i am using yahoo mail how to know whether it was a spam mail or not?
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Just block the mail with the Yahoo spam gaurd, it should do the rest, if not it's someone attacking you with a randomizer and I sudgest making the settings on your mail secure for one, and so only people in your address book can send stuff to your inbox.
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Number 1 report the emails as spam, number 2 go to there profile and report them to yahoo and let them know that they are threting you thats the ez way
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That's a good question, I know they were working on it a short time ago, but I have noticed that more spam is in my in box and I did not give out my email address but what I do is check the email boxes that I know are spam and click the spam box above , you should get a thank you notice from yahoo if this is done correctly.  And if persists contact yahoo.
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u can check the boxes n report them as spam.
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Does this count as spam?
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Yahoo doesn't have the man power to evaluate and act on every piece of bogus email; it's impossible. The best thing you can do is mark it as SPAM.
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look in bulk box may be there If so click on not spam for that email. Go to options then filters see if address is listed. Also check blocked addresses. Note SPAM in yahoo goes to bulk
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When you open your email, you should see a button called "SPAM". Just click on it. The email will be reported and deleted from your box.
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Spam is any message or posting, regardless of its content, that is sent to multiple recipients who have not specifically requested the message. Spam can also be multiple postings of the same message to newsgroups or list servers that aren't related to the topic of the message. Other common terms for spam include unsolicited commercial email (UCE) and unsolicited bulk email (UBE). \n\nThe individuals who send spam are typically people who purchased or harvested a list of email addresses. They send messages from numerous different addresses to all areas of the Web. \n\nAll mail originating from an ISP has an originating IP address embedded in the full address headers. This address helps to identify the sender of the email and track the individual to his or her service provider. Individuals who use an ISP address in their spam are forging mail headers if the originating IP line is absent in the spam.\n\nThe best way to prevent spam is to be careful with your email address. Spammers often create mailing lists by using scanning programs to search postings to Internet bulletin boards and newsgroups. One way to prevent this is to add an "x element" to your user ID when posting a message to any bulletin board or newsgroup. For instance, instead of MemberID@yahoo.com, your email address could read MemberIDX@yahoo.com or MemberIDnospam@yahoo.com. Try to be as creative as possible with both the placement and use of special characters. That way, even if a crafty spammer uses a user ID-scanning program, you'll have a better chance to beat it. (Just remember to remove the "x element" if you answer a post with email.) \n\nAlso, don't give out your email address without knowing how it will be used. Read the terms of use and privacy statements of any site before telling them your address. If you can't find their privacy statement, don't tell them your address. \n\nIf you get spam, do NOT reply, even if the message offers to unsubscribe you. A reply simply tells the spammer your email address is active and you'll get even more junk email. Please reference the article below What should I do if I get spammed? for more information.\n\nReport spam abuse. When you forward us the email, please be sure to include the full header. Without it, we can't tell where the email came from. Every complaint that is sent to us by Yahoo! members will be investigated. However, if the email does not come from an Yahoo! member, we will forward it on to their provider so that they may take action. \n\n**************\nWhat should I do if I get spammed?\n\nFor starters, do not reply to a spam email, even if the message offers to unsubscribe you. Never respond to the spam email's instructions to reply with the word "remove." This is a ploy to get you to react to the email and will alert the sender that your email address is open and available to receive mail, which greatly increases its value. If you reply, your address may be placed on more lists, resulting in more spam. \n\nNever click on a URL or web site address listed within a spam email. This could alert the site to the validity of your email address, potentially resulting in more spam. \n\nNever sign up with sites that promise to remove your name from spam lists. Although some of these sites may be legitimate, more often than not, they are address collectors. The legitimate sites are ignored (or exploited) by the spammers, and the address collection sites are owned by spammers. In both cases, your address is recorded and valued more highly because you have just identified that your address is active. \n\nReport spam abuse. When you forward us the email, please be sure to include the full header. Without it, we can't tell where the email came from. Every complaint that is sent to us by Yahoo! members will be investigated. However, if the email does not come from an Yahoo! member, we will forward it on to their provider so that they may take action.
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I consider e-mail from Yahoo admin as spam!
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Go to your email account-click on options-select spam guard  make sure its on.  That's all there is to it.
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Don't open it. And if you do, don't go to the bottem and click on where it says "remove me from your mailing list" Thats a trick they use to find out if its an active mailbox. Once you do that, they add you to more and more lists. Turn on your yahoo Spam guard. Its under Mail options. When ever you get spam, put a check in the box next to its name and hit "Spam" up at the top of Yahoo mail.\n\nSomeone might have signed you up for an offer, or they might have sent out a mass email and lucked out with getting you.   Good luck
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This can be a bit tricky because people that send spam usally do not do it from their computer. They have infected some poor user and are using his computer to send out mass emails.. \n\nTo answer your question you could look at the header of the email and see what the ip address its comming from. Or if its someone that doesn't know what there doing their email address could be there.\n\nIf your using Outlook express right click on the email then go to properties and pick the detail tab. In Outlook right click on the email then go to options. You should see the email header at the bottom of the option window. This will show you exactly the way it was recieved. If you look at the from field it will have the email address. It most likely will be a string of characters @ some free email service.
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They're spam.  My guess is the trick is they wait for you to reply, wondering where the message went, and then they know that you have an active email address.
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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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There's a lot of iterations of this trash mail.  There are also a lot of scripts that just look through web pages for email addys to find victims to spam.\n\nCheck out www.419eater.com for a laugh and more info.
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The best way I address this is by the "do i know you" factor...If it's a friend's email address, then it's most likely not spam...the reason I say most likely and not "definitely" is because hackers can sometimes use lists of emails you've sent, and mimic them to act like they're your friends. Yahoo does a pretty good job with filtering these.  In general, just don't open anything from people you dont know.  If you know they and dont open it, they'll let you know you havent opened their email and they can resend it to you.