SPAM emails

[billcubbon]

Any body know if it at all possible to stop SPAM/SCAM emails that have started to arrive every day from spoofed email addresses.

They do at least automatically go into the SPAM folder but over the past week dozens have started arriving daily. No point trying to block the specific emails or domains that they are coming from since they are spoofed addresses so continue to change.

Just getting rather annoying.

[gg30340]

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@billcubbon wrote:

Any body know if it at all possible to stop SPAM/SCAM emails that have started to arrive every day from spoofed email addresses. You could try setting up "Rules" but it may well be a waste of time.

They do at least automatically go into the SPAM folder but over the past week dozens have started arriving daily. No point trying to block the specific emails or domains that they are coming from since they are spoofed addresses so continue to change.That is correct. Best just to wait until the spam filters catch up or the spammer move on to some other sucker.

Just getting rather annoying. Suck it up. It is only a first world problem. You could live in a war zone!

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[billcubbon]

Hi @gg30340 

Thought that was probably the case.

Set a few rules up to get rid of some of the common repeat offenders , e.g. 'Your McAfee subscription has expired',  but there are so many others.  Just annoying that up until a few weeks ago, only used to get a few a week, but over the past week or so getting 30 or 40 a day and that's after having the same email for 20 years.

Just a shame it's not possible to block the original source of the mails with a rule, which I'm sure BT could do quite easily facilitate.

[licquorice]

Do you not think that if it was easy they would have done it.

[colpatben]

This has been happening daily to us for several days and this morning I deleted 45 spam emails from my wife’s bt account!

They all come in overnight I have little knowledge of Spam, so how/where are such messages generated?

Do I have to grin and bear it and do this every day for the rest of our lives?

Or should I create a new email address and circulate it to all of her contacts, friends, utilities et al? A task in itself!

Firefox browser (in ‘Private Window’), on Windows 11.

[licquorice]

Spam comes and goes, it's a game of cat and mouse between the spammers and service providers.

[JordanTA]

@billcubbon I'll drop you a DM to get some examples, and I'll pass them onto our email platform team.

[Andy_N]

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@colpatbenwrote:

This has been happening daily to us for several days and this morning I deleted 45 spam emails from my wife’s bt account!

They all come in overnight I have little knowledge of Spam, so how/where are such messages generated?

Do I have to grin and bear it and do this every day for the rest of our lives?

Or should I create a new email address and circulate it to all of her contacts, friends, utilities et al? A task in itself!

Firefox browser (in ‘Private Window’), on Windows 11.

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Of course, the issue is not just spammers guessing, dictionary searches, if 'name' exists, then so might name1, name2 .... name104 etc, also - it's not only yourself being careful, it's any contacts/friends also being careful with your address. It could take one compromised system for all that person's contacts to become part of the spam lists.

Antispam systems will catch up, but there could be a bow wave before that happens.

Spam is typically generated by systems that **bleep** spammers use - some make mistakes which shows when the received spam emails contain field addresses. Spam has actually been a lot worse many years ago, but can still be a problem for some people.

[colpatben]

Thanks for reply, it sort of makes sense.

However as most of these emails are made up of two parts which are much the same.

IE info@noreplay.com (yes it is misspelled).

If I highlight an email and then open the drop down box in my BT email window and select More > Mark as spam and block domain. Why do they still keep coming as I have specifically informed BT that I DO NOT want any emails from a this domain but they still keep coming!

Or does this mean nothing to BT and I have to wait until 3rd party Antispam systems catch up

[licquorice]

The address is spoofed m, that is not where it is coming from.

I have no idea why folks get so upright about spam. It's a fact of modern life, just delete it.