Nigerian/Bank emails etc

Septus

I've started getting a lot of these tricksy money lending emails, and I could swear it started after letting my email be used by Norton when I got the trial.

I'm using a tiny little webmail server from the domain that my brother purchased, and with the legitimate sounding emails and the sensible language in the body of the emails, I'm not sure how I can approach blocking all this spam. Any ideas?

bowen

Septus wrote: »

I've started getting a lot of these tricksy money lending emails, and I could swear it started after letting my email be used by Norton when I got the trial.

I'm using a tiny little webmail server from the domain that my brother purchased, and with the legitimate sounding emails and the sensible language in the body of the emails, I'm not sure how I can approach blocking all this spam. Any ideas?

Sounds like your email host needs to do some filtering. Do you know if they have that set up or are willing to set that up?

saint2e

You could also use a email app like thunderbird that uses learning filters to filter things out for you.

Septus

bowen wrote: »

Septus wrote: »

I've started getting a lot of these tricksy money lending emails, and I could swear it started after letting my email be used by Norton when I got the trial.

I'm using a tiny little webmail server from the domain that my brother purchased, and with the legitimate sounding emails and the sensible language in the body of the emails, I'm not sure how I can approach blocking all this spam. Any ideas?

Sounds like your email host needs to do some filtering. Do you know if they have that set up or are willing to set that up?

I talked to my brother about that briefly and he said that there was some sort of spam filtering, but didn't think there was anything more to do.

saint2e wrote: »

You could also use a email app like thunderbird that uses learning filters to filter things out for you.

Do I just mark all the spam as spam, and it does the learning for me, or do I need to identify certain attributes?

saint2e

You just mark spam as spam and it learns from what you mark, basically. Very easy to use.

Crashtard

I'll second using thunderbird. I love it, and my spam went down drastically once it learned what I thought was spam.

bowen

I will third that option if the mail server side is unwilling or unable to do anything.

Bewildered_Ronin

BTW, spam can be reported to the FTC (spam@uce.gov) and also reported to the originating ISP by using services such as SpamCop.net (a free service). When reporting to the FTC, you must include the full header of the offending email in the message.