Help over 50 spam and vile emails coming every day since the new BT email started.

[WSH]

It’s not like real mail.  It doesn’t get “sent back”.  The most it could do is send a copy back, so you would still have to delete the original, BUT:

1) if everyone did that the internet would grind to a halt, so it’s a shooting oneself in the foot exercise.  2) The return address will be spoofed, so it would not go to the spammer.  Sending it there would just saddle someone else with it, so making you the spammer.  3)  The guys sending the stuff do know how the equipment works, so even if it did get back to them, they would have it set up to automatically be deleted.

If you’ve set it up properly, it should go to your junk mail folder and so be easy enough to delete en-masse.  What you do need to do is be far more circumspect about who you give your email address to.  (Bit late now though).

[comute]

Unfortunately the one that gets the spam is the one I checked on the system that let's you check if your email address has been somehow jeopardised ....someone has probably 'sold' that email address to whoever wanted to buy it.....

What i do do with some spam is to forward it to report@phishing .gov.uk

Seems they receive lots of phishing reports... sadly

[gg30340]

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@comute wrote:

I am ' forwarding ' some 'very interesting ' spam mails to the relevent phishing address 

What i find so annoying is that i have flagged up addresses and' blocked' them as spam.....so instead of the system returning the email to sender the system just 'parks ' the email in my spam folder ......why????

What is the point of telling the system that the email address is a spammer if the system still allows the email through?????

Anyone like to have a go at an explanation that makes sense......or are we dealing with a computerised system that has been incorrectly programed on how to deal with spam???

We as the recipient of the email tell the system that it is spam so why can the system not be programed to just stop the email and send it back .....

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Depending on whose figures you look at it is estimated that 300 BILLION spam emails are sent daily.

The vast amount of these spam emails are stopped and deleted before they get anywhere near an email Inbox or Spam box. 

If it was as easy to stop them entirely, as you seem to think it should be, do you not think that the Email Service suppliers and Internet Service Providers would have stopped them by now!

[tonysmini018]

Are you using Apple’s Mail app or Outlook to access your emails?

It seems like it’s a systems wide issue as I have different accounts (personal and work) on various platforms and the amount of spam hitting them each day has gone well over 50 on each one each day. 
I think they sit in Spam now because the filter picks up much more than it used to including things from doctors and hospitals, banks and stuff you need, so rather auto-binning them it gives you time to weed them out and send them to your inbox instead.

[licquorice]

Why can't folks understand that if it was easy to stop spam it wouldn't exist!

[WSH]

At the risk of repeating myself, I’ll say it again.  People are far too willing to give out their email address.

As I said in message 18, the system I’ve worked for the last 20 years is one email address for friends and family.  A second one for personal business, banks, utilities etc.  And a third one for any muppets that feel they must have an address before you can use their website etc.  Suffice it so say, the third one gets replaced periodically.  Most of them don’t really need an email address.

Even today, I get about two or three spam emails a week and that’s on a bad week.

Be careful who you give your address to in the first place.  Most of them don't really need it.

For example, I’ve been posting on Sky’s forum, (under a different name), for the last three years using an account I forgot I'd deleted the address for.  I only remembered when somebody tried to send me a pm.  Nobody ever challenged the account not working in three years, so clearly they haven't missed it!

[licquorice]

Exactly, when hotels require email addresses to access WiFi just use something like a@b.com instead of a real address.

[comute]

you can check to see if an  email address has   been compromised by  checking here

Have I Been Pwned: Check if your email address has been exposed in a data breach

[PATBER]

I too have noticed this in the last month or so.  I have  to constantly clear out my spam box and wade through it  to make sure no legit emails have accidentally been spammed .

And having to  block  domains  one by one is tedious when there are a 50 to a 100 coming in daily. And when you add to block sender they still come. Why can't block mean they are blocked before they even reach the spam box?

I've  stayed  with BT many years and this could be the issue  that finally makes me leave.  Really fed up with it now. I never get any spam with   Gmail! 

[GeoffSmith]

This method may already have been mentioned, but I can't be bothered to read the whole thread.
A couple of years or so ago I began receiving 50-odd items of spam a day in a non-BT account.
Once a day I selected all the spam and forwarded the lot as attachments (the recommended method) to these addresses :
report AT phishing DOT gov DOT uk
reportphishing AT apwg DOT org
then deleted the lot.
To be clear, that only involved my sending one e-mail a day.
Within a week the number of spam e-mails dropped considerably then fell to zero for many months.
In the last few weeks I've begun receiving 2 or 3 a day, so only use the above batch reporting about once a week.
On my BT accounts I've never had any nasty spam at all, just a few unsolicited e-mails from what look like genuine companies (judging by the headers) which are easily blocked.