Community Chat

[shaggygirl]

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@chrystaltree wrote:

Delete them and move on.  The problem is that you opened some and read them and did all manner for poking around.  I can't begin to understand why.  But to the computer operated systems that are sending that stuff out, you raised your electronic had and said  "I'm interested!"  so now you are being slammed with the stuff.  Delete them and move on.  

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@chrystaltree NO, YOU ARE WRONG. 100% WRONG IN YOUR ASININE RIDICULOUS ASSUMPTION. 

[Porcelain]

You can filter your emails so that the email service deletes them before you even see them. Put any crude terms you don't want to encounter into the filter. Here's an article about how to do it for Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail/Outlook. Makeuseof is a reputable site.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/set-email-filters-gmail-hotmail-yahoo/ 

[D Kay]

Try marking them as spam instead of just deleting them.  My spam folder is full of them, they don't come to my regular email.

[shoekitty]

Another reason for  some of these emails is they way we use internet.  I mself have clicked on one of those stories on internet. The ones that have a paragraph then you have to click next, then another paragraph. Then next again.  I found out the longer you stay on those the more they can search your for the address   I also found out that this is the source of many foreign spam emails. From that they get shopping habits and phone numbers.  Wont do that again

[CalminHeart]

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@shaggygirl wrote:

For many years I've had have a hotmail email address that I use just for certain things, shopping mainly, Land's End, In the Swim, etc. Anyway I've always received a lot of junk mail that went into my junk mail folder but holy cow the past few weeks that folder has received a TON of junk mail with very se*&ally explicit subject lines. It comes from weird addresses, looks to me like foreign countries. I keep blocking the addresses but it keeps coming from others. I wish it would stop.

A couple of years ago it was tons of junk mail in Japanese or Korean or one of those foreign languages, that finally stopped, now this.

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The same thing is happening to me too.  I never open them.  I block most of them based on the subject that shows.  If in doubt, I right click and click block to see the sender.  If it's a scam or unknown person, I finish blocking.