Make sure your Spam Guard is turned on. You do this by clicking on options while you are logged in your email. Then click on Spam Protection. It will tell you if Spam Guard is turned on or not. Whenever you receive a Spam or vulgar message, just click on the spam button. You can also do this without opening the message by checking the box to the left of the subject line and clicking. After awhile you won't get anymore or a lot less spam. One thing you must not do is click on a link that say something like "remove me from the database or mailing list as this will confirm to the spammer your email address is valid. Don't just delete the spam, report it!
Another way to combat Spam is to open another email address and use it to open a new account at a forum site or anywhere else you are required to furnish an email address except where you are expecting emails such as Yahoo, MSN or Lycos groups. If you are using Firefox as a browser, they have a nifty add-on called "Temporary Inbox. It has a toolbar and one of the buttons is Random Email. It will generate a temporary inbox that is valid for an hour or two! It also has a button to check your email. When you want to join a forum and where they require a valid email, you click on random email, it will generate an email address. You just right click to insert the temporary email. Here is an actual sample [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Once you have filled out the forum's form and they ask you to check your email for the validation code, you just click on the check button and then the validation link! --- On Mon, 7/7/08, larisanageli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: larisanageli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Y!M] Spam and vulgar messages To: [email protected] Date: Monday, July 7, 2008, 5:31 PM I continually get vulgar requests coming into my mail. Most times the email used doesn't match my name exactly such as my email is larisanageli@ yahoo.com but it will be addressed to larisagraig@ yahoo.com. The messages in the subject line will be ones such as "come watch me shower", "I just bought sex toys, watch me use them at....". I am embarrassed by them and now I am starting to become irritated and angry over them. They don't come from the same persons. Does anyone know if I inadvertly invited such messages and if there is any way, except to change my address, to get them to leave me alone?
