Generally refers to any email or message that is either unwanted or unsolicited. Often of a commercial nature.
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Emails sent to Gmail domain suddenly not RFC 2822 compliant, Possible to bypass with Google Apps?
Four days ago emails sent to our gmail accounts via our ISP's mail servies started being rejected due to not being RFC 2822 complainant.
The following message to was
undeliverable. The reason ...
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How to stop SPAM in my GMail account?
I have this stupid friend of mine who is giving me a lot of pain these days. He is registering my profile and putting up my Email ID along with my phone no. on the worst spam sites on the web. These ...
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Is this email from Google Wallet spam, fraud, or legitimate?
I have just received an email from Google wherein they are asking for my physical address so that I can continue to use my Google Wallet account. This is strange since I have never used Google Wallet. ...
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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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Spam events appear in my Google Calendar
In my Google Calendar, I sometimes find spam events that I never created.
In the screenshot below, you can see that they even managed to put my email address in the "Created by" field.
They are ...
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How do I hide CityVille stories in smart lists for real?
I click Hide all by CityVille on my smart list and it seems to work. The stories disappear the message below appears:
Stories hidden. Undo
Stories from CityVille won't appear in your News Feed ...
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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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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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Correctly Identifying Spam Messages
I have currently two messages in my inbox that passed the spam filter.
The interesting thing is that there are not like the regular ones that you would see in the Spam folder.
Subject: [My Home ...
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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 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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How can I reduce/eliminate photo tag spam in my facebook news feed?
I have one friend in particular who will be regularly tagged in photos such that he will show up in my news feed with an update like "xyz was tagged in SomeBusinessPages photo". The thing is my ...
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Random addresses from Google Apps domain sending spam
I have a Google Apps account set up for my domain with catch-all enabled. Recently I've been receiving bounced mail that I didn't send from random aliases for my domain (for example, ...
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Spam email is slipping through Gmail's filter
Starting last week, I started receiving a bunch of spam email to to my main Gmail account. It is super annoying and I get around 3 per day right now. I mark each email as spam but I keep getting ...
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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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How to deal with spam mails in spam folder in Yahoo Mail
Lately, my spam folder has been invaded by various spam mails. I have to check the spam folder everyday because there is a risk that some non-spam mails can fall in the spam folder. As the number of ...
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Email to groups in the same domain bounce due to spam
I am a admin of a domain that uses gmail. In the past week gmail started bouncing email sent to a group (user to user emails still work) from a user in the same domain. If the email is sent to the ...
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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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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 ...
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How to block a Facebook page?
My feed is covered with "9gag content", and is there a way for me not to see it? I of course haven't liked the page, but my friends constantly like and share "their content", so it always ends up ...
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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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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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Does using Gmail's “Never send it to Spam” filter mean I can't train their spam filter?
Gmail's Spam filter generates an unacceptable number of false positives for me, and I'm very wary of losing real emails. I don't really want Gmail to delete anything by default, as I don't necessarily ...
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How can I detect the “spaminess” of a Twitter follower?
Are there any applications that can help determine the "spaminess" of a Twitter follower?
For example, looking at whether the user unfollows people who don't follow back, whether most of their Tweets ...
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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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What steps can I take to reduce the number of spam friend requests I get on Facebook?
Obvious spam users (ones with 0 friends and stock photos) tend to outweigh the number of legitimate friend requests on Facebook. How can one reduce the volume of spam users who friend you without ...
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Blacklisting only a few senders from Gmail's “Forward a copy of incoming mail” feature
I have two Gmail accounts, one trusted and one for "untrusted" websites.
98% of the "untrusted" websites are actually nice, they don't send me any spam, all of the emails they send are actually ...
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Gmail inbox suddenly flooded with spam after years of successful blocking [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
More spam is making it into my gmail inbox - is it due to something I've done?
After years of using Gmail and having it block spam properly, earlier today I got ...
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How to export a list of addresses that email in my spam folder was sent to?
With a Gmail username@gmail.com address, you'll also receive email sent to username+label@gmail.com addresses, very handy for creating filters.
I often username+website@gmail.com when signing up to ...
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How To Blacklist Spam Emails With Forged Addresses?
I have been receiving SPAM emails from forged addresses to my Hotmail account. They are filtered and classified as junk. What i want is to blacklist these SPAM messages to never receive them at all. ...
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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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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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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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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 to block all Emails addressed to someone else (not 'dot' problem)?
I get spam emails from sources I don't recognize AND addressed to emails that aren't even close to mine (not talking about the dot '.' issue that many have discussed in other threads).
It gets to my ...
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Besides GMail, do any email providers support wildcard address with spam filtering? (e.g. *@example.com)
I'm looking for an email service not provided by Google that supports wildcard or 'catch-all' email addresses at my custom domain. Spam filtering must occur on the wildcard/catch-all addresses. Paid ...
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Emails marked as spam
I am creating a newsletter for my customers and in the presses I sent many "check" emails to myself.
At some point, Gmail started marking them as spam.
My question is, if my account marked it as spam, ...
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Advanced email spam score check [closed]
Is there a service that lets me send an email to for checking the spam score it? (Not just the text and attachment content but also the headers and everthing related to the email.)
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How to remove spam filter for Google Apps email
I have setup email with my domain in Google Apps, but when I did, I did something they asked to protect me from spam mail. (I guess I added some TXT or MX records.)
But now I miss a lot of email ...
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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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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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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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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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Is this a spam email? It says it confirms a Paypal payment, what should I do?
FW:You just sent a payment to Colin Peterson De: PayPalAgregar a
contactos Enviado: Tue, 1 May, 2012 a la(s) 3:09 pm Para:XXX PayPal
You just sent a payment Transaction ID: ...
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Yahoo email account was used to send spams
My yahoo email account was sending spams at about 6:40pm today. I immediately updated my password.
I also checked "Recent Login Activity", but all recorded locations and IP addresses from 4:47 PM ...
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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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How do I report a spam content on Wikipedia?
I was reading biography of a diseased columnist. I saw that the newspaper company of his has put its logo behind his pictures, and mentioning their company name a lot of place in the page profusely.
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Rogue FaceBook Like
I've been getting a lot of news items in my Facebook news feed from things I've never heard of lately. I sent FB a bug report but they haven't responded. Today I found a way to look at all the pages ...
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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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Why are my e-mails landing in Spam in gmail? [duplicate]
I'm sending e-mails from a sendgrid. But all the e-mails are landing in the spam box of Gmail accounts, if it contains words like 2vin.com or www.2vin.com in the message body. Other mails are ...
