Why am I suddenly receiving spam on my AOL mail account? How do I block it? I didn't sign up anywhere stupid.?
That message you received and replied to was not real, it was a scam to get your account information and any other personal information it could get. Aol or any other E-mail service provider will NEVER, ever ask you for account information it already knows, and certainly not in an E-mail like that. Opening spam alerts the sender that your address is a valid one and they send you loads and loads more. Even if you get spam using your own address. If you E-mail yourself, remember what you sent and do not open any others, or any mail from people you do not know - ever. Only unsubscribe from mail that you, yourself actually asked for to begin with. Do not open any others. You can not completely stop all spam, but you can help to put a big dent in it. These instructions are for yahoo, but you can find similar equivelants for Aol. First, try not to open any of them, that only makes them send more and more to you. Check mark them and click on 'Spam,' this should stop those addresses from being delivered to your inbox. Use your spam guard and block address. Look for the 'Options' link at upper right corner of mail screen and click on it Options /mail options Click on 'spam' in the list on the left. Make sure spam guard is on, by checking in the little box. Then in 'Blocked Email Addresses,' enter the E-mail address you wish blocked, in the box after 'Add a blocked address' and click on the 'add' button, then click on save changes at top left of screen. You will never get mail from that address again. This should help you to control your spam. Other tips: Do not ever open E-mail from people you do not know; and unless you are absolutely sure who it is from then treat them as spam. Never, ever give out your account information or other personal information to anyone, for any reason - ever. If you are on a site and you absolutely have to sign up for something, check the entire page to make sure you uncheck any lines wanting to send you any other info, notices, catalogs, ads, and the like. Added detail: Yes, spammers change one item in their addresses a lot, so you might try blocking the entire domain, by putting in *@ thedomainyouwanttoblock.com for instance: *@seeyou.com Or, if they change the domain, instead of the company name you can block the name by putting in Imatheft_inc@* Hope this helps.
My email account was hacked and I'm not receiving email?
Fill out a Mail Restore form ASAP http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/cl... you only have 48 hours to restore lost mail Fill out a Contacts Restore http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/contact... Also do all of the following to protect your privacy and identity - Go to Options > Mail Options > POP & Forwarding to make sure your emails are not all being forwarded to the hacker’s address. Normally the hacker will have your mail forwarded to his address - make sure the alternate email address is still yours and you have a security question and answer set - until you get your Contacts back find some other way to reach them - Facebook, twitter, text, etc -- to inform them that your account was hacked. They will be getting an email from the scammer claiming to be you needing to borrow money for some emergency - if you used your same username and password for ANY other site, you need to immediately change all of those accounts. Unfortunately 80% of people use the same username and password for everything. Hackers know this and once they know your email login they'll try those same details on Facebook, Paypal, Twitter, Linkedin, Amazon, EBay, every major bank and credit card company, etc to try and hack those accounts as well - if your emails contained ANY financial information (Paypal receipts, online banking statement, credit card bills, et) you need to IMMEDIATELY inform these institutions. You will have to freeze your bank and credit card accounts and get new account numbers and cards sent to you. Set up a new email address to change your Paypal account. These hackers will go through all of your emails to see if there is anything they can use to steal your money and identity - also consider filing a fraud alert with the credit bureaus -- read the FTC website http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/id... You didn't get an email recently that looked like it was from Yahoo asking you to verify or update your account, or that your account had exceeded its limits, or that there was suspcious activity did you? That was not from Yahoo, that was a phishing scam
I am not receiving any emails from one friend; it seems that I am receiving all other emails satisfactorally.?
REMOVE BLOCKED SENDERS YOU OR THEM MAY HAVE DONE THIS BY ACCIDENT http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or... go clear some of them some spammers get enough bounced back on them they quit sending you mail clear them this way open mail page on right side click options then Block Addresses move your mouse over the ones you dont want blocked click remove block when it got that bad for me i removed all to get a fresh start YOU OR SOMEONE ELSE NOT RECIEVING EMAIL?? http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or... EMAILS RETURNED BY POSTMASTER FAQ"S http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/ya...
