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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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Responded  ·  Product Support responded  · 

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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  • Robert Thomas commented  ·   ·  Report

    Spam. Why can yahoo mail not delete spam as it arrives in my spam box? anything I have tagged as spam continues to come. I have blocked senders email addresses and domains but still they come in their hundreds. Please delete them all.

  • Tim Delaney commented  ·   ·  Report

    Why not send ad's for dating sites to only people who request them? It kind of sucks when the only ad's I get are for ******* dating sites and I have to explain the to my wife? WTF? And I tried stopping these ad's in the ad's preference page and they still are trolling me!

  • Claude Mayrand commented  ·   ·  Report

    I use Yahoo because I don't want to use Google for email. So what is this Google password spam? You want me to switch to Gmail?

  • Jake Thurman commented  ·   ·  Report

    Make it easier to report and block spam emails. A person's email is just as important as their physical address. It's used for many legitimate business transactions. Yahoo needs to keep this spam from reaching our inbox.

  • Jeff Neal commented  ·   ·  Report

    I've had 112 spam messages in the last 3.5 hours - many of them x rated even in the subject lines. Why isn't yahoo blocking all of this ****?

  • nathan beach commented  ·   ·  Report

    'Fedex' (WHICH IS INCORRECT) posted yet another EXTREMELY OBVIOUS SCAM in my **** inbox again! I TOLD YOU PEOPLE SEVERAL TIMES THAT ANY COMPANY USING EMOJIS/SYMBOLS IN THE SUBJECT LINE IS A 100% GUARANTEED SCAM!!! STOP LETTING THIS THROUGH!

  • Dervin Owens commented  ·   ·  Report

    I used the spam tools and blocked the domains of the worst offenders ,but still getting bombarded with spam from those domains! I have used up my 1000 blocked address file and deleted it and started over. This has to be something that yahoo is aware of ,it's beyond ridiculous.

  • Erik . commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yahoo email supports the setup of filters but they are only applied AFTER yahoo has checked if they weren't spam.
    From yahoo help: "All emails go through the spam filter before going through other filters"

    This setup is causing me issues, because somethimes a valid email ends-up into the spam folder and this issue is that I get so much spam, that verifying if there is some valid email among them all becomes very tricky.
    I tried creating filters to move spam email into a folder "to be deleted", so I would delete all the spam as per my own rules (ideally we can also move to trash instead of another folder), keeping the spam folder a bit cleaner and making it easier to "see" if any valid emails have ended up in here.

    Saw that other users wanted to have similar functionality, but threads were closed, so opening a new one...

  • Lucian commented  ·   ·  Report

    PLEASE YAHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Lucian commented  ·   ·  Report

    WE NEED TO BLOCK THE SENDERS!! AND ONLY BLOCK THE DOMAIN, WHAT IS AFTER THE @, BECAUSE OF AUTO-GENERATED E-MAILS. ONLY THE USER IS AUTO-GENERATED, THE DOMAIN AFTER @ IS ALWAYS THE SAME.

    BUT THERE ARE SOME E-MAILS THAT DON'T SHOW ME THE "BLOCK" OPTION... IS MY BLOCK LIST FULL????? I THINK I BLOCKED 100 UNTIL NOW... IF WE COULD BLOCK BY DOMAIN, WE'D HAVE SHORTER BLOCK LISTS.

    I KNOW THE SPAM FOLDER IS FOR THEM. BUT I'M SICK OF SEEING **** AND MATURE **** IN THE SPAM FOLDER EACH DAY! EVERY DAY 15-20 **** E-MAILS. IT'S PAST RIDICULOUS AT THIS POINT!

    SO PLEASE GIVE US THE OPTION TO BLOCK E-MAILS BY DOMAINS, NOT FULL ADDRESS. AND THE OPTION TO MANAGE OUR BLOCK LISTS. SO WE CAN REMOVE THE OLD AUTO-GENERATED E-MAILS, OR EDIT THEM.

    PLEASE YAHOO!!!!

  • J W commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am getting several emails a day with the same tag lines, same subject, same rough email address, and no matter what filters I add, or what emails I block, they get through. And what's more, I can't just block the spammer from the email itself, because YOU apparently decided that this particular sender is immune to being blocked. So to do it, I have to copy their email address, and manually add a filter to block them, because after more than 2 decades, you STILL aren't listening to the people and allowing us to block entire domains like a SANE developer would do.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    No, it doesn't help that you tell us where to manage spam. It has been done. You just let it through. And you still let through new email that dates itself a couple months back in the email list.

    Yahoo doesn't seem to realize how irritating it can be to repeatedly erase email through the last year.

  • Matt Johnson commented  ·   ·  Report

    I get over 100 spam messages a day. Can you please implement a feature that allows us to block IP addresses? Also could you consider blocking any incoming email where the email address is hidden?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Over the past few months it is like you have turned off the spam filtering. I used to get 1 or 2 sneaking through per month and now I get 20-30 per day. Even worse, a lot of the spam uses old dates so it tucks the spam into my mail list months in the past.

    This is seemingly an easy fix.

    Is the increased spamming intentional on your part? I can say that there is no way I will be paying you for the upgraded mail if you can't demonstrate basic spam handling in the current version.

  • nathan beach commented  ·   ·  Report

    Wendy Debow is showing people's inboxes now- ANOTHER VERY OBVIOUS SCAM-with the subject talking about 'unpaid invoices'! YAHOO MAIL NEEDS TO BLOCK OUT AND REPORT ALL EMAILS FROM 'WENDY DEBOW' STARTING TODAY! PAY ATTENTION!

  • Tim Keesen commented  ·   ·  Report

    IT WOULD BE REALLY NICE IF A TAG AN EMAIL AS SPAM AND I WOULD NEVER GET THAT EMAIL AGAIN BUT THAT NEVER HAPPENS, I JUST GET MORE THAN I STARTED WITH. THE FILTER ON YAHOO IS TERRIBLE AND I KNOW OTHER PEOPLE ARE HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM AND YET IT DOES NOT GET FIXED.

  • Todd Olsen commented  ·   ·  Report

    Why is the algorithm so bad? It's so obvious, just by the random characters, that it's fake enough for good code to block.

  • Todd Olsen commented  ·   ·  Report

    Why is the algorithm so bad? It's so obvious, just by the random characters, that it's fake enough for good code to block.

  • Todd Olsen commented  ·   ·  Report

    Why is the algorithm so bad? It's so obvious, just by the random characters, that it's fake enough for good code to block.

  • Todd Olsen commented  ·   ·  Report

    Why is the algorithm so bad? It's so obvious, just by the random characters, that it's fake enough for good code to block.

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