Generally refers to any email or message that is either unwanted or unsolicited. Often of a commercial nature.
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Report fraud websites online?
There's an awful lot of scams going on, and I'd love to report them, but it seems that none of the big players (looking at you, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube) have a way to report external websites that ...
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Hotmail account is automatically sending emails, no evidence in Sent folder
After clicking a link in a message, my Hotmail account sent emails to all the people in my address book.
The email itself is not present in the Sent folder items. Bizarrely, the problem occurs from ...
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Got the strangest spam message that go through the gmail filter
I use Gmail and find it's very rare to get a spam message through. However I find when I do get a spam message, sometimes the to address is not even my email address:
from Sloane Crawford ...
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Yahoo! email account is sending spam to my old contacts, what do I do?
An old Yahoo! email account of mine is sending out viagra spam and advertisements to all the contacts in that account's address book. I'm not the one getting spammed, my friends are.
A friend ...
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anonymous links in email?
I've received a spam claimed to be sent from one of my friends' email (well I'm sure he didn't send it).
What exactly would be the implications of clicking the link?
What's the worse that could ...
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Gmail: Add 'mailed-by' domain to safe list?
Gmail keeps marking emails coming from my site as spam. Is there any way to set up a filter that will send any emails coming from that domain to my inbox?
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Bulk removing future-dated e-mail from Yahoo! account
My Yahoo! email account gets a lot of e-mails "from the future" (i.e. spam) that has the sent date in year 2038.
How do I easily remove these kind of e-mails? (there are several thousand of them and ...
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Can't block spam email from a very specific email account on hotmail
I am receiving spam email from a specific email address for some time now. The email account has obviously been hijacked and abandoned. However that's not the problem. I have attempted to block this ...
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Does moving a mail to the IMAP spam folder trains Gmail's spam filter?
I'm accessing my Gmail account via imap with Thunderbird.
When I move a mail to the imap spam folder, that action equivalent to using the Report Spam button inside Gmail's interface? Does Gmail's ...
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Windows Live - stop spam in the form of invites
Nowadays, besides the fact that I'm getting quite some spam e-mail, I get spam invites on my Windows Live network. Now I haven't seen these people ever before, I'm 100% sure it are some spam people ...
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How to block Microsoft spam email on Hotmail
I am using live.com email. That is also Hotmail.
Microsoft always send me a bunch of advertisement mail which is annoying. How can I block it?
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Download all Gmail emails, regardless of spam
We use Gmail's Google Apps for receiving our work emails. Our users don't use the web client to access their emails, they use Outlook.
The problem is, some emails are being marked as spam inside ...
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Undo “Report Spam” in Gmail?
I have unintentionally "Report Spam"ed an email that I meant only to archive from a frequent legitimate contact. Are there spam rule controls somewhere in Gmail that I can reverse the effect of my ...
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Tool to admin spam blacklist [closed]
My blacklist is ever-growing due to the inflexible behaviour of my mail provider to only add individual email addresses to the blacklist with a single click while to block a whole server I have to ...
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Routing my mail server through Google Spam filters
I've been told in the past that Google had a free spam filter service. The service would allow me to point my MX records to Google, then they would forward all cleaned mail to my server. Is this ...
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Is there a way to always filter results from Google based on a set of unwanted domains? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I exclude spam domains from my search results?
There are several sites that have been out for a while that are starting to crawl StackOverflow and related sites. I ...
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What is bettercodes.org and is it trustworthy? Will they spam my contacts if I log in with Google?
I just got this rather lengthy and boring spam from someone I have no recollection of ever speaking too Michael <michael.bayer1980@googlemail.com>.
By developers! For developers! This is
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How to better manage spam in Gmail Apps
I am a long term Gmail Apps user and use catch-all behaviour in my Gmail account. I have only 1 email address connected and get about 600 spam messages per 30 days, nearly 100% of which are marked as ...
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How can people still be getting spam from a hotmail account that's been closed?
My wife had an old hotmail account which she recently closed. Some people that she used to communicate with from that account have recently been receiving spam emails from this account. I don't see ...
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How to check your Gmail spam label for good emails
I'm an old user of Gmail since 2004 and I rarely have checked spam label in search of false positive spam emails.
Do you have some strategy/technique to find good emails or you just browse the spam ...
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Why are posts on reddit starting as spam?
So, I just started a reddit.
Since I'm pretty new at this, I first made it private and played around with the buttons to see what each did (e.g., how are remove and delete different?).
I then added ...
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spam coming from a gmail account, but with known contacts cc'd?
I've started getting spam recently from my wife's gmail account.
Obviously senders can easily spoof from addresses, but this is a bit more diconcerting; they obviously know that im on my wife's ...
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What are alternatives to Postini for spam filtering? [closed]
I'm looking for a good spam filtering service for a small business (< 25 people). I'm looking for a solution similar to Postini, where I set my MX records to route mail for my domain to the spam ...
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How to retrieve deleted spam mails
I received an important mail in the spam folder and just as I hit the delete button, I realized its importance, Can I restore this mail ?
Notice that I use Yahoo mail.
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How do spam filters work?
Aside from using keywords, what other evidence is taken into consideration in the algorithm that detects whether an email sent is a spam email and not an legit one?
Like if I sent an email to my ...
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Why does eBay keep sending me “daily deals” emails?
I changed my notification preferences on the eBay website to stop sending me spam some time ago. It does say that the changes can take up to 10 days, but believe me, I unticked everything well past ...
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When using Postini for spam filtering, is it a requirement that I enter email addresses in Postini for each of my users?
When using Postini for spam filtering, is it a requirement that I enter email addresses in Postini for each of my users? Or can you avoid specifying any users and just use a "generic" set of rules?
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Unspammed GMail messages not being forwarded
I have a GMail account that forwards email to several accounts.
A few important messages were incorrectly marked as spam. When I marked these mails as "Not Spam", they were not forwarded to the ...
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how do I stop reconnect facebook spam?
I don't mind getting an email from facebook about an event a friend puts on. Or a message they send me.
What bothers me are the "Reconnect with your friends" emails.
how do I stop them but not stop ...
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Is it possible to forward all Gmail messages to another account *including* spam?
It's simple to set Gmail to forward all incoming mail to another account. However, the spam filtering is done before that takes place, so any messages that Gmail considers spam will end up in the ...
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Google Voice is being sent to gmail's spam
I'm an admin of a group, the permissions got set to the default team setting for the email group google voice was forwarding to. I have since resolved this to allow anyone on the internet email this ...
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How does Google's Postini spam filter route mail to your destination mail server?
I get my email through a generic hosted mail provider and I want to set up Postini for spam filtering. Postini has you change your MX records to the Postini servers.
What is the process for Postini ...
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GMail treats mails from my domain as spam. Why? How to avoid it?
Whenever I send a mail from myaccount@mydomain.com to a gmail account, gmail treats it as spam.
I'm talking about the one e-mail I send to a prospect after I've met him (it is surely non-spam mail). ...
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4answers
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Yahoo Mail classifies Email sent from my account to myself as Spam
I create a new account in Yahoo Mail. All was jolly good for a while until I (for some strange reasons) email myself a list of things to do.
The email is sent successfully after asking me to verify ...
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How do you shut down Facebook spam?
I keep getting spam show up on my Facebook sent to all my friends. When I looked into how it was sent I noticed that it was sent via cell phone.
I've changed all passwords to all accounts but it is ...
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Unique Problem with EMail Addresses
I have a unique problem. My GMail address is given to banks, Electricity Department, Water Department and so on and so forth. Let us assume, my email address is John@GMail.com. There are lots of other ...
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E-mail address protection snippet
Is there any WebApp that allows you to publish an e-mail on the web using a script tag that protects it from robots?
To be more clear: I want to publish a post on Blogspot that prints my e-mail on ...
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Any danger in having spammy Twitter followers
I routinely receive notifications of obviously spammy Twitter users following me, e.g. accounts with names like @freemoneynow, etc. Is there a danger in allowing them to follow me if I do not follow ...
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Viagra website spam mail
My email yahoo account is picking random people from my email address book and sending them a link to a website to a site for Viagra pills and other pills that treat the same thing. I'm getting emails ...
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How can I prevent/lessen event spam on Facebook?
On Facebook, you can be invited to an event by any of your friends. Once you have been invited to an event, the admins of that event can send messages straight to your inbox even if you have not sent ...
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Can I block tags on Delicious?
There seem to be certain tags like movie or video in Delicious that get spammed by porn sites and the like. Is there any way to hide these sites, or report spam?
Alternatively, is it possible to ...
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Is there a way to cancel linkedin “invitation e-mail” to my friends?
I made the mistake of inviting some friends to linkedin.
The result is that linkedin will now re-send e-mails a few more times to remind them that they didn't register yet.
Is there a way to make it ...
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How can I find out why Yahoo classifies my mail as spam?
I've a Yahoo! email account and when sending emails from my company to it, they always at first get into Spam. It's not about that I can't find the "No spam" buttons, but whenever someone from our ...
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Why is gmail marking my Google Calendar reminders as spam?
Gmail is sending all of my calendar reminders to spam.
As far as I can tell, I don't have a filter (or anything else) telling it to do this.
How can I make it stop? I keep marking everything that ...
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2answers
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Does marking an email as spam in Gmail affect the filter for everyone?
If I mark something as spam in Gmail, does that modify only my spam filter or does it affect the spam filter for other users?
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2answers
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How Gmail and other mail services detects a mail as a spam?
When I am sending a mail from my one mail account (Yahoo) to other (Gmail), Gmail automatically puts my mails into the Spam folder. What is the basic criteria to send an email by which mail servers ...
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How can I purposely send a message that will be marked as spam in Gmail?
I'm trying to test out forwarding, filters, and spam. I want to see how a spam message will be affected by my current configuration.
I want to send myself a message that will show up as spam in my ...
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How can I prevent other users from adding me to their groups?
Twice (or more?) now I have received an email saying 'spammer name' has added me to their yahoo group, and of course it gives me an unsubscribe email that requires some 3-ish steps to complete ...
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Random domain (and not just username) temporary email service
I need a temporary email to register on one web service and not to receive spam later. But the thing is that they block emails from all known temporary and public email services. Is there a temporary ...