My email account is sending spam without my consent. What do I do?
You, unfortunately, have fallen victim to a virus. The virus has turned your machine into a zombie. Spammers do this. Somewhere along the line, you got a piece of spam. The spam had an attachment. You opened the attachment thinking it was one thing when really it was the virus and it infected your machine. The virus hijacked your address book. Not only is the zombie sending spam to your friends, it is sending spam to a whole lot of other lists the zombie got from other machines, maybe even from your friends. By hijacking your address book, all of the spam appears to be legitimate to all of your friends because your email client is using your address, so your address is who the email is from and looks innocent. Those bounced emails are from addresses which no longer exist. Spammers do not care if an address is good or not as it costs them nothing to send. YOU get the bounce, not them. Zombie spam tends to replicate the zombie into every machine it can when it is sending spam. The spam is infected so anyone getting the spam, if they open the attachment part of the email can get infected as well. The zombie program is usually in an attachment since it is a binary file, NOT a text file, and it will be a ZIP archive or another type of archive, since most email virus programs do NOT scan attachments if they contain an archive file. Time to do a search using your favorite search engine for anti-virus software. Look for AVG, which is a free package and highly rated. Be SURE to get it from their home page. Downloading a package from anywhere else could be preinfected with a virus.
How do you fix Yahoo Mail that is not receiving email?
Hi there!Not getting the emails you expect is frustrating. Use these steps to identify if there's an issue with your account or the sender's account that's preventing the messages from arriving.Check if your account has any errorsSign in to your Yahoo Mail account on a computer and send yourself an email.If you get an error - address that to fix the issue.If you don't get an error - your account is working as expected.Check your account settingsThese settings can prevent email from getting to your Inbox:Spam folder - Check your spam folder to see if the email was incorrectly marked.Blocked address - The sender may have been blocked by mistake.Email filters - Check your filters to see if the email could've arrived in another folder.Reply-to address - Make sure your reply-to address is blank.Have the sender check their accountIf you didn't find anything wrong with your account, then the issue is on the sender's side.Make sure they entered your full email address correctly.Suggest they contact their email provider for further assistance.
Not receiving email from Seeking Alpha subscriptions.?
I get the email change confirmation and change notice messages from Seeking Alpha after changing email address to Yahoo mail account but none of the subscriptions appear in my Inbox or Spam folder after the change. It works fine with a Hotmail account. Is Seeking Alpha being blocked by Yahoo email? Messages are from Seeking Alpha [account@seekingalpha.com].
Why do I receive strange characters in my yahoo email when sent from an aim account? Can this be fixed?
In the new Yahoo! Mail, you don’t do this with your browser anymore. Now, just change your character encoding setting right in Yahoo! Mail! Here’s how: In the toolbar, click More Actions and select Set Encodings. From the list that appears, select the encoding that matches the message’s content. Note: Only one character encoding set may be viewed at a time. And in this case, changing your browser’s encoding setting will not work. Or in the old Traditional = Select any email where the header information is displayed, but there is nothing in the "body" of the message where you would expect to find text, etc. Move your mouse to the area of the expected "body" of the message and right-click...on the menu that appears, click on "Encoding"...on the menu that appears, if "Auto Select" has a check mark, leave it as is...if not click "Auto Select"; then this menu will disappear...right click again in the "body" to cause the same menu to display again...then click on "Western European (Windows)"...you should now be able to view the "body" of all messages that you couldn't view before...obviously, if the problem somehow occurs again, do the same procedure described above again. I have no idea how or why these settings get "changed" or "corrupted" after everyday use, but apparently they sometimes do.
How can I do block unwanted email from my gmail account?
Since email is not controlled by a specific company, it is impossible to not receive emails from someone, similar to a phone call. However, gmail offers some very nice filtering features that will let you decide what you want to do with that email after it arrives in your mailbox, just like you can block a phone number on your phone. If you go to Settings, then the Filters and Blocked Address tab, you can set up filters to automate processing of certain emails that correspond to the rules that you selected.