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97 spam emails on a Sunday!!!!!!!!

Better effort on the part of Yahoo is needed to detect spam before letting it get through to users.

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Hi. We're sorry to hear you're receiving spam emails! We have some solutions for you, please refer to this article to learn how to best manage unwanted emails: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/manage-spam-mailing-lists-yahoo-mail-sln28056.html


We also added additional security features for Yahoo Mail: 

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/additional-security-features-yahoo-mail-sln29297.html


If you need assistance, you can reach out to us at help.yahoo.com 


Thank you! 

Yahoo Mail team

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  • Hany Farag commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yahoo Spam filter failed. Lately Spam is getting in Inbox instead of Spam folder.

  • Michael Hauser commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please try to avoid ads for cyber security products in the headers of phishing emails. This is cynical! Just received a scam Netflix payment reminder (not identified by Yahoo as spam) with a Keeper Password Manager ad on top of it!

  • Tony Martin commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have had a Yahoo email address for many years.
    If I recall, an earlier version of Yahoo mail used to have a "BLOCK" option to block unwanted emails from to stop harassment . I have searched and searched to see how to BLOCK nuisance emails.

    The only option I see is to mark incoming unwanted emails as "SPAM" or "MOVE" such emails to the "SPAM" folder. However, neither of these 2 options BLOCK incoming unwanted emails into my "SPAN" folder allowing the harassment to continue. Am I missing something here??

    Can you please provide me with instructions as to change my Yahoo email setting to BLOCK unwanted emails.

    Kind regards,

    Tony

  • Melissa Malone commented  ·   ·  Report

    My yahoo mail is flooded with so much junk that I am completely unable to filter through my important emails. Please help me by doing a better job removing junk mail or giving me an option to filter out any email with a specific word to junk.

  • Jeff Lann commented  ·   ·  Report

    To reiterate why this is a big deal to me. Scammers will often use email as a form of verification that the information they were given is correct before they proceed with stealing someone's identity. If they are given someone's email along with other personal information, they are going to send a spam email to test that it works and doesn't bounce to make sure that they themselves didn't get scammed with useless information. If it bounces back, they generally toss the information thinking they were scammed.

    It's akin to how if they are testing someone's bank account info they bought or stole, they'll send a small surcharge of like 99 cents to see if it goes through. If it does, then they'l know the bank account info works and they'll then proceed to start making bogus charges for larger amounts.

    My bank protects me by always being on guard against random pre-charges of small amounts and typically blocks them outright to protect me and my money.

    Know who doesn't do that with respect to email? Yahoo. Why? If you know for a fact what spam is, then you should auto-bounce it right back at the sender to protect your customers who use your service.

  • Jeff Lann commented  ·   ·  Report

    Email rules could be way better. I realize that Spam is a Trillion-dollar industry that Yahoo is currently a part of, but you should give those of us the tools to fight back against unwanted spam emails.

    Include a bounce feature so that anytime we get unwanted spam we can click an option to have Yahoo bounce it back to the sender. On the second unwanted spam, Yahoo then auto-generates an email to the sender's domain admins and requests they ban the user from their domain. If the third strike happens, then Yahoo automatically blocks the entire domain.

    Anything less is Yahoo enabling identity theft, of which mine has been stolen 5 times. Twice when Yahoo has been hacked over the past 22 years, I've been with you. I guess brand loyalty means nothing to Yahoo.

  • Doug B commented  ·   ·  Report

    If this also doesn't happen to everyone at Yahoo then I want to know why. Conversely, I've clicked emails from specific senders that Yahoo sent to my spam folder as not spam but Yahoo continues to send them there. WTF? (And I've also clicked restore to inbox with the same result.)

  • lafing waters commented  ·   ·  Report

    Since the yahoo email "upgrade" I have been receiving way more spam than I did before. And it is landing in my in box, not even going to the spam folder. I received 32 spam emails in my in box in about an hour. Why? With the previous version of email I wouldn't get this many in a day and whatever spam I did receive landed in the spam folder, not my inbox. This spam bombardment did not happen with the former version of email which also had other features that I liked and that are not available now. This "upgrade" is awful and really it is a downgrade. I tried to contact Yahoo through the "help" page but the "contact us" feature also doesn't work so there is no way to send a message to yahoo admin.

  • Drea Kinard commented  ·   ·  Report

    $5/month to forward all the junk and spam mail that Yahoo can't seem to filter out? Absolutely absurd!!

    Yahoo is just trying to keep its head above water because every other email client is using advanced, state of the art mail features!

    I can't even get yahoo mail to connect to outlook.

    Yahoo Mail, you should be embarrassed. Once I go through the 2000 emails, that are almost ALL junk and spam, I am moving on to an email client that was only $29.99/year and has ai integrations, learns my language, will auto reply for me, and most importantly, it filters out the junk and spam.

  • Corey Belle-Isle commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes it's actually insane how many extremely obvious spam emails make it into my inbox. I'm in the process of moving all of my accounts to Gmail and dropping yahoo altogether because of this.

  • lafing waters commented  ·   ·  Report

    Suddenly deluged with spam in my inbox. Started yesterday. Why? Way more spam in my in box in just a few hours than I usually get in the spam folder in 24 hours. What happened?

  • Ellen Marshall commented  ·   ·  Report

    "This message is from a sender in your blocked list"
    Why does this message even exist? I unsubscribe, block and try to unsubscribe at the bottom of the message multiple times a day. Too many of those take me to another spam site or do nothing!

  • Steven Hill commented  ·   ·  Report

    Too much spam in inbox...I keep marking 10-15 items a day a spam and spam keeps coming from same or similar posts!

  • peter freer commented  ·   ·  Report

    STOP allowing users to clone email addresses in order to send spam. They use an invalid return path, so can't be blocked.
    "by atlas-production.v2-mail-prod1-gq1.omega.yahoo.com pod-id atlas--production-gq1-5d8fffcb5d-hn2c7.gq1.yahoo.com with HTTP; Sun, 2 Feb 2025 15:48:55 +0000
    Return-Path: <contact-pssje@hotmail.com>
    X-Originating-Ip: [195.201.137.129]

  • kelsey de los santos commented  ·   ·  Report

    There has been a sudden influx of spam emails getting past the filter. I'm talking dozens a day. I mark every single one as spam and yet they still keep coming through. Yahoo's spam filter needs an overhaul.

  • William Even commented  ·   ·  Report

    I used to get around 10 spam emails. Now I get about 30, 40, 50. Why?

  • Matt Hill commented  ·   ·  Report

    Define "irony:
    In response to the MASSIVE spam problem that Yahoo has manage to flat out IGNORE for YEARS, I set up a sub-routine to respond to spammers as the relentless amount of repetitive spam come in each and every day, and the Yahoo system actually blocks my messages and says "you can't send this BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE SPAM"????? Way to go, guys! You are totally on it!! Brilliant!!! SMH

  • Kenneth Marifke commented  ·   ·  Report

    be Able to Remove Span totally I get about a 100 Span per day and most of them are the same as I delete the day before .

    I also lost many of my e-mail address, way are they being removed.

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