Avoiding incoming spam

[Fastpedeller]

Every day I receive several notes saying my icloud is full (I've never used it!), payments can't be made and other such rubbish.
I'm reluctant to open any of these notes in the hope I can 'unsubscribe' - Does anyone know how I can eliminate them instead of deleting them daily?
First-World problem, I know

[Road2Ruin]

How to do it depends on the email service you are using. Some servers have built in spam prevention, others you can set your own rules. None of them are 100% effective, though, not unless your are happy to lose emails you do want, anyway.

Which email service do you use? Gmail, Hotmail yahoo, or other.

[dundarach]

Gave up on apple ages ago, however it sounds to me like either phone backups or photos are filling up your cloud.

Log on to icloud and tell it to stop emailing you!

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4141406?sortB...

[Actual]

Use Rules to send stuff to your junk folder where you can quickly review and delete.

If you don't use iCloud then make a Rule for any email containing the text "iCloud"

If a lot of your junk comes from a certain part of the world then make a Rule for any email containing the last few letters of the domain name.

You can still review your Junk folder and make adjustments if necessary and nothing is actually lost.

[Fastpedeller]

Fastpedeller said:

Every day I receive several notes saying my icloud is full (I've never used it!), payments can't be made and other such rubbish.
I'm reluctant to open any of these notes in the hope I can 'unsubscribe' - Does anyone know how I can eliminate them instead of deleting them daily?
First-World problem, I know

To clarify they go into my spam folder - I just have to empty it every few hours.
The mail system is Microsoft Mail (Win 10)

[littleredrooster]

dundarach said:

Gave up on apple ages ago, however it sounds to me like either phone backups or photos are filling up your cloud.

Log on to icloud and tell it to stop emailing you!

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4141406?sortB...

The point is that they're not real - they're phishing emails trying to extract money for a non-existent 'problem'. My Spam folder in GMail gets about 2-3 per day. They don't originate from Apple.

[NDA]

Fastpedeller said:

To clarify they go into my spam folder - I just have to empty it every few hours.

Same here - I get between 40 and 80 a day.... gambling, iCloud storage, fake Amazon etc. As they are all (99.9%) caught by the email filter and go into the spam folder, I try not to be too irritated. I'd love to tell them all to fek off, but there's no point.

[Actual]

I have an MS 365 subscription with hosted Exchange email and I only get a 3 or 4 spam emails per week which are directed to my Junk Mail folder in Outlook.

There must be more spam which is being filtered and rejected by the server but I don't know where I can view them or know if there are false positives.

[Alorotom]

I spent a couple of weeks opening all my spam as it was received (junk and otherwise) and using the Apple automated unsubscribe prompt. It stopped the lot within a month.

Ive gone from getting anything from 50-200 spam messages daily to 2-3 per week max.

[megaphone]

I have my 'junk' mail folder set to delete messages after 30 days, set and forget.

OP who is your email with? I get loads of junk with Hotmail/outlook. My Gmail addresses get very little as it's all filtered out by their servers.

[butchstewie]

Get a Gmail account.

Frighteningly good.

[craig1912]

butchstewie said:

Get a Gmail account.

Frighteningly good.

Doesn’t stop you getting them and going to Spam though.

I’m on gmail and get four or five similar spam emails a day.

[craig1912]

Alorotom said:

I spent a couple of weeks opening all my spam as it was received (junk and otherwise) and using the Apple automated unsubscribe prompt. It stopped the lot within a month.

Ive gone from getting anything from 50-200 spam messages daily to 2-3 per week max.

How does that work then, given you aren’t subscribed to them??

[megaphone]

Also don't give out your email address to everyone that asks.

Have more than one email address, one for personal, one for banking and important stuff, one 'anonymous' for shopping and other crap. That way you can ignore the crap and if it get's too compromised you can ditch it and start another

I have 11 email addresses, all serving different tasks.

[butchstewie]

craig1912 said:

Doesn t stop you getting them and going to Spam though.

I m on gmail and get four or five similar spam emails a day.

Probably stops you seeing most of them though and you can do a lot of really smart stuff with filters.

Combine it with the quality of their spam filtering in the first place and I think unless you've made yourself really unpopular it's easy enough to get to a point where you're not seeing much unless you specifically look in your Spam folder.

Devil's always in the detail if you're using some stty POP3 service with no spam filtering and relying on Windows Mail to filter spam you'll always be on the back foot

[craig1912]

butchstewie said:

Probably stops you seeing most of them though and you can do a lot of really smart stuff with filters.

Combine it with the quality of their spam filtering in the first place and I think unless you've made yourself really unpopular it's easy enough to get to a point where you're not seeing much unless you specifically look in your Spam folder.

Devil's always in the detail if you're using some stty POP3 service with no spam filtering and relying on Windows Mail to filter spam you'll always be on the back foot

They go into the OP’s spam folder too, which is where he is seeing them. Can’t see you stopping them completely but this is what a spam folder is for. I just open it once in a while and empty it.

[butchstewie]

Missed that thanks Don't get why you'd have to empty it every few hours though? Gmail just auto-deletes after 30 days or whatever. Don't need to go in it day to day.

[captain_cynic]

Fastpedeller said:

To clarify they go into my spam folder - I just have to empty it every few hours.
The mail system is Microsoft Mail (Win 10)

Who's your email provider? That's the email client.

Spam filtering generally needs to be done upstream, at the provider level. If you've a private email address, see if you can run it through one of the big boys (Gmail, Outlook365) if for nothing else than their good spam filtering.

[captain_cynic]

megaphone said:

Also don't give out your email address to everyone that asks.

Have more than one email address, one for personal, one for banking and important stuff, one 'anonymous' for shopping and other crap. That way you can ignore the crap and if it get's too compromised you can ditch it and start another

I have 11 email addresses, all serving different tasks.

This is generally good advice.

Your personal email address is private, don't give it out to any Tom, Dick or Harry (or Moe, Larry or Curly) who asks for it.

Maybe 11 addresses is a bit much, but I maintain a separate account that I give to any website or service that I think is going to spam me, that account currently has a few 10s of thousands of unread emails as I only really check it for password resets or account verification emails.

Doubly so if you have to have a public email address (I.E. for business use). Keep this one separate from anything personal.

Edited by captain_cynic on Thursday 13th November 19:06

[zarjaz1991]

Those with Gmail, you can use variations on your address when signing up to things. You'll get the emails but you'll know who sold your data on!

Example:

Your email address is [e-mail]

You can use a + sign before the @ to make a unique email address. Emails will still come to you.

For example

[e-mail]

Scott