Since one or two weeks i get mails from strange @gmail adresses from a person named Ashley. They all have something to do with jobs/career etc. I think they are spam mails. All of them had something like a photo or a txt but I didn't open them. Does anyone now how to stop this?
Greets J
MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)
There's nothing you can do to stop spam. It's simply a part of life that comes along with having an e-mail address.
What you can do is manage it, which will help minimize the spam that you actually have to look at. If you're not already using Mail's spam filtering feature, turn it on now (in the Junk Mail pane of Mail's preferences). It will take some time to get it trained, but once it learns what is spam and what isn't, it will eliminate a lot.
If you're already using the spam filter, the spammer has obviously got a new trick that's getting past the filter. Just keep marking those messages as spam (Message -> Mark -> As Junk Mail) and eventually it will learn to recognize them.
There's nothing you can do to stop spam. It's simply a part of life that comes along with having an e-mail address.
What you can do is manage it, which will help minimize the spam that you actually have to look at. If you're not already using Mail's spam filtering feature, turn it on now (in the Junk Mail pane of Mail's preferences). It will take some time to get it trained, but once it learns what is spam and what isn't, it will eliminate a lot.
If you're already using the spam filter, the spammer has obviously got a new trick that's getting past the filter. Just keep marking those messages as spam (Message -> Mark -> As Junk Mail) and eventually it will learn to recognize them.
Hi,
Oh :( that's sad. I now had years without. But thanks for helping.
For everyone: I've searched a bit and apple has an mail adress so you can tell them you got an spam mail. I don't know what they are doing with it but here you can send it to: spam@me.com
J
Keep in mind, though, that that address is only for reporting spam sent to or from a me.com (or mac.com or icloud.com) address. You wouldn't want to use that to report spam that did not involve one of those servers.
Right! But I have an @me adress :P but important for others!
Have you tried to talk to Ashley? Maybe she doesn't know how you feel?
Haha funny - NOT! -.-" it's really ennoying
Have you done anything with the social network for professionals, such as LinkedIn. If you have that can make your email address available to this kind of abuse.
I know a friend asked me to join LinkedIn and I did. That is until I discovered how much junk mail I was going to get. I then backed out of that deal as quickly as I could but I am still getting the occasional junk mail for either jobs or dating services.
Allan
Yes :( I joined Windows live. Maybe thats the reason why. Strange thing though that I get the same mails to my second account so I think it's no connection to windows live?!?
J
but important for others!
Yup, we have to try to cover all bases here! 🙂
I would not be so sure of that, I have three accounts and only used use one of them with LinkedIn. Later a couple of the spammer were hitting all three of my email addresses.
Allan
Awww god. I hate Windows live now :(
I know what you mean. I feel the same way about LinkedIn which I was suckered into.
We live and we learn what to avoid.
Allan
If the first part of the incoming emails is always the same, you could create a Rule in Mail Preferences, so that every incoming email with that first part is immediately deleted.
That's what I do and it works fine. I sometimes see the Mail progress bar telling me about incoming Mail, but I never see it- it just goes directly to Oblivion.
Obviously all other emails with the same "@whatever" suffix keep coming. I don't lose them.
Screen shot of a rule written to do what Tom suggested.
Ok wow thanks! You are really nice guys here in the forum :) As soon as I get the next Spam I'll do that.
Spam mails from Ashley - what can i do?
