I am getting a lot of X rated emails. Is there a way to block them.

Getting unsolicited X emails. Is there a way to block the emails.

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Posted on Nov 3, 2017 1:51 PM

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Nov 3, 2017 3:40 PM in response to nancyfromyork

Change email providers to one that does a more effective junk mail filtering. Of course, then may result in getting a new email address (maybe) which of course will not be in the hands of spammers.


I say maybe in that while the new email provided will give you an email address for their site, many email providers allow you to forward all your mail to another email address. For example, my ISP gives me an email account, but I do not want to use it. But may ISP wants to send me email about my account. So I configure my ISP's email account to forward anything that shows up there to my preferred email service.


I happen to use gmail (which has a very good spam filter), but of course Google knows everything about me as well. But that spam filtering is fantastic, so I'm staying where I am.

Nov 3, 2017 2:08 PM in response to nancyfromyork

Probably not. If there were a few email addresses they were sent from you could make a rule but the sent from addresses are probably different. It may have nothing to do with you, just a spam bot that harvested another person's contacts who has you in their address book. Short of changing your email account until it dies down, no real good fix I know of.

Nov 3, 2017 3:43 PM in response to nancyfromyork

PS. Back in the '90's I had an email account that got go on spam lists, and besides all the spam, I was also getting x-rated email. I tried to set up filters to block this stuff, but the content kept changing, and my list of email rules to stop this stuff got very complex and way too time consuming to keep up-to-date.


The email account that replaced this spam encrusted email account was my gmail account, back when you had to get an invitation to use gmail. I have never looked back, and the amount of spam that actually reaches my inbox is almost non-existent.

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