I keep getting mail on my iPhone that’s says it’s being sent to account ***@aol.com I don’t have an aol account. This account isn’t under my accounts in the mail settings and I can’t block these emails it get rid of it. I saw someone else was experiencing this problem but no one responded.
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iPhone X, iOS 14
I just saw this on another website and I thought I’d share it!
In Gmail (NOT the mobile app):
1) Go to settings
2) Click ‘see all settings’
3) Select ‘Filters and Blocked Addresses’
4) ‘Create New Filter’
5) Fill in the ‘To’ line with the address that you are receiving email for, but which doesn’t belong to you.
6) Hit ‘Create Filter’
7) Select what you want done with it. I chose to ‘Delete it’ AND ‘Also apply to # matching conversations’.
8) Move on with life.
I just saw this on another website and I thought I’d share it!
In Gmail (NOT the mobile app):
1) Go to settings
2) Click ‘see all settings’
3) Select ‘Filters and Blocked Addresses’
4) ‘Create New Filter’
5) Fill in the ‘To’ line with the address that you are receiving email for, but which doesn’t belong to you.
6) Hit ‘Create Filter’
7) Select what you want done with it. I chose to ‘Delete it’ AND ‘Also apply to # matching conversations’.
8) Move on with life.
@RobertBW, the spam has nothing to do with the AOL account, the spammer just puts this dummy @AOL email on the To: line of the email and then puts your actual email address (and probably 100 other people’s address) on the Bcc: line so you can’t see them.
Since the spammer is actually sending to your legitimate email on the Bcc: line you can try blocking the email address they sent the spam from but as they change this often it is a never ending process. What works better is to set a filter that moves any email sent to the @AOL addresses to the delete folder as they tend to use this address over and over again.
Really? I’ve tried the solution I found and it’s been working for a month or so. The emails have stopped.
I’ve provided some screenshots as to what I did to stop my problem. It may differ depending on what you do it on whether it’s on your phone or computer. The first image is from a site I found at https://support.google.com/mail/thread/70941648?hl=en and a comment said to “in the filter use HAS THE WORDS then type the aol address then tick mark as read and also delete it” with the image.
I followed this but my screen was different as I believe it varied based on your device. Personally, I tried directly from my phone... You have to go to gmail.com NOT the app but the WEBSITE itself. From there you have to make your screen look like the older version on a desktop. Or any cause you might as well try it on your computer. There will be a link that shows “Create a filter”. Click that and fill in your @aol email in the “To” box. It’ll show you all the emails that you have received to that email after clicking “Test”. If it shows the emails then click “Next Step”. Then select what you want to do with those emails and any future emails so click “Delete it” and submit it.
Congrats, your problem should be resolved. Sit back and relax. Hope that helps.
PS - Not guaranteeing anything but it has worked for me up to now.
I definitely would try to not open the emails and absolutely DO NOT click anything in the emails. I have found a solution
google: @aol delete message filter gmail
you will have to go to your gmail from a desktop
click settings
see all settings
Filters and blocked addresses
‘create new filter’
in the ‘To’ line fill in the email address you’re receiving emails from that doesn’t belong to you “name@aol.com
select ‘create filter’
select what you want done to it ‘delete it’
select ‘create filter’
this has worked for me!! Hope it helps
Hi! This MOSTLY worked for me. Same problem as everyone else...getting email to firstname@aol.com and dont have an aol account. So I did this:
In Gmail (NOT the mobile app):
1) Go to settings
2) Click ‘see all settings’
3) Select ‘Filters and Blocked Addresses’
4) ‘Create New Filter’
5) Fill in the ‘To’ line with the address that you are receiving email for, but which doesn’t belong to you.
6) Hit ‘Create Filter’
7) Select what you want done with it. I chose to ‘Delete it’ AND ‘Also apply to # matching conversations’.
8) Move on with life.
A few months later I am now getting email to firstnameminuslastletter@aol.com so now im facepalming but I just added that one to the blocked list as well...I guess Ill just keep adding emails to the growing list until someone comes up with a solution to block emails sent to all @aol accounts. BUT this solution will at least help.
We had the same problem. Open Gmail through Google, not the app
Above your list of emails, you will see a search section. Click on the down arrow at the bottom right of this section and follow the prompts to create a filter. We chose: To: (the fake aol account) and Delete.
It would be interesting to know how this happened in the first place.
Happens to me as well. This is what I found that seems to be working thus far and takes into account the fact that they “cc”
it as well. Until they find a work around for this filter 😡
-from gmail(not the app) go to settings.
-click filters
-under the “has the words” line, type in the aol address they spoof to, select next
-then choose what you want done with it. I chose “delete it”. Select continue and apply to current inbox and save it.
hope this helps!
I did what DrDana57 said and started deleting apps off my phone and iPad. I started with the “sus” ones first games and such and I still got a few but they were no longer from @naver they were from something random @Gmail. Then I did a clean sweep and took off Pinterest, Spotify, Canvas, etc; everything, and haven’t got an email since. I will add the important apps back one by one to see which are safe.
Hello Less, it is likely that your real email address is on the bcc line (blind carbon copy) which you can’t see and the @aol address is just a dummy address that you see. Follow the guidance in the answer to this thread on how to block the @aol address but be aware that this does not stop email from going to your real email address, it only blocks that specific address, if the spammer starts using a new @aol (or other address) then you will need to block those as well.
No I don’t ever play them so I have no problem deleting them! Just so strange. But like I said, creating the filter through gmail has worked! It deletes all the messages and send them to trash instead of my inbox!
has anybody tried contacting apple support? Do they have anything to say about it?
Go to your Gmail (desktop) go to settings and create filter. Add “yourname@aol.com” in the to: section. Add “aol.com” in the key words section. Then click delete mail with all key words
works like a charm!
This has also been driving me insane, I tried creating a rule and this should help, log into your mail on your desktop and go to preferences, click the 'Junk Mail' tab and in Junk Mail Behaviours make sure Junk Mail Filtering is enabled. Then hit the Perform Custom Actions radio button, now click Advanced...
If you're the same as me the spam email will always be cc'd
so I set this rule of
cc - contains - ju@aol.com and move to the junk folder of whichever account you'd like
Hope this helps. Cheers, John
Hello Averi, I have the same issue with my gmail account, and it appears that a frequent practice amongst spammers is to use an @aol.com account on the To: line and then include the recipient address (your email) under the Bcc: line which is why you are receiving the email but do not see your address. Since the spammers will often change or use different From: addresses the above recommendation from un_professional is a good solution as it will block anything coming from that @aol.com address but the spammer can always use a new @aol.com address in the future and place your email address in the Bcc: line again so you may need to do this again in the future :(
I’ve had the same problem for nearly a year. It has morphed from
{my email address without the domain name}@aol.com
to
{my email address without the domain name} + random numbers + “@aol.com”
and there are always several similar address forms cc’d. Of course, none of these addresses are real.
seems to me to only way to filter this spam is to have a rule that uses wildcards.
ie:
{my email address without the domain name} + “*” + “aol.com”
where the asterisk is the wildcard. This would capture all of my problem spam.
DO NOT press unsubscribe from the email itself or from the "unsubscribe and report as spam" option of gmail. I did and now I received 3-4 of them every day.
Spam AOL mail account that’s not mine
