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Does anybody else get emails advertising these services/products
I haven’t got a clue where they have come from, but they are appearing in my, what I like to call, respected email address. I say respected, because I only use this email address for close friends and work, whereas if I register for something online I would use an alternative email address.
Anyway, I am now getting 5 or 6 emails a day from a Canadian pharmacy offering me treatment for penis enlargement, viagra, and other products. The weird thing is, they don’t even appear to be addressed to me as the email addresses they are meant for have no resemblences to my email address – so god knows how they are arriving in my inbox.
Does anyone have a similar problem (regarding junk mail not penis enlargement lol) and does anyone know how I stop these emails as there is no ‘unsubscribe’ link.
A confused, and embarassed, Mke
It wouldn’t be a real e-mail account if you didn’t get any viagra adverts through it Mike! Part an parcel of it these days. People seem to think that I’d want penis enlargement AND a fake Rolex; they must have me down as a right insecure bugger!
If you’re getting all these e-mails from the one company, and hence the one sender, most e-mail accounts have a ‘blacklist’ function, whereby your system automatically blocks/deletes/annihilates any incoming mail from that address. I don’t use any of the popular e-mail hosts so I can’t help you any further, but if your host is worth its’ salt there should such an option available.
They’re horrible aren’t they?! I get about 5 or more a day on like you call my ‘respected’ e-mail address. Loads from so called ‘banks’ asking for my details… yeah right!
I never give my e-mail out to any companies etc as use a separate one for that and when buy things from internet, so don’t know how they come through. It’s dead annoying and just plain rude!Thanks Friggo and KS,
Oh well, I can sleep at night at least knowing I am not being specifically targeted – I was starting to wonder if I had walked home from the pub with my trousers down a few nights ago
KS, have you had those emails to say that someone has died in Nigeria or somewhere but you have been selected to receive their wealth
. All they want from you is your full name, the name that appears on your birth certificate, your DOB, you address, your employment, you bank details, your shoe size and your favourite meal The sad thing is, I used to work for a large credit card company, and a lot of people do get caught out by these scams – it was so sad.
Mike
never ever click the button on these emails that says ‘unsubscribe’ or the like – all you will be doing then is confirming your email address to these spammers who use various means to spray their rubbish around
filter them out or just delete them. if the problem becomes completely un-manageable you may end up having to get a different email address but filters and the delete button should work for most people
I get them too….4/5 a day sometimes , i dont even open them , i delete them straight away…
Cheers for the advice Simon.
It’s certainly not unmanageable, just annoying. But I guess by the sound of it I’ve been quite lucky to avoid such crap for so long. I will try and block the sender, failing that, I will just delete without opening.
Cheers,
Mike
Mike, Count yourself lucky, I get them asking if I want breast enlargement. Thinking about joining a gym now…..
Although a pair of bristols might come in handy when I’m bored Presumably I’ve got a good spam filter set up on my emails as I’ve never had any breast/penis enlargement invitations! D’oh!
I do get random ones from people I’ve never heard of saying "hi" in the subject box, so I delete them without opening them.Presumably I’ve got a good spam filter set up on my emails as I’ve never had any breast/penis enlargement invitations! D’oh!
I do get random ones from people I’ve never heard of saying "hi" in the subject box, so I delete them without opening them.Wow, can you forward those ones to me please
. No one ever says ‘Hi’ to me in the subject box – all I get is "It only costs $300 to get a bigger penis"$300 for a bigger penis – to hell with that, I’d rather put the money on a horse, and believe me, if it wins I will be excited enough thank you
Mike
Wow, can you forward those ones to me please
. No one ever says ‘Hi’ to me in the subject box – all I get is "It only costs $300 to get a bigger penis"Wow, you got that one too? I had a charming man by the name of Jesus Warren (:lol:) proposition me with the self same just this lunchtime!
It’s a small world, eh?
Sh*t ! – does that mean I WON’T be receiving any enlargement pills from the company I ordered them from last week?
Will they send back my postal order?
Damn, this means I’ll have to use some of my low-interest £1000 internet loan from that nice Nigerian online bank when it arrives to pay for a kosher dollop of enlargement pills.
Wait till I tell the missus. (Mind you, she says why can’t I be content with my 15 inches like other men? )
Not necessarily Mansun. Some just have a program which sends e-mails to a mail provider going through all the surnames. e.g. will start by sending one to aardvark.bt.co,uk and will trawl through the alphabet to zybigny.co.uk (or yahoo.com, pipex.com or zoom.co.uk or whatever).
No one on The Racing Forum has ever been on a porn site!I’ve been offline since Friday thanks to a fault at the BT exchange – have just checked my mail and there were 91 of the blessed things – it’s enough to give a chap an inferiority complex.
A lot of the e-mail addresses these spammers use are farmed from the "round robin" joke e-mails that get circulated. By the time they have been forwarded on several times there is a nice list of e-mail addresses sitting in the mail.
I use Outlook and using the spam filter it does send 97% of them straight to the junk folder. However the filter does send the occasional genuine mail to teh junk folder as well, so I always have a quick scan through the junk folder before emptying it.
another common mistake people make with emails is being far too casual in both the forwarding of emails – do you really need to forward it ? – and the very poor security practice of not removing individual email addresses from the trailing emails – this just passes on people’s email addresses to whoever gets a copy of the email
similarly when sending an email to a few friends, do you put all their addresses in the To and Cc field – so that they can all see every other recipient’s emails address or do you use Bcc so that they see no other email addresses ?
the above is so boring i shall open a bottle of wine
Mansun says…
is like saying no James Blunt fan is a twat!
What’s one of those?
Well, they are people who’s ears were very, very evil in a previous life. As a result, their current hosts have been programmed with an innate desire to torture these particular orifices by submerging them in dreary, whiny pap, sung by a tosser ex-serviceman who sounds like he’s still being ridden by the Sergeant Major like some tu’penny whore.
But if you’re talking about a twat, I have no idea.
Although a pair of bristols might come in handy when I’m bored 
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