I DON'T.
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@allyoftherain (7208)
• United States
31 Aug 10
Oh yes. You should probably burn your computer. That would get rid of the spam. 
... of course you wouldn't be able to do anything else with the computer either. I always minimize the number of sites that I give my e-mail address to. I have a separate e-mail address for friends and work, so the spam usually just ends up in one e-mail address. I never get too much for it to be a huge problem.
... of course you wouldn't be able to do anything else with the computer either. I always minimize the number of sites that I give my e-mail address to. I have a separate e-mail address for friends and work, so the spam usually just ends up in one e-mail address. I never get too much for it to be a huge problem.@getbiswa2000 (5544)
• India
31 Aug 10
Okay. But I think I will stick the first suggestion. It's comparatively easier. 
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
3 Sep 10
Well, burning or burying your computer wouldn't make any difference at all because you would just get another computer and then you would open another email account and then the spam will find its way to you once again and the vicious cycle would start over. That said, I think that the best thing that you can do is have two different email accounts and make sure and keep your personal email separate from the spam that you will be getting.
@p3ks626 (6538)
• Philippines
31 Aug 10
I am also having the same problems with my inbox now. I also signed up for different sites about earning online. I already unsubscribed to these sites but I still keep on receiving mails from them. When I receive them during this time, I always delete them and I dont bother reading them.
@getbiswa2000 (5544)
• India
31 Aug 10
I don't bother reading them either. But some times they come with some interesting headings. I open them and see the same old trash. They may change the canals but the same unprocessed sewage flows in them. 
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@yoursjannat (839)
• India
1 Sep 10
Compare the cost of destroying an email id with a computer!!You'd better copy all email addresses to a text file and open a new email id and then send everybody mail(copied from the text file) saying that "this is my new email id.add this and delete the previous one"...
@shail1987 (39)
• India
1 Sep 10
Hello,
I can understand your problem but there is a solution to your problem too.
You can use the filter feature in Gmail,
Create a filter and mention the email id which you don't want to see in your inbox in it.
then select if mail comes with the keywords which you think are spam ,then automatically move to spam or directly move to trash.
try out it
@phong1040572 (672)
• Thailand
4 Nov 10
if you use gmail i think i can tell you the way to get rid of spam mail dear. you shouldn't burn your computer. it not necessary to burn it. if you still get junk mails now. just tell me.
@bodhisatya (2384)
• India
1 Sep 10
Hello Bro,
Signing up to several newsletters and unknown sites do cause this. I can only suggest that you may start using Gmail as an option as they filter spams relatively better. Atleast thats what I find. mark your spams as Spam but don't reply back as they will get worse and even send more such mails to you.
One of the tiniest price tags which "Technology" comes along with!
@warvial (1146)
• Singapore
1 Sep 10
Don't burn your computer, burn that email address. (Okay just kidding) I encounter the same situation as well and thus now, I don't even bother unsub from their emailing list because it doesn't make things better. I create a few new emails instead. And then, it seems like the inactive your email account is, the less spam/junk stuffs will get into it. Of course it's not a solution but that's what I note.
Anyway, I mentioned I created a few email accounts right? One of them is specially to cater for signing up those sites, thus, it's gonna be tons of spam mails which is unavoidable. But when you are signing up with those sites, lookout for the signup stuffs because some of the spam emails can be prevented by not including them within your signup terms and condition.
@lindaharding627 (1442)
• United States
1 Sep 10
I got tired of the spam emails too. One day I was doing a site called 10bux.net and there was a new email service on there that is free and promises to help reduce spam. It is called breakthru.com so I signed up there. I love it. The only emails that go to your inbox are those that are on an approved senders list. All other emails go to a filtered email box then you can look through them, get rid of the spam and send the ones that you want to your email address box by using the approved senders feature. It is very easy and makes checking email so much more enjoyable.
