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yahoo junk mail
Is anyone getting a lot of spam from @yahoo.com? We get some each day. Each one is from an address we don't recognize. I can't block all yahoo addresses, because we have some friends who use it. Any help/advice would be appreciated.
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I heard on the radio the other day that Yahoo has just experienced another glut of problems from the hack that took place to over a billion (YES it said Billion) accounts back in 2013. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/t...hack.html?_r=0
There was just another hack recently. http://bgr.com/2017/02/16/yahoo-says...your-password/ So you can either put up with the spam or block all yahoo accounts and tell your friends that you have blocked all yahoo accounts due to all the spam and if they need to communicate with you they need to find an alternative source. Quite honestly, in light of all the security breaches I would not have a yahoo account. |
Changing email address is or can be a Royal pain.
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The breaches happened a few years ago as well..so damage is done.
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The hackers stole personal info like the answers to security questions.
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Originally Posted by Cats8
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Is anyone getting a lot of spam from @yahoo.com? We get some each day. Each one is from an address we don't recognize. I can't block all yahoo addresses, because we have some friends who use it. Any help/advice would be appreciated.
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I have a yahoo account only because I had to have it to join yahoo groups. I have all mail from those groups going to my gmail account, and I never even look at the yahoo account. There might be a lot of spam there, but it doesn't affect me. Spam does get sent to gmail, but it's pretty good (not perfect) at putting it in the spam folder automatically. The only problem is, it sometimes misidentifies legitimate emails as spam, so I have to keep checking the spam folder to see if there's good stuff in there.
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Originally Posted by dunster
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I have a yahoo account only because I had to have it to join yahoo groups. I have all mail from those groups going to my gmail account, and I never even look at the yahoo account. There might be a lot of spam there, but it doesn't affect me. Spam does get sent to gmail, but it's pretty good (not perfect) at putting it in the spam folder automatically. The only problem is, it sometimes misidentifies legitimate emails as spam, so I have to keep checking the spam folder to see if there's good stuff in there.
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Because of all the issues yahoo has been having lately I changed my email account to a different provider.
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Originally Posted by osewme
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Because of all the issues yahoo has been having lately I changed my email account to a different provider.
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Originally Posted by osewme
(Post 7766605)
Because of all the issues yahoo has been having lately I changed my email account to a different provider.
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I still have a Yahoo account but don't use it. It has been more of a testing account like if I am not sure i'm sending a link or attaching something correctly I use the Yahoo. Then either way if I've done something right or wrong I delete it.
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I have gmail for personal/business with a really weird address which has always helped me with not getting a lot of spam. I also have a gmail address for ordering stuff and hubby's sports. In the last month I have starting getting 50 plus spam emails in my business/personal account and double that in the other account. Not sure what's going on but I hate to switch away from my gmail accounts.
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Originally Posted by marge954
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I have gmail for personal/business with a really weird address which has always helped me with not getting a lot of spam. I also have a gmail address for ordering stuff and hubby's sports. In the last month I have starting getting 50 plus spam emails in my business/personal account and double that in the other account. Not sure what's going on but I hate to switch away from my gmail accounts.
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Don't open the email. Select it, mark it as junk, and yahoo will send it to your junk file. Then you can empty your junk file. Once you have marked that address as junk, it should automatically get sent to your junk file.
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When something comes in I don't recognize, I "hover" over the email address to see if it appears to be spam, and if it is, I just click SPAM and off it goes, never to be seen again....
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It really doesn't matter if you use yahoo, gmail, hotmail or whatever. They are all subject to hacking. Yahoo is in the limelight now, but one of the others will be sooner or later. I have yahoo and have had the same account for 20 years. Yes, spam happens and like some others mentioned if I don't recognize the address, I send it to spam. I can open it safely there if I think it might be something legit. It is really sad that people use their talents for wrongdoing, instead of trying to better the world.
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Originally Posted by johnette
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It really doesn't matter if you use yahoo, gmail, hotmail or whatever. They are all subject to hacking. Yahoo is in the limelight now, but one of the others will be sooner or later. I have yahoo and have had the same account for 20 years. Yes, spam happens and like some others mentioned if I don't recognize the address, I send it to spam. I can open it safely there if I think it might be something legit. It is really sad that people use their talents for wrongdoing, instead of trying to better the world.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/317...nfoworld_daily |
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