I've been wondering for a long time now, what the hell is SPAM when referring to email?
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Unwanted or unknown origin emails that clog your inbox
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send me the specifics, please.\n\nsometimes the big email servers break down under traffic, or their spam filters malfunction.\n\nCraig\ncraig@craigslist.org
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I think you mean spam.\nIt is there in the page usually on the top of the message, as Report Spam or Report Junk like this.
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It's because your email has alot of activity. It's a security thing. Sometimes it's just checking your capabilities or trying to minimize spam. who knows? Have you asked Yahoo?
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I use yahoo mail for my non-work email (particularly\nwhen I want to include my email address in something\nlike an externally published paper -- where it will become\nfodder for email-address-collecting bots).  Anyway, Yahoo\nemail does a great job of filtering out the spam.\n\nIf some spam occasionally slips through the filter,\nI mark it as "spam", and the filter learns to \nhandle it correctly.  I also check my "bulk" email\nfolder (where spam is re-directed) to check for\nfalse-positives.  When I first started, I found\na few *good* emails incorrectly categorized, so\nI marked them as "not spam", and the filter learned\nto recognize them as valuable.  After the first couple\nof weeks, I haven't found any more false-positives.
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Someone is spoofing your email to send spam.  There's not much you can do about it except mark it as spam and let it go.
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spam is all those marketing ads that you get in your inbox everyday and you just wished they'd not send them cause most of the time you never care...its always something you already have or are not interested in.\nan elevated case of spam is when someone sends you an email asking you to confirm your details...eg you get an email from a supposedly registered website eg. your bank saying you confirm your credit card number, SSN number .....and other personal imformation. usually it is not who you think they are but they will make it look like its legit, in such a case call the bank or whoever is asking for your info to confirm. this is known as phishing
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Whichever provider you use (and I bet you're talking about Yahoo! Mail) just look at the starting of the email, where you have To, From and other fields. You'll find a small link around there saying 'Show Full Headings' or somehing like that. Just click on it. It'll give you loads of bewildering info, but if I'm right, all you need to do is to copy-paste and and send the whole thing before the message to your ISP/email provider (I'm gyessing that this is a spam related query).\nIf you want to investigate yourself, just look at the path the email took, it'll be mentioned.\nNow if you want to go back to normal headers, just click on 'Show Concise header' or small header, whatever. You'll be back to normal.
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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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In the Spam folder???\n\nI might be missing something but it's the folder (on the left) below 'sent' and about 'Trash'.
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it sounds like someone is forwarding emails to you.\n\nother than that, I don't understand what you're saying.  there seems to be a question there, but I don't know what it is.
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The word "Spam" as applied to Email means Unsolicited Bulk Email ("UBE").\n\nUnsolicited means that the Recipient has not granted verifiable permission for the message to be sent. Bulk means that the message is sent as part of a larger collection of messages, all having substantively identical content.\n \n A message is Spam only if it is both Unsolicited and Bulk.
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If you are using the free yahoo mail service, then every email that you send and receive is scanned by Norton antivirus. \nThere is no safety agains spam as of now, except that all the unsolicited email will be dropped off in your bulk mail folder.
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HELL NO! Those are "fishing"/"spam" emails.. You open them and the incoded HTML/code sends a msg back to that person telling them your email address is valid then it gets thrown into their "spam" bank.. Then you get lots of SPAM! DONT ever open ANYTHING unless you know who the sender is! Best choice is to block HTML on your email preferences!
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True, but spam is not illegal.\n\nBe nice if you said what it is your trying to sell us, so we could decide if we need to open your email.\nHowever don't bank on it, most of us delete email.
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It is spam. Just delete it. DO NOT OPEN IT, DO NOT REPLY TO IT, DO NOT CLICK ANYWHERE IN THE EMAIL. If you interact with that email other than deleting it, it tells the spammer that it is a valid email address and you'll get more. Just delete any spam.
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lol yur funny! Spam mail. I lyke spam ham.