Scams and Spam (Page 2): I get phishing emails that appear to be from my internet provider or my bank saying they are updating services, or that someone changed my password, etc, so...

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

I get phishing emails that appear to be from my internet provider or my bank saying they are updating services, or that someone changed my password, etc, so that I need to "sign in" immediately to check on that - of course, they always provide a convenient link which I can use to sign in with! But most of the time these idiots actually send the email from a gmail account - something like "bancofameric@gmail.com" - but they have done a good job of copying and pasting the BoA logo and font, so I could see how people could be fooled.

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

I'm probably in a minority of 1!! I pay Gmail .$99 a month for extra storage. I do not delete email. I just allow it to "sit there" on Gmail's servers. I can always find a past email by searching. I do have quite a few specially created labels for quick searches of specific types of email. I know, it's $.99 a month of superfluous expense, but that's easier (for me) than sifting through email and deleting. To each his/her own!!

Mark

PaulBrit Loc: Merlin, Southern Oregon

Go on to Proton VPN and ProtonMail. Use a solution like LastPass for password management.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Soul Dr. wrote:

I use Firefox as my browser. I have been using it for years. I have it set up so it does a very good job at catching scam and spam emails.
The few that do get thru, I report as spam or block them.
Like others have said, unsubscribing just lets spammers know they have found a valid email address.

Will

Firefox is not your email client, it's how one gets to their email client, unless one uses a dedicated client like Thunderbird.
I use Firefox, but my email client I log in to is Comcast, in a window in Firefox.
The Comcast email client flags/removes spam emails, not the browser. I can set filters in the Comcast email client.

jackm1943 Loc: Omaha, Nebraska

I don't get them too often, but the ones I do get are the type from the Nigerian who has $15 million for me if I provide a little information. I actually wish I got more because they are a hoot to read.

bcplimpton Loc: Southern New Jersey

I also get many a day. I usually report (forward) them either to the business that they are spoofing or to my ISP's "report abuse" site. Almost all businesses have and email address for reporting fraudulent use of their corporate identity. I use Thunderbird as my mail reader and once I have looked up a businesses spam/abuse/fraud/spoofing report id Thunderbird remembers it and will prompt me with a list of similar ID's as I begin to type. I am a firm believer that just ignoring these does nothing to stop them so I take action against them, or at least I think I do.

bcplimpton Loc: Southern New Jersey

I also get many a day. I usually report (forward) them either to the business that they are spoofing or to my ISP's "report abuse" site. Almost all businesses have and email address for reporting fraudulent use of their corporate identity. I use Thunderbird as my mail reader and once I have looked up a businesses spam/abuse/fraud/spoofing report id Thunderbird remembers it and will prompt me with a list of similar ID's as I begin to type. I am a firm believer that just ignoring these does nothing to stop them so I take action against them, or at least I think I do.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

bcplimpton wrote:

I also get many a day. I usually report (forward) ... (show quote)

I look at the header info and find the IP address where the email originated, adding the hosting company where the links go, and report (forward) them to the appropriate abuse emails.
I've had a bunch of domains I reported deleted.

For any spam I receive via my website contact page, I can block them from seeing my website. I like that!

sgt hop Loc: baltimore md,now in salisbury md

i use firefox and aol mail...most spam trapped...but a few sometimes get in.....i look through my spam box as once in awhile a non spam mail is routed there....

EdJ0307 Loc: out west someplace

I receive the UHH Daily Digest and keep it around for a few days before deleting it. Many years ago instead of hitting "Delete" I accidently hit "Spam". I guess that got back to Admin and that pissed them off so much that they cancelled my UHH account. I had to sign up again using one of my other email addresses.

Soul Dr. Loc: Beautiful Shenandoah Valley

Longshadow wrote:

Firefox is not your email client, it's how one gets to their email client, unless one uses a dedicated client like Thunderbird.
I use Firefox, but my email client I log in to is Comcast, in a window in Firefox.
The Comcast email client flags/removes spam emails, not the browser. I can set filters in the Comcast email client.

Yeah, I forgot, I get my email thru Hotmail, that I have used for over 20 years.

will

GARGLEBLASTER Loc: Spain

What is odd for me, is the fact that now I am not receivimg any porn sites and only SCAMS telling me that I have millions and millions of dollars that are mine but I have to pay $100 first to cover administration. I'm sure that veryu meny people recive the same thing, like the female who is dying of cancer and her husband left her millions that she wans me to administer via a charitable organisation. Or the diplomat who is working at an airport and has discobvered two boxes of mine that contain millions I often wonder what would happen if I gave him an address to forward my boxes to me.

The ones telling me that I am being compensated for having been scammed. I never have been.

Indi Loc: L. I., NY, Palm Beach Cty when it's cold.

When I distrust someone/place/thing I use my Yahoo mail account. Excellent spam filtering.
For my regular email accounts I use MS Outlook as my emailer with Optimum as my provider.
Neither Optimum nor Outlook are great at blocking spam or scams, but when I do have an obvious spam/scam message, and you can almost always tell, I login to my affected account via my browser and use the down arrow in the message to “block the sender’s domain,” then I select “block sender and mark as spam,” from the same list. Doesn’t work as well as Yahoo, and I imagine, Gmail, but it helps. I don’t trust gmail too much because it’s a Google product and notorious for tracking and selling your information.

Somethings you might want to remember:
1. You can usually tell if a message is fake by opening it (NOT ANY ATTACHMENTS OR LINKS,) and seeing what the real email address is.
2. NEVER EVER CLICK ON AN ATTACHMENT OR LINK FROM A SUSPICIOUS EMAIL!

A fake email address might look like this:

Chase@axqyewmyujkjk.pl.

Hope this is helpful to you all.

Indi

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Indi wrote:

When I distrust someone/place/thing I use my Yahoo... (show quote)

The Comcast client does not display images in an email unless one tell it to do so.
If Comcast puts an email in the spam folder, it disables all links in the email.
An Email "from" can be spoofed to look like anything they want it to, even a legitimate address. Only looking at the header info will tell where it really originated.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

Where ya been?