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Does anyone know how to stop junk emails coming to hotmail?

About 2 months ago a friend of mine gave my email address to some dodgy dating website as a joke.  From then on I have been plagued by junk emails from lots of strange people.  When I say strange, I mean the real deal. I don't know where they get these folks from.

I have sent countless emails complaining, but they do no good.  Some of them do come to my Junk email bit, but because they are from different addresses , the filter doesn't catch them.

There is one email in particular from some dodgy looking Indian guy, he is grinning in the pic and offering things I just ain't interested in  :D.  I sent the guy an email telling him to beat it. That encouraged him more.  Perhaps if it was his sister, I may be interested. But not him  :D

Is there a way to block them?   .  They are not from the same address, they are coming from peoples actual email address.  I cant contact the dating site because I am not registered and my friend doesn't know his access code. My friend and his girlfriend find this highly amusing.   

Do I need to change my email address?

Just delete them as you get them,  I get tons of jink mail from all sorts of sites if I don't recognize the e-mail address or the content I just delete them.  I also report them as junk sometimes this stops them but doesn't always stop them.

TBH I don't really bother that much, it could be worse if you open them and there is some sort of dodgy attachment.

You think a dating site is bad, my mate who was lodging with me filled out an "I am not man enough " questionarre for pzefer.
 
All I get now is Viagra and penis extension junk??

mind you, come to think of it.......

A lot of the time clicking the unsubscribe link or replying to the email results in even more because they then know that your email is active and being used.

Do you use Microsoft Outlook or an online email account? If you are using Outlook then you could try one of a number of anti-spam programs. I don't use outlook so don't know which is best, but I'm sure other people could help!

lol  "I am not man enough"  .   But this site isn't your regular dating site  ;).  That is my main concern

No mate, I use hotmail   

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I am trying, but i think my pump is bust?

All I reckon you can do is to block addresses/add to junk folder. I found hotmail ones were atrocious for spam so use GMail instead and can't recommend it highly enough. I very rarely get any junk emails in my inbox. The spam filter is excellent!

which bit Dewi ..... the  "not a regular dating site"?      well it caters for swingers and all that sort of thing. 

 When my friends told me it was for swingers, I thought to myself  " excellent, I like swings" thinking it was the swings in the park they were referring to.

The thought of my details being on some site makes me afraid.  I cannot show reaction though, all I can do is plot my revenge against the culprit responsible.

hmmmmmmmmm   ;goodvevil;

lol.   

i get all the viagra stuff too, i use outlook express to check my email including hotmail and the filter is good.
Though i still look in the junk mail folder anyway :D

Anyone rskon Sarks signed hoimself up to these mailing lists "accidentally"??  Its this my mate, its like when you have srewed up or your looking for advice but don't want to say or ask you always say my mate or I know someone blah blah blah .................

Sark youc an come clean with all of us we won't slag you because you signed upto some dirty site looking for a bit of action, we're your friends  ;goodvevil;  :D

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YEA GOOD ONE    ...


No I have nothing to confess.  Honestly. 


I have emailed Hotmail and explained to them.  They will sort me out hopefully

They going to send you a mail order bride?

Ohhh no offence if anyone has an inflatable bride or a new import!  :D

 rotflmfao nice one...haven't heard that excuse in a long while

You could always get a proper email address and domain name.

I bought www.wildaboutpoker.co.uk and use richie@wildaboutpoker.co.uk

I used letsgetpersonal.co.uk and they have been very good. I get no spam what so ever.

Hotmail, AOL, Yahoo etc are notoriously bad for spam.

 

Very funny      It is true.    I have twisted friends who like playing practical jokes. This is a perfect example of their jokes.



My only vices are gambling, wine gums and two day old curry sandwiches

Sark

If you got to options in hotmail - you can set the junk mail filter at the highest level - that way ONLY people in your address book or on your "safe list" will go straight to your inbox.

It just means checking your junk mail every now and then to make sure no-one you know has gone in there by accident.  It also means that you must remember to check your jumk mail also every time you give your email addy out to someone new.

Hope this helps.
Trace
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Surely this is SPAM in itself!!!!!!? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

I'd advise that next time you make sure you give your "friend" a different email address to the one you use for the regular email.

Then all your "dating" emails go to the one address leaving your regular address junk email free :)up

So how many "dates" did you end up with ???

you will gert loads of spam now due to the fact that bots trool forums for email addresses

Thanks, Trace and Matt.

I get about two or three offers each day.  But trust me, these are offers no sane person would want.  I am not sure if it is just my email address that is on the site  or actually my full details.  That is the worrying thing about it.  I asked my mate and he said " we were drunk, whats the big deal ".  I actually only found out I was on this site a few days ago while playing snooker. I was asking advice about all the spam I was getting and everyone started laughing. I knew at that point I had been set up.  He cant remember the access code for the site.

I was actually joined from my laptop. I left my laptop overnight at someones house because they needed to use WORD for a report.  I now have passwords protecting everything I do as a precaution. I have always been a "control freak" about giving out any details online, in street surveys or even to people I meet. That is the reason my friends are amused that I am on such a site. I prefer to be anonymous.   

So how do you explain the picture of you naked that appears on your "advert"?

Is this why your avatar on blonde has now changed to a penguin - so that people on your swinging site dont see you on here to reveal what you really get upto behind closed doors?

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No matt.  I just wanted a change.  But now that you say it, it is probably just as well my pic has changed.  Naked...  no, I would know about that. I know every pic that has ever been taken off me. There aren't any naked ones amongst them.  :D

Its ok squire, you dont have to hide anything - its alright to admit it!! Just sing along with me.

"I'm the king of the swingers............"

 ;D

lol

I am the most unlikely candidate for a swinger, trust me...lol.   I need to keep a squeaky clean image for the time when Pokerstars come along in a few years time with  " the offer ".  It pains me to know I am on a dodgy site.  I am going to play hardball with the guy concerned and use whatever means necessary to get the access codes. I am seeing him at a wedding this afternoon, so after it, I will get the codes. At least then I can delete myself

I finally managed to get the access codes to the dodgy site. My friend relented when the topic of an incident between himself and a office secretary was used in conjunction with " your wife doesn't have to find out ".  :D 

I have taken off all my details. Some of them were quite amusing actually due to the bizarre nature of some of my hobbies that they had listed for me.  My real name wasn't actually mentioned, just my email address.  The site said they will take off all my details and delete my full profile within 24 hours...  thank god. 

No, it's because he keeps getting p-p-p-p-picked up.

i had somehow clicked on something with Bt to stop spam. trouble is i recently realsied that it was intercepting genuine emails as well. I found I had 796 unread emails and that was for one month and no idea how many in the past had been deleted.
Amazed at the number of them from banks I have never dealt with asking me to confirm my details. i guess for every ten thousand they email there is one  ;fish; that will enter their details.

I do the domain name thing. Register a domain name for a couple of quid then you can set all emails sent to anythinghere@thedomainname.com to be forwarded to another address. Then when you sign up somewhere you can use different email addresses to identify where the emails are coming from ie, ebay@thedomainname.com, paypal@thedomainname.com, itwasmymatethatsignedmeuptotheswingersitehonest@thedomainname.com.

Richie, you really ought to delete your e-Mail addy from this thread. Iron is right - you will be deluged by spammy e-mails if you leave it here.