Stopping Spam?

[Woodsey]

My aol email used to be pretty effective at filtering out spam, but the last few months have been really bad. I always report spam when it arrives, any other tips to help reduce it?

[bobAlike]

My aol email used to be pretty effective at filtering out spam, but the last few months have been really bad. I always report spam when it arrives, any other tips to help reduce it?

Don't retrieve your emails is about the only truly effective solution.

[horseplayer]

since i have reverted my two email address (outlook were hotmail) to send onto gmail as suggested in another thread i have received no spam at all

no idea why but obviously a good thing

[wazz]

It's a painful process but get a new email (gmail), give new email to all your personal contacts, check old email from time to time to change the email address with all the (important) companies that have your email address and then only check your old email periodically.

May not be spam but I used to get tonnes and tonnes of emails from websites where I'd registered and couldn't be bothered to unregister. I managed to get rid of about 80% of the crap coming in by scrolling to the bottom of each email and unregistering my details. You might consider doing that too.

[outragous76]

you use AOL?

[Woodsey]

you use AOL?

Just their web email not their shite downloaded software to do it, don't want to change it really, want to keep the same email for life unless I absolutely have to change.

[RED-DOG]

you use AOL?

Just their web email not their shite downloaded software to do it, don't want to change it really, want to keep the same email for life unless I absolutely have to change.

I have AOL web mail too. I quite like it.

[titaniumbean]

by definition keeping one email address for ever will put you at more and more likelihood of getting spamz.


it's best to create a new 'clean' account and just set up rules on your old account to forward certain stuff onto you so that the original email box can become a  holding point for the spammy shit.

[Woodsey]

by definition keeping one email address for ever will put you at more and more likelihood of getting spamz.


it's best to create a new 'clean' account and just set up rules on your old account to forward certain stuff onto you so that the original email box can become a  holding point for the spammy shit.

Well its done pretty well for nearly 15 years, its only in the last couple of months, not gonna change it unless I have to.

[titaniumbean]

what have you done differently, signed up to in the last months?

[Woodsey]

what have you done differently, signed up to in the last months?

Not sure I'll have to have a think, but I'm getting shit loads of gaming spam for online casinos, some random invitations to chat to Russian birds online   , also loads of fake bank emails trying to snaffle my log in info from various banks.

[Jon MW]

I've never used AOL but most email clients have filters you can set up yourself to trap spam. If AOL lets you set up your own rules to send stuff straight to a spam folder then that should cover it if most of them are such a narrow range of types of spam.