Why am I getting over 100 spam e mail messages per day?
I report senders and message titles as spam but they still keep appearing.E mail getting to be useless unless this spam stops. Normally I receive only 2 or 3 valid e mails per day.
Is there any way to find out who is sending email spam? Is there any way to stop them? If there is, why don’t we stop them?
54 billion spam emails every day. How would you stop that altogether?ISP’s all over the world work very hard on this problem because it costs them considerable money installing extra equipment to deal with it. Over 40% of all email traffic is spam[1]. All you see in your Inbox is the overflow. Your ISP will have already found and removed 99.9% of all the spam addressed to you before you see it. They can’t afford to have it clogging up their servers!Not easy to track down the sources as they’re full of fake ID’s and multi-country origins. I found that out when someone in Brazil sent out a batch pretending to come from me in New Zealand but were somehow injected into the Internet appearing to come from a server in the USA. Never repeated - their next batch would use a different victim account and a different foreign server to make tracing harder. The originating account is only used once because ISP’s watch their own customers for any suspicious activity and blacklist infringers.Footnotes[1] Email spam - Wikipedia
Why do random people on Instagram follow me even though I haven't posted anything?
A lot of times these people are connected to you on Facebook or have your email / phone number in their contacts. There are also plenty of bots or spam accounts that automatically follow plenty of accounts. And finally, there are a lot of business accounts out there that follow as many accounts as possible (up to 7500) to get more followers, likes, comments, and website views back. They will then unfollow the people who didn’t follow back and repeat with a fresh batch of users.
Why do random people I've never met try to connect with me on LinkedIn? What is there to gain if I accept?
There are three assumptions in this question that may answer the question itself.'Random', 'People', and 'Connect with me'Over the years I have found and reported a number of fake LinkedIn accounts. But I began to realise that many of them follow a certain pattern (the fake photos and profiles follow a certain consistent style), which leads me to suspect some of them are not random people at all. There may in fact be a group of individuals or companies that are systematically working through fake accounts.Which brings me to the second point. Some of them are not real people. When I get a suspicious looking invitation, I run the photo through either Tinyeye reverse Image Search or Google Images. Often I find that the photo was taken from another website, under a different name, as shown below:Why would anyone do this? I am not sure. But they could likely be a front for firms who want to build mailing databases using web scrapers. i.e. they are spam factories.Which leads to my last point - they may are not be after you. They may be after your connections. The moment you are connected to one of them, your connections become their second degree connections. And your second degree connections become their third degree connections. Score 5 points for their web scrapers.Conspiracy theories aside, many of the invites are quite harmless and can be dealt with with a one-click salute to the 'ignore' button. But there are enough fake accounts floating around that the world wild web sets my spidey sense tingling ever so often. Be careful out there.
I was registered to Pottermore, but I haven't gotten the email?
There seems to be a bit of confusion on this topic. I haven't gotten my e-mail either, which I'm really angry about, since I'm dead tired, but here's the info: The first e-mail is the validation e-mail. This e-mail does NOT grant you immediate access into the site yet. There are still 6 days left of the challenge and whatnot. You're supposed to get it under a few hours, but for some reason, a lot of people that used Yahoo mail are struggling with this. The 2nd e-mail is the one that you have to wait a few weeks for. This one is the one that grants you access into the site. The first million directed to the site get to be beta testers.
What if you keep receiving spam email even after unsubscribing from them a ton of times? How do you stop them?
If you are using Gmail, you can click the Spam button (looks like a stop sign with an exclamation mark on it, and it is next to your trash can icon), and then any time that person/company sends you email, it will automatically go into your spam folder for deletion. Most email software offers this functionality where you can flag an email as spam and all future email from that email address is either put directly into your spam folder or auto deleted.Peter GeishekerMake your life easier by automating your email follow-up with the Rebump Google Chrome Extension for Gmail https://www.rebump.cc
My amazon account says I haven't ordered anything?
Okay so a couple of days ago I ordered a bedset and curtains from amazon, so because I need to get them as quickly as possible I went back on to my account today and looked at my order list to track them and they weren't on it, even though I have a confirmation email of my order. Can anyone help?
Can I send a company in Canada a cold email if what I'm selling is something that is actually relevant to them and I'm not just spamming 10k random emails?
First off, I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.That said, we've had to do a lot of reading up and consulting with clients for whom we send out email blasts, and these companies in turn have also taken legal opinions. The bottom line, as we understand it, is that ANY commercial electronic message without explicit prior consent or an existing business relationship, would be considered a violation of CASL.Couple of points to note here:CASL applies not just to bulk messages but also when sent to a single account at a timeThe law applies not just to email, but also phone text and messages sent to a social media accountIn terms of workarounds, if the company you are approaching is one you have had conversations with in the past (and they haven't asked to be taken off your calling list), you might be able to argue that this is implied consent which you need to turn into express consent within the three-year grace period that ends July 1, 2017.But if it's cold email, then by CASL's definition it would be considered spam.We've taken the ultra-conservative approach with our clients. One of our clients is a dental association that reaches out to members via a monthly newsletter. Since the newsletter contains some advertising, we have gone so far as to obtain express consent from the entire membership even though an association newsletter would not normally fall afoul of CASL.In your case, I'd suggest making the initial approach by phone, seek permission to send details by email…and don't forget to record the call.
Why does my wife get dating sites emails, but I don't ?
Perhaps she's used dating sites before (or still is) or her email was gathered from some other source and is part of the mailing list used by that site... If the emails are just contact/solicitation from a site, I wouldn't be concerned (and she can block them if she desires)...if contact is from subscribers on the site, then you should worry about why she's got a profile on a dating site for people to contact her through...
Why are so many people following me on Medium that I don't know? Are they spam?
There is a popular practice, on any social media, to follow someone in the hope to be followed back. That’s how many new users hack their growth.Medium doesn’t really limit this practice (if not for the big limit of 125 new followees per day).