2000!!! Failed emails in 3 weeks!! Anybody else?

Man this is out of control! I've honestly gotten 2000 plus emails returned in the past 3 weeks. All of them are failed, virus, a new game or something like that. I have them all filtered out but still it's getting to be a pain. I've gone to take a shower and come back to almost 50 of them. Is this going on with anybody else? Is there an easy way to deal with these?

I assume these are from 3rd party address books who have gotten a virus and sent out their emails as myself. I don't know, I'm just venting so if you have something to add go for it. I wish I could sell these all, I'm starting to build a pretty nice collection!

Adam Block

I get over 250 a day in my yahoo mail. A couple of weeks ago I finally set up my Roadrunner account and I have yet to get 1 spam mail in that mailbox.

If I dont clean out my yahoo mailbox every other day, it will be overloaded and I will not get anymore messages until I clean it out. I think it is because all of the buying/selling over the internet we do. And the yahoo acount is the one we mostly use.

But it really is pathetic. I know im sick of it.

Someone's computer got infected and picked my email address to mail viruses to. 100+ in less than 45 seconds. I finally had to block the email address from my mail server so it would stop.

I'm never sure if I am being sent viruses or not, but if I don't recognize the name and subject, I don't open it. 99% of my business is face to face so I don't have to worry about that. My Hotmail account is about 7 years old, and it manages to accumulate about 30 junk emails a day. How many are viruses? I don't know. I would assume every one that has the subject line of "(none)" is a virus, but I erase them all anyway.

Man, you have to set up email to filter out the garbage or it will drive you nuts. I set mine up for certain keywords and also to filter out anything with an attachment. I will then scan the DELETED folder in case something important got sucked into it and then wipe out the entire folder at one time.

But the damned spammers are doing this just to drive us crazy. I filter out the word 'viagra'. Then within a day or two, I see I am getting messages with 'via-gra' in it. So I filter out them. Then I start getting "v i a g r a". And so on and so on. What is the point of them doing this if not just simple harassment? Do the marketeers really believe that someone will just get worn down to spend their entire life savings on viagra from every email they get?

If Symantec is behind the hundreds of SPAM mails I have gotten trying to sell me the latest Norton 2003 package I will be removing their products from my system and never buy a single one of their products again.

This crap has gotten ridiculous! It is cheap advertising for the advertisers, but it is all costing us time effort and money to keep from getting overwhelmed by it all. And it certainly is contributing to a general slowness of the internet in general just because of the bandwidth taken up to transport those bazillions of messages to everyone.

And those removal messages at the bottom of the SPAMs are jokes. All they do is confirm that yours is a valid email address and put you more solidly on other lists as well.

I'm thinking I may have to just shut off my email for a few days so the bounce back messages may get me deleted from at least some of the SPAM servers out there.

The ONLY thing I have ever done that was even partially successful at slapping the spammers was with the ones whom would conveniently provide a fax number. I would fax that number a message saying that any further spam mail from them would be construed as explicit agreement for me to fax them copies of my collection of photographs of black cats sitting in coal mines at midnight. They are advised to make sure their toner is full and the paper cartridge is full as well, as my collection is quite extensive. 'Waiting eagerly to hear back from you.'

That actually worked a couple of times, but it is rather time consuming.

One of my coworkers pointed this out to me the other day...

A good word to filter out is 'unsubscribe'... it won't catch all spam, but it'll catch a good number of them.

-Kat Hall

There is a program called SpamEater Pro on the market that is very effective in eliminating these unwanted emails. I've been using it for about 2 months and it has blocked about 95% of the garbage. It also has an option to log them, so that you can scan the folder for wanted emails (much like Rich mentioned).

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but, I think watching for the word "unsubscribe", sounds pretty reasonable!.... lol

....Neil

Yeah neil, I thought so too! So, I just got a junk mail and I went to filter unsubscribe. I was oh so happy about that idea and when I went to copy the word. Here's what is said:

To u nsubscribe from our future mailing click here

They're of course just wanting us to have to deal with them no matter what. I can't wait till we get some laws to back us up. As things sit I filter well over 1000 a month.

Adam Block

I believe it's getting to the point that we will have to delete all of the messages except those from people we give some magic pass code word to include in the email.

This whole spam thing is getting very annoying.