How to get rid of spam e-mails?

April 29, 2011 6:43am CST
It makes me sick that every time I open my e-mail, I receive a bulk of spam. Can anyone suggest how to get rid of this? HELP!
5 responses
@misc11 (384)
• United States
29 Apr 11
You won't be able to unless you stop submitting your email on the web. That is your only solution unfortunately. The other thing you could do is create two different email accounts, and submit one on the web and keep one for important things or for your sites you are a member of online. You will have three accounts all together, including your personal email account. If you don't want to do that, you can open the spam mail and unsubscribe yourself and then you won't receive it anymore. That is pretty time consuming though and I wouldn't suggest it!
1 May 11
thank you for the information misc11! it really help. I'll try using two e-mails.
@nezavisima (7408)
• Bulgaria
29 Apr 11
One of the things that I can advise is to never reply to these letters.And also use an antivirus program that will regularly monitor your computer system.Good luck!
1 May 11
I automatically delete the spam e-mails. I also have an antivirus but it's not working well. What antivirus are you using?
29 Apr 11
Depends where your email is hosted: often the ISP provides a spam filter (cf. Gmail). Your local app for reading can also usually do anti-spam (cf. Outlook). Or you can install a third-party spam filter (like McAfee) which will do it. First place to check is your email host. See if they have an anti-spam option somewhere.
1 May 11
I'm using yahoomail.. I'll check it out if they have anti-spam option. thank you!
@marijac (13)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
29 Apr 11
Your provider have to deal with spam.I also had problems before.I used to received hundreds e-mails but lately I receive none at all because they use proper anti-spam.
• Philippines
1 May 11
for me there are 5 simple steps: 1.) consider masking your email address - it involves putting a word r phrase in your email so that it will trick a harvesting computer program. 2.)Use a separate name for chatting 3.)Set-up disposable address 4.)use two email accounts 5.)use a unique email address, containing both numbers and letters. Hope it will help!!! =D