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I Need To Stop Spam E-Mail, Please Read, I Have Something To Say-->

Hello it's Byron,


is there a Way that I Can Stop Me from getting Spam E-Mail? EveryTime I open all My E-Mail Accounts I See a Whole bunch of Spam E-Mail in The Spam Folders when I open up My iMac E-Mail, I Have always been getting Spam E-Mail since 1998 when I 1st started using Computers & I wanted to know if there is a way where I Can Stop getting Spam E-Mail all together? I Have 7 E-Mail Accounts & there all getting Spam E-Mail is there a Mac Software where I can Stop getting Spam E-Mails? I Have seen a Software to be able to Stop Spam E-Mail but it's for a PC Microsoft Computer http://www.mailwasher.net/ Do they make something like that for an Apple iMac Computer to? or it has not come out on The Apple iMac Computer side yet?


From Your Online Friend Byron. 🙂

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Posted on Oct 2, 2010 2:56 PM

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Posted on Oct 2, 2010 3:21 PM

I don't know of a software that will stop SPAM. You need to go into the settings for each email account and check and see if they have anything you can enable or disable; other than that: be very very careful giving out email addresses!

I have several online email accounts I keep for "junk" on purpose, such as Yahoo. I did not even give my full name or other correct information - Yahoo does not need to know where I live or what my phone number is. And, Yahoo will sell your email address shortly after you create an account unless you immediately go into preferences and UNcheck about 100 things that they will share your email with by default. I found this after opening my first Yahoo account - I was receiving up to 300 spam emails every day. So I finally closed the account and opened a new one with the wrong zip code and no identifying information and I unchecked all those marketing preferences. Have not received one spam email since.

So, that might be one way for you to stop it: check out their settings (check everything everywhere) and, if necessary, open a new account. Send out an email notification to friends with new email address. Close the old account.
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