Inbox FLOODED and SWAMPED with spam. What to do?

Question

My inbox is being bombarded right and left with spam email. I have 53000 unread messages in it and almost all of it is spam. Every day i am getting 100's of spam emails. Its spam bomb going on. I have replied to many of these senders saying, "please do not email again. You have to stop or I will report you to police". But it has no affect whatsoever and instead the volume begins to increase. I am deeply concerned about this because I miss personal emails of my friends. They get buried in these 10's of thousands of spam messages and I cannot even notice them. I have been accused by friends of not responding to their emails. I visited few online websites that require you to create a login in order to visit the site such as chatrooms, internet forums, and some shopping sites too. I provided my email address to these sites because otherwise they don't let you create login id. But the spam has become a cancer and I need serious help how to end this nuisance.

Answer 1

Math, start another E mail address. ( g mail) Then when you research something use that address. It helps.

Answer 2

Your big mistake is replying to any of them This just confirms that your email exists and is active. They then sell it to any other spammers. You must always ensure you have a fully updated anti-spyyware/virus running. A scan with a good malware detector at intervals will ensure you do not have hidden spyware. http;//malwarebytes.org will handle this. there is a fee version for scanning. NEVEr log in to any site unless the login page has the https:// url rather than the http:// as these are not encrypted and can often be rogue sites. Do not visit any site when your browser warns you not to. Ensure your operating system and browsers are fully updated. Always use passwords which do not relate to you, family, friends, pets, addresses or phone numbers. These are things that easily slip out in conversation and make it easy for someone to guess a password. Do not annoy people on line or in emails, they can deliberately send your email address or use it to log in to bad sites known to be spam collectors. This includes most porn sites. Once you are on these lists you can not get off them easily, so you now need to set up spam filters, create a junk folder and set some detail of the emails that is common to many for terms to treat as spam and divert those mails to the junk folder. Makes it easier to sort them out. Or just change you email and be more careful where you use it in future.

Answer 3

You should have made a disposable address for signing up to sites.



after you have signed up

you then delete the Disposable address.



Every Email provider has this function.



The best thing for you to do now is,

Create a new Email account,









.

Answer 4

I agree with Max. Since I set up my gmail address (and cancelling my old ISP email address) I have had only one "spam" email and that was a mistaken one from MSN !

Answer 5

Have you been on a phishing site ?