Help with my account
For the last two days I’m receiving dozens of nonsense emails. How can this be stopped? Thx
Brian
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Hi there. The more often you mark these emails as Spam, the more you train your personal mail filter to recognize them as such. We recommend following these steps to manage your incoming emails: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/manage-spam-mailing-lists-yahoo-mail-sln28056.html
You can always create filters: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/new-mail-for-desktop/filters-organize-yahoo-mail-sln28071.html
If you need additional help, you can go to help.yahoo.com
Thanks,
Yahoo Mail team
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David Baldwin
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STOP SUGGESTING UNSUBSCRIBE FROM SPAM YAHOO TRUSTS?
Re: "Learn More": "we trust the sender" ... option to Unsubscribe...
1. I wish we could post/attach a Screenshot to illustrate our feedback!
2. Problem 1: You are Trusting SPAM !!
Yahoo! "Tips to avoid spam" says "Never reply to email subscriptions asking to be removed" but You Do It ??
We know how to Unsubscribe!PROBLEM 2: If it's SPAM/Phishing
The UNSUBSCRIBE link IS LIKELY ALSO SPAM/PHISHING !!
Your SPAM recognition sucks!
Trust US the USERs - NOT the Spammers!Instead of UNSUBSCRIBE, GIVE US THE OPTION TO BLOCK the offending/spamming FROM ADDRESS in the Raw Header.
https://ca.help.yahoo.com/kb/new-mail-for-desktop/SLN28056.html
"Unsubscribe from sender
When you mark a message from a mailing list as spam and we trust the sender, you'll be given the option to unsubscribe rather than marking it as spam.Select Unsubscribe and you will no longer receive any messages from the mailing list. Selecting Report as spam will mark the message as spam and move it into the spam folder.
Tips to avoid spam in the future
Don't reply to unknown senders.
Be careful who you give your email address to.
Never reply to email subscriptions asking to be removed." -
Barbara Benjamin
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I'm sick of this! I have been PAYING YAHOO for AD FREE email, but now I'm getting tons of SPAM! WHY?
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Brian T Quinn
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Improve the SPAM filters - why is a message from clicktactix with a picture of the US Postal Service and a contest for a Dyson NOT a tip off?
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Cynthia McCollough
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tons of spam coming through lately - don't ask if we have protection cuz we do. Spam filters need to be reviewed and improved
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Tommy Martin
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I would like to be able to permanently block emails that contain certain words in the sender or subject fields. Spammers use similar addresses that contain words like "info@" and "admin@".
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andy neuman
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My yahoo account has recently been inundated with spam and is nearly impossible to use. The yahoo spam flagging doesn't seem to help. Is this yahoo forcing me into their paid service? Does their paid service help to reduce the spam? Is it possible to keep my yahoo email but have it run through google?
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Jim Chastain
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What is the point of flagging spam if it serves no purpose??? With all of the obvious spam email out there, Yahoo should be automatically blocking these before they even reach the recipient. Maybe its time for a change after 20+ years of the same email account.
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Roscoe
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Your spam filter has suddenly taken a serious turn for the worst. I receive more spam than I do actual mail. I have had this account for around 23 years and may have to abandon it because it is more trouble than it is worth.
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Lisa Morris
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I get numerous emails daily with crazy long address' or crazy lettering, parenthesis, stars. Why are these not going into the spam folder?
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Anonymous
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Nobody...I mean NOBODY I ever WANT to get an email from will ever use dollar signs, curly brackets, multiple dashes, bold text, odd fonts, etc. in the subject line.
Your product is getting to the point of being unusable because of this. I don't experience this on other email servers; why is that?Google made your search engine obsolete years ago and they're about to do the same with your email functionality if you don't address these needs.
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S @
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SPAM is out of control all of a sudden. Please update your filter. I'm suddenly getting 100+ spam emails PER DAY. About a week ago and prior, I would get 2 or 3. The filter should be able to identify subject lines in rare font, with ******** and {{{{{{{. Thank you.
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Murray Plenn
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Why offer the ability to block senders when, in fact, you don't! I've been using this tactic for a few weeks now and I'm still receiving unwanted emails.
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Arpad Savoly
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turn on spam filter
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AJT AJT
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YAHOO needs to do a better job making sure we don't receive these spam emails stating norton, mcafee, tmobile. I noticed that when I select unsubscribe or send to spam, hundreds more keep coming. FIX This to keep them from coming through
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Diane Hutchins
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Reaching the max blockable is frustrating. can only delete spam.
you should penalize frequent offenders like "PayPal receipt received" I DONT HAVE OR NEVER HAVE USED PAYPAL! -
Amy Bravo
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why is so much spam getting through
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Jennifer Alvarez
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Yahoo is clearly trying to make people buy their $5 a month spam blocker because of how many spam emails are suddenly making their way into my inbasket. Pretty convenient I would have to say, and it also costs money to forward to another account now, so they really have you. Not what I signed up for and complete bs
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Angel Duran
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WHY SHOULD WE HAVE TO PAY FOR A SERVICE THAT WAS FREE ???
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Steven Olsen
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There is an overabundance of spam within my inbox & spam folders versus all of my other free email providers.
Note: I previously had activated a "premium" email account with Yahoo!, though at the time, the input of "payment" information was not required That resulted in the seemingly miraculous disappearance of the aforementioned spam issue. Upon ending that premium account, the volume of the spam continued at significantly reduced levels. That was until another increase recently that varies between 1,000 ~ 1,500%.
My suspicion is that the greatest portion of spam have been generated directly by Yahoo! and/or agents and/or organizations acting under Yahoo's direction. This is due to the consistency in their content, the senders' email addresses, their sudden exponential increase in volume, and the time of their appearance coinciding with the appearance of relentless promotion of "Yahoo Mail Plus".
This essentially is the same as ransomware; an attempt to force users to purchase monthly subscriptions of Yahoo Mail Plus in response to Yahoo's assurances of significant reductions in spam's appearance.
Also, another key difference with Yahoo email within a browser based context is the large amount of screen area occupied by advertisements that are conspicuously absent within other free browser based email platforms.
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Rosa Sanchez
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Spam is being allowed to infiltrate my emails. I block them and they come back. This needs to stop. What the **** are you doing? I have been with Yahoo for many years and its impossible to get rid of this mess. Please do something. Thank you.