Obscene spam email

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Obscene spam email

I'm getting a lot of obscene email. I'm using the latest OS & apple mail program on an iMac. They continue to come from senders I have blocked. They to seem to come from many different senders and domain names, but I'm guessing they are all from the same sender. The spam filter is, so far, putting all of them in the junk mail folder where I block many of the senders in spite of that not seeming to do any good. Then I erase the all the junk mail in my folder(s). I have 3 email accounts. The crap is coming to only one. How can I shut this off short of quitting that address and starting a new one - lots of work!

iMac 21.5″ 4K, macOS 13.2

Posted on Mar 16, 2023 4:54 AM

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tbirdvet

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Mar 16, 2023 6:03 AM in response to lfnel36

Not sure who your email provider is but I recently went to my provider's web site and used their spam filter to block these emails and it really cut down on the number of junk emails I have received. Using the Apple mail blocking feature only moves them to junk at best.

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lfnel36 Author

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Mar 16, 2023 1:34 PM in response to tbirdvet

Provider said they can't do anything about it and the best approach is to just be patient, erase the contents of the junk mailbox when you feel like it and let the immature fools who are spending all day in Mom's basement on the internet get tired of it. Eventually it will stop.

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Mar 16, 2023 1:54 PM in response to lfnel36

I’ve had success with the third-party add-on SpamSieve and have used it for some years. This when macOS and its built-in junk mail filtering fails me.

Only downside is that you need to keep the Mac running all the time, if you want it to filter for any iPad or iPhone sharing the same email accounts.

Mail filter rules and blocks will fail against most spam, as spammers intentionally vary the sending details.

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samdon

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Mar 30, 2023 11:28 AM in response to lfnel36

I have been fighting spam emails for a few months. Mail allows you to mark a sender as blocked so email from them is placed in the junk folder. Doesn't solve the problem, tho it does separate the crap. I went to my aol.com mail on the web and you can block and delete specific emails but only up to 1,000. After a couple of days you need to cull some to add more, that's boring. A week ago I stumbled on Cisco-run SpamCop.net. It works GREAT. My junk/spam emails are down from 200+/day to maybe 30. Highly recommended.

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BDAqua

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Mar 30, 2023 12:09 PM in response to samdon

Great isn't it, if everybody used it there'd be no spam whatever... sometimes it'll need more reporting than others, depends how many people bought the list with your name on it! :) 👍

I've rec'd 7 for the month of March.:)

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BDAqua

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Mar 16, 2023 5:25 AM in response to lfnel36

I find spamcop.net quite useful in shutting them down, you pay $15 for tons of eMails to be reported, some take 3 or 4 reports before their ISP turns them off.

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