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.
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
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Thank you!
Yahoo Mail team
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Sara Nicholson commented
YOU (Yahoo) are paying for all this storage of SOOO much junk, so you'd think you'd want to reduce it. My inbox has over 120,000 emails after years of not being able to keep up with all the junk. This is absurd to humanity! Let us be able to actually deal with our inboxes!!
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Julie Tracy commented
ONE THING YOU CAN DO YAHOOMAIL IS TO STOP SELLING OUR EMAIL INFORMATION TO YOUR SPONSORS TO GENERATE REVENUE FOR YOUR GREEDY POCKETS. I DON'T KNOW WHEN IN GOD'S NAME I AUTHORIZED YOU TO SELL MY EMAIL ADDRESS! NOW ROUGHLY 70% OF EMAIL IN MY INBOX TO THIS ACCOUNT IS SPAM! AMOUNT OF SPAM TO THIS ACCOUNT IS UNREASONABLE!!!
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John Wilen commented
I get constant spam from email addresses like this: vdahxjmieiosejzhngatyjwnyykpsimcfnuxfhwatozwjahydlwyj@yaffqrqsiz.org.uk
There are two constant features: all come from a domain that includes .org.uk in the address. And the rest of the addresses are long strings of gibberish. Why can't you train your spam filter to block these?
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Debajyoti Sinha commented
Everyday, I receive a lot of Spam mails from different unknown sources. It is hereby requested to Yahoomail authority to increase your security level.
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Edward Cornell commented
How can we turn off the Active/Intelligent Spam filters. I only want the Passive Spam filters. Meaning I (End-User), tell yahoo when to mark email messages as spam.
I don't need a robot to automatically put important email into the spam folder just because it thinks it is spam. Looks like this is an ongoing issue that has not been resolved yet?
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Kurt Nielsen commented
With Filters, add a Block setting that will BLOCK all emails that meet the criteria for the filters.
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Franklin Collins commented
Recently I have started getting a significantly greater amount of spam email coming through your filters, and making it to my inbox, only a daily basis. This is baffling because obviously Yahoo has changed something and now using my Yahoo Mail address has become irritating and frustrating. So much so that I am considering migrating completely to Gmail unless thigs improve. Just saying that Google has way better spam filters in place than Yahoo, and it makes me wonder if Yahoo has some financial incentive for letting it happen.
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Paul Cullum commented
I seem to get a lot of SPAM. The majority of the SPAM I get could be blocked from even appearing in my SPAM folder with a simple wildcard filter. Of course,
Blocking obvious SPAM emails completely, before it is moved into the SPAM folder, would make it a lot less work to actually review what little SPAM would be left.
These are the sender addresses from the SPAM that I've received in the last hour.
42563778@mail04.bakloop.com
42563778@mail11.gilbertq.com
42563778@mail09.kanpou365.com
42563778@mail07.euphorine.com
42563778@mail08.euphorine.com
42563778@mail10.cnjrws.com
42563778@mail10.jmarklife.com
42563778@mail03.hk-mro.com
42563778@mail05.euphorine.comI don't understand why I should be forced to wade through any more emails from 42563778 @ any domain.
It would be great if I could prevent 42563778@* from even showing up.
Perhaps there is something that could be done to block this kind of SPAM bombing from showing up in anyone's SPAM folder? Given the volume of data you must have available for analysis, this should be very do-able. Gmail is really good at making it look like this never happens.
But at the very least, give us the tools to make this happen.
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Edward VanTrump commented
this feature is long overdue
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Edward VanTrump commented
Besides having an All Checkbox for mass selection of emails, it would also be nice to be able to select emails by Month and Year. Having this option would make it much easier to keep Inbox, Send, Trash and other folders free of old and unneeded emails. This could help lower storage requirements on your end.
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. . commented
Utter lack of effective spam controls is so far behind current day spamology, that one would wonder whether Yahoo! actively endorses spam.
Limit of 1,000 blocked addresses is hilariously feeble when apammers can autogenerate hundreds on the fly.
Inability to block by partial address is like something from the 1980s.
Woeful filtering system.
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David Nasralla commented
It's like the spam filters aren't even on. CAMP Lejuene!! Settlement approved!!! The subject lines are encoded and slip right past their filters EVERY SINGLE DAY! The raw text of the subject lines are OVER 400 characters! Just let me block anything over 80! Here is a sample of the raw subject line which is injected with tons of spaces and encoding " ◉◉ ð”ð©ððšððž(8): Your Compensation Has Been Approved
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[Deleted User] commented
Follow through on your mission statement of delivering a quality product. What happened to Yahoo? There is no different from the "free" service to paying a fee. you blast us regardless.
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Ralph Rutledge commented
Ymail could use a spam unsubscribe or a spam block button, to be able to get rid of all the spam..
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Marvin Fluckiger commented
Beating the spam Box detection CAN IT BE DONE?
This top email has something something at (@) something . com
Now the bottom one’s don’t have this same address they have spoofed it by using what looks like a IP address. So you can’t use the Block senders as wall delete them all at once. There were 4 full pages of them. HERE”S and example
Received: from 10.217.151.201
by atlas124.free.mail.ne1.yahoo.com pod-id NONE with HTTPS; Fri, 10 Feb 2023 22:39:50 +0000
Return-Path: <return@mail09.edondenell.com>
X-Originating-Ip: [188.93.211.47]
Received-SPF: pass (domain of mail09.edondenell.com designates 188.93.211.47 as permitted sender)
Authentication-Results: atlas124.free.mail.ne1.yahoo.com;
dkim=unknown;
spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=mail09.edondenell.com;
dmarc=unknown reason=from header is empty;
X-Apparently-To: WHO THEY WANT TO JUNK @yahoo.com; Fri, 10 Feb 2023 22:39:50 +0000
X-YMailAVSC: pdC5g4w3bBuunB_qCLOUgyEVB9onA1Wz6gJ_XLB12nT6fm6
VKQ.TgHUuR5WuTYrumoGipLieQlTrnHvQm3m6V8xs17oTI.mJhF2hOm8ilwn
kSJ1K9V.gLfj.SeqSfz0V5NiXIF.mt_O27ES5MXgD8w2EyFfSYPsz8NxrvplOne other thing I just thought of was if you use the UN-subscribe in this tab don’t. My theory is that this takes you email back to sender they then know the account is being used as well then can sale your email anywhere it’s being bought.
SO my big question is how to block these kind of emails
Or maybe we make a junk-email-retrun-folder@ Their-Email-Somewhere and on one particular day jam up their email box ! ! ! -
Charles Grube commented
Every day my spam is filled up.
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Charles Grube commented
Why is yahoo mail letting emails starting with numbers through. Clearly they are fake accounts. Here some examples.
38688506@
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JV commented
Edit: additional context: Yahoo admin decided to combine my original post with this unrelated topic. The below is NOT dealing with spam, but rather blocking my ability to send emails with these links.
Yahoo used to have a very definitive blacklist of censored sites that I kept track of. They backed off now (just like how world governments and BigTech all colluded on censoing COVID19 info, then suddenly backed off recently), but then they added another to their list instead: archive.today / archive.is / archive.vn / archive.ph
If we try to compose any emails that includes those urls with those domains, we are BLOCKED from sending it and blocked from saving them as Drafts too!
"An error occurred while sending the message (link to draft message)
Message cannot be saved as draft"It is 100% reproducible. I found a workaround that involves exploiting a buggy behavior which I won't detail here, but this censorship in general is unacceptable.
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JV commented
Edit: additional context since Yahoo decided to combine my original post with this topic. My problem is actually the opposite of this topic's original poster. It sounds like the original poster of this thread wanted Yahoo to block spam completely before even reaching his spam folder. I am having the problem of suddenly getting too many legitimate NON-spam emails being sent to the spam folder.
Since about Feb. 13, 2023 for me, Yahoo's spam filter suddenly got much more aggressive than before, marking too many legitimate emails as spam. Since then, the large majority of the emails in the Spam folder are actually legitimate emails! In fact, even some emails I send to myself gets marked as spam!
I know there are many complaints about this in the past, and I don't know if filters are personalized but while it was sort of a problem before, it was never this bad for me where too many got marked as spam. In fact it used to be the opposite, where more real spam (phishing emails, malware types) gets past the spam filter into the inbox. I can deal with that because it's only on occassion and I always spot them, but the current opposite situation is worse.
Furthermore, the "Not Spam" button seems useless in terms of training the spam filter to avoid marking the same emails (using sender, domain, header contents) as spam again because it still happens. I don't know it needs to be done many more times to successfully train the ML algorithms or filters, but so far, the "Not Spam" isn't working. But that itself is just a crutch because I shouldn't have to go through so many every day
Yahoo seems to be relying totally on very fuzzy email content analysis that's unreliable in terms of differentiating between spam and not spam. At the very least, Yahoo should be looking at headers, and giving legitimate senders that we marked as "Not Spam" absolute priority, overriding spam filter content analysis.
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[Deleted User] commented
STOP THE SPAMMERS!