I read the post here in complaints and in the general discussion board about e-gold spam. I was hoping some one would post who to contact about unsolicited spam. One poster listed reporting to the IP. I am extremely computer illiterate. Can someone post details. I have gotten 4 porn spams this afternoon, 1 while I was here reading posts.

I am not an old prude, well at least not a prude, but I am just BORED with SMUT. Any suggestions?

Whatever you do don't ask to be taken off thier list, I tried that and I swear the smut tripled in a matter of days.

yep i agree

its almost become a fact of internet life you will be spammed

Yep.......once they find out they have a "live" e-mail address, the stuff will start rolling in

I've found on a couple of occasions when I've tried to unsub that I get a failed delivery message to the email address so it seem it didn't exist.

Being a fellow computer illiterate how can you track down where the mails are coming from and do something about them?

Cheers,

Curly

Yeah, I did learn quick not to try to unscribe, I use hotmail and it has a limit of - I think - 250 individual emails you can block and 250 - what do you call it servers? - and this past weekend I had to go thru and take several off the list as I had all the block lists full. Of course I did that because I had several that I needed to block that day and now I have blocked about 6 more today!

And this was all in a matter of 2 and 1/2 years.

Very easy -- sign up for free at www.spamcop.net and keep at it -- it will take a while, but my spam has dropped dramatically. I report the stuff every day. You don't need any special knowledge except how to read directions for the different email programs (hotmail, yahoo, AOL, outlook, etc.)

Unfortunately, internet spam is here to stay, and there isn't much any of us can do about it, but what really gets me is the porn spam. I don't know if there is any good way to stop what you are getting. It is too bad that there isn't some way to stop the advertisements that we don't want, but any thing that I think of just isn't viable, and I just hate the idea that someone besides me deciding what I get and what I don't want to get. I just wish that these companies would all get together and decide who gets what ads. I mean, I don't mind the occasional ad for the Pasta Pot, but 5 to 8 of the same ads in one day is just a little too much.

here's a way to stop it... get a hotmail account then go to www.dot.tk and register another .tk domain. When you give out your email always make a different one at a .tk domain that redirects to your original. That way if you get lots of spam you can just delete the forwarding link and voila no more spam.

Totally agree .

I don't even bother to unsub as they then know they have a good addy . I just report them to Spam Cop and they dig out the info needed and report the SPAMMER right from the spam cop web site .

Ooh and another handy free tool is http://www.mailwasher.net

Thanks, I will check out the spamcop site. I am just really bored with all this trash email. I have a profound aversion to all this crap in my inbox that I haven't specifically requested!!!


Sorry the #1 ###### took over again!