Enhance spam detection
Lately a lot spams have bypassed detection and they all have a very unique garbage like appearance in their subject and sender. Examples for subjects "- ²C'o n G r-@ at°", "H°ealTh", "C°on gr aT <", ".C'o n-g r a t..!". Examples for sender "S A - M s .°", "P'ro Sta Te", "A'ir PodS", "S' AM S.°". It'd seem easy enough if only Yahoo can use NLP to get a basic assessment on how nonsensical these are.
Jing Jia
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Ben A Ramsey
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Agreed - blatant spam is coming through, and the filters do nothing. This will be a dealbreaker for a lot of users if not fixed soon.
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Jon Snell
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Spam is obliterating my email account. 20 or 30 daily spam emails. Totally out of control.
I shall have to move to another email provider if this is not fixed very soon. -
[Deleted User]
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I am with Ross! He is right suddenly just the last few weeks, the spam mail is full daily! These spam emailed seem to be coming from the UK! They are Junk, Sex talk and Trash emails! I have no problem on gmail, I may move everything to it!
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Ross Druker
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Hi,
I am reiterating feedback I have been giving to Yahoo Customer Care for over a month now. Your spam filter suddenly seems broken in that it is incapable of learning. I keep clicking the spam button over and over again on e-mails with the identical Subject and body -- dozens of them -- and yet the same spams still keep coming into my Inbox. The e-mails are all very clearly junk/spam solicitations. And I have never used this account for anything related to shopping or given it out to any mailing lists. -
MARGERT VALENTI
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Yahoo recently has way more SPAM than Gmail or Outlook. Have tried marking email as SPAM it takes weeks to train Spam! Filters Do Not work! Neither does Blocking addresses! SPAM is out of control!!
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lisa strang
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It is my opinion that Yahoo has basically turned off their SPAM filters in an effort to make signing up for Yahoo Plus and the promise of no more junk mail more appealing. 20-30 junk mails a day was annoying, but it's up to 40-50 SPAM e-mails a day. I'm done.
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Michael Interian
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The phishing and spam detection is horrible. Totally avoidable, but it seems like Yahoo does nothing about this.
There is also a new version of this, where Mail won't recognize it's an email address and won't give you the "block" option. Somehow, the hackers have found a way of doing this, and Yahoo is flat-footed.
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M Possel
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I am sick and tired getting so many spam mails. Many are for the same products but things are changed ever so slightly so the still get sent to my address. I keep erasing, they keep coming back.
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John T McKenna
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Yeah I'm so tired of getting told my McAfee subscription expires today ... and yesterday, and the day before, and the day before, and the day before, and the day before, and the day before, and the day before, and the day before, and the day before, and the day before, and the day before, and the day before, and the day before, and the day before, and the day before, and the day before, and the day before ... when I never had a McAfee subscription to begin with. They use special characters in the subject line that look like similar letters but aren't. Can we just filter out any email that doesn't use normal fonts please? Literally every single email I have ever gotten that has non-standard fonts or characters in the subject line has been spam/scams.
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M
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I’m tired of spamming the same spam over and over again. The same types of spam that Jing Jia mentioned months ago.
I like the idea of sending my spam to Yahoo’s customer care 😈 -
joey chambers
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Yahoo makes no attempt to filter or limit the amount of spam, it appears that yahoo wants to be the preferred vendor for phishing and the unethical. Yahoo is dedicated to junk and spammers, so yahoo is only to be used for annoying retailers and those you wish to give an email too not to be bothered.
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John Zimmerman
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Maybe a massive mail-in campaign to yahoo customer service might get someone's attention.
I tend to doubt it, bit it never hurts to try.
Just open up the obvious spam email, and FORWARD it to:Use whatever verbiage/message you want, but feel to copy/paste the following message:
Why does yahoo mail allow this OBVIOUS SPAM to end up in my INBOX instead of going DIRECTLY into my SPAM folder? If yahoo can't filter OBVIOUS SPAM, then why should I continue using yahoo mail? Do you recommend that I switch to GMAIL? If not, then why should I continue using an email that CAN'T filter out OBVIOUS SPAM???
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John Zimmerman
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This is OBVIOUSLY a BLATANT ATTEMPT by yahoo to discourage users from continuing to use the basic yahoo email service and make the users feel like they MUST UPGARDE to the PAID email service because of yahoo greed!!! yahoo is more interested in revenue than on customer service/satisfaction. MASSIVE INCOME from advertising is not enough, so the greedy company expects to enhance revenue by getting more money from their users.
I have written the following email to yahoo customer service (and I use that term lightly!) citing dozens of OBVIOUS SPAM EMAILS:
Why does yahoo mail allow this OBVIOUS SPAM to end up in my INBOX instead of going DIRECTLY into my SPAM folder? If yahoo can't filter OBVIOUS SPAM, then why should I continue using yahoo mail? Do you recommend that I switch to GMAIL? If not, then why should I continue using an email that CAN'T filter out OBVIOUS SPAM???Almost every response comes back with all the different ways that the USER can TRY to filter spams, and, of course, lists the option of UPGRADING to the PAID EMAIL program.
These SPAMS are so obvious that FIFTH GRADERS could program the yahoo computers to filter them out. But again, yahoo INTENTIONALLY chooses to focus on ADVERTISEMENT REVENUE and PREMIUM email revenue. Anyone notice that on your list of emails in your INBOX, yahoo has inserted what looks like an email, but in reality, they have SNEAKILY inserted an AD in hopes that the user will inadvertently click on that AD so yahoo could collect MORE AD REVENUE!
I've also written to them asking why I should continue using yahoo with this type of horrible filtering system. NO REPLY, OF COURSE!!!
I don't expect things to change because it's ALL ABOUT CORPORATE GREED!!!
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MARY KROBOCK
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I notice that my spam mail has increased to a ridiculous level because you are trying to force me to pay for email spam reduction. I find this disgusting because you are purposely allowing the spam to show up in my inbox. SHAME on you.
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Steve Mattaini
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The amount of spam coming through recently is ridiculous.
If it continues, I'll just use my other email (gmail) which does not have this issue. At all.
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Adam Rubinstein
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The SPAM filters are poor, to say the least. This is why I stopped using Yahoo a while back. Fix this or I have to change to GMAIL
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jordan guidry
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They arent going to stop this. It has intentionally gotten worse. Havent you noticed all of the pop ups from Yahoo about their paid account that blocks spam... None of my other non-yahoo accounts have this problem. I am so fed up I am just going to change all of my accounts to my gmail address.
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Jason Preidis
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I am getting 10-20 emails a day like this. I used to hardly get any spam now yahoo lets almost all through.
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anonymous
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YAHOO's SPAM sucks! I'm so sick of trying to filer this kind of **** "²C'o n G r-@ at°", "H°ealTh", "C°on gr aT <", ".C'o" It's absolutely ridiculous!!! Fix it YAHOO!!!
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BG
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I agree, way too much spam getting thru all of a sudden. But my Father who sends a round robin email to my siblings and I every week kept getting sent to spam and now although I have marked it NOT SPAM several times his emails are not getting thru to me at all and one of my sisters has to forward it too me every week. Get it together Yahoo!!!