How do I stop somebody spamming using my e-mail address?
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Sounds like you got a nasty note from your isp...it aint insightbb is it? Them jerks sent me one tellin me they were gonna suspend my service...I dont spam anyone! I was told I had ports open and no firewall and blah blah..I double and triple checked my stuff...nothing wrong...I told them jerks if they sent me one more dumbass note like that I would not only help them rip my broadband out but the digital tv service as well! Frakkin exorbitant fees anyway! Anyone who has your e mail addy can use it to spam. All they have to do is dig out your ip address which is easily done.
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This possibilty exists. Either your computer, or another computer that has your e mail address on it, is badly infected with a virus to allow another person to send out thousands of spam e mails a day. \n\n"In 2003, spam investigators saw a radical change in the way spammers sent spam. Rather than searching the global network for exploitable services such as open relays and proxies, spammers began creating "services" of their own. By commissioning computer viruses designed to deploy proxies and other spam-sending tools, spammers could harness hundreds of thousands of end-user computers."\n\n"Most of the major Windows e-mail viruses of 2003, including the Sobig and Mimail virus families, functioned as spammer viruses: viruses designed expressly to make infected computers available as spamming tools"\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_%28e-mail%29#Spammer_viruses\n\nIn short the infected computer becomes under control of the spammer and becomes his own personal e mail server.\n\nAll you can do is be sure that your computer is free of virus, worms and trojans. Here is a good clean-up procedure if your currently are lacking one.\n\n1. Scan for virus and remove (free online scan) with BitDefender\n\nhttp://www.bitdefender.com/site/home/...\n\n2. Scan for trojans and remove (free online scan) with Ewido\n\nhttp://www.ewido.net/en/\n\n3. Scan for ad/spyware and remove (free download) with Spybot Search & Destroy\n\nhttp://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybo...\n\nIf your computer is clean, then all you can do is wait until the owner of the infected computer that is sending spam with your address relalizes what is going on and cleans-up his computer.\n\nFor further infomation you can Google the word "botnet"\n\nGood luck
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scam mark it as spam.
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Filter'em out. Free email comes with 15 filters, if you need more then you have to pay.\n\nI simply report'em as spam and they are deleted right away and I don't see them in future. Simply click on the box in front of email and hit the button spam. If email is open simply hit spam.
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I would recommend you switching to Thinderbird, it comes with spam filter.\n\nhttp://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
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If its just spam in general, go here: http://www.ftc.gov/spam/ and you can forward your email to them. This is a government agency cracking down on email spam. Forward the spam to: spam@uce.gov
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If you have a web mail address your best option is to use the "mark as spam" function (or something similar).  \n\nHowever, if you use Outlook or Outlook Express (or something like that) you should switch to Mozilla Thunderbird (free, mozilla.com), it will block most of your spam if you use the "mark as junk" feature.  \n\nAlso, if by "addresses that resemble mine" you mean they are  using the same email provider (@ISP_Name.com), using Thunderbird's message filters can usually eliminate all of that type of spam--think "To and CC lines contain (@My_ISP.com) and don't contain (My_Email_Address)". There are also options if your email generally is contained in the To or CC lines.  Just be sure to have it move mail thought as junk to the junk folder, not delete it--although it has NEVER mistaken something that wasn't junk for something that was while I've been using it, it is better to be safe than sorry.\n\nIf all else fails, change your email address and be more careful with it next time.  Make a "spam" yahoo (or other free web mail) account; if a website needs an email address, and you are not sure if they are legitimate, give them your "spam" yahoo account--you can always check it periodically for anything good.
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try blocking their email address, using your spam function. if they use different email addresses, block all of them, or you can choose to block all unknown email addresses, other than those in your address book. meanwhile, you can also report the abuse to your email provider. the address is usually abuse@provider.com, eg: abuse@hotmail.com, abuse@yahoo.com, etc.
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select the email, and press on "report as spam" or "this is spam" or something like that (can't remember the exact sentence). Mail provider should block those mails when you report them as spam!
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If you're using Yahoo email, open it up and look in the upper right corner for "options" in blue letters.  Click on options and you should see a submenu for managing spam (also in blue letters). Click on that and you can adjust your spam settings.\n\nplrr
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Use "spam" (a work that Yahoo! can use to help you block unwanted emails out) on him.
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If you are using a free web-based mail service, such as Yahoo! Mail, I guess the easiest thing for you to do is to drop your current email address and create a new account. Tell all your friends and family that you have done so, and your inbox should be relatively free from spam from then on.\n\nThen, DO NOT answer ANY spam letter you get. All those offers of free iPods, free XBOX games, free HP notebooks, offers from people overseas saying that your cousin died and left you TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS U.S. and all you need to do is write to them to collect it...they are all spam. You answer any of them, or you click on any of the links they contain, and you have just told the whole spam world "here I am, spam me please". As soon as you confirm that it's spam, delete it. Period.\n\nThen, make sure that your SpamGuard (or whatever else that that feature is called) is enabled in your new web-based email account. Any mail that you receive that you know is spam, click on the button that says "Mark this mail as spam". The more you use it, the more the system will learn to recognize spam and automatically divert it to your Junk mail folder.\n\nThen, all of those popup ads that appear are also mostly spam in the making. Get one of those toolbars that have a Popup Blocker (like Yahoo! Toolbar) and enable it. I feel that any advertiser who has to resort to popups to get my attention doesn't deserve my attention. (sorry Orbitz!)\n\nFinally, keep your antivirus and spyware applications running and up-to-date, and periodically scan your machine, every day for spyware and every week for viruses is a good plan. And get and install a good software firewall on your machine as well.\n\nP.S.: That poster who said that if you use Google Mail you won't get spam isn't exactly correct. What is true is that it doesn't get as much spam as a lot of the other services get, but they do receive spam. I have a GMail account which I don't use with many people and I still get three or four spam mails every time I open my inbox. The good thing though is that it is almost never in my main inbox, but is in the Spam folder already, making it easy to delete it at once.
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get a spam blocker software or u may activate spam blocker of ur mail provider company..
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Regarding the advice above to click the Unsubscribe link, I suspect they're playing with you.  Clicking that link will just send confirmation to the spammer that they have a good address for you.  Then they can sell it to other spammers as a confirmed address and you get even more spam.
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Set your spam filter on High, spam any that get through, and don't open any e-mail if you don't know exactly who it is from..That did it for me.
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Turn you spam on in your e-mail preferences.  When you receive mail in your inbox that is spam - put a check mark by it and click the spam button.  You will never get rid of spam.  Give your e-mail only to people and businesses your trust.  Never reply to select the unsubscribe, you are only confirming they reached a good account.
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You can try changing your filters so you only get e-mail from people in your address book, but that has its limitations.\n\nLegally there really isn't anything you can do. \n\nI had someone do this to me one time to be mean.  This girl put my name and e-mail address on every stupid list serve and junk mail group she could find.  I opened my e-mail one day and had over 1000 junk e-mails!!!  I had to get a new e-mail account.