(To do this in several e-mail systems, see /4w7nk73y and scroll to the bottom of the article.) Turn off your e-mail’s “automatic image downloading”. – If you need to open an e-mail to make sure that it is spam, try to limit what a spammer can learn about you.
A spammer may use this information to send spam that might appeal to you. The spammer also may be able to identify your device, operating system, browser, time zone, screen size and preferred language. These graphics reside on a server run by the spammer, so every time you open a piece of spam, a graphic image is automatically downloaded to your computer and the spammer learns things about you, such as: your IP (Internet Protocol) address, which in turn can reveal your approximate location (down to the city you live in), the name of your Internet service provider and the type of Internet connection you're using (cable, phone or cellular). Spammers embed graphics in an e-mail to make it look authentic. As the spammers change their e-mails, you may need to label them as spam again. Instead, send spam to your e-mail’s spam folder, which should (eventually) help the service’s spam filter to block at least some of the junk mail. Once you block an e-mail address the spammers start using a different one. – Give up trying to block spam because it’s fruitless. – Never click anything in a spam e-mail (you could get malware or be taken to a bogus website). Labelling the e-mails as spam stopped them for only a short time.Ī: Foreign language e-mails or repeated e-mails from a stranger probably are spam. Sharon Gresham of Sarasota, Florida, says she’s begun receive e-mails in a foreign language, and trying to block them hasn’t worked.Īnn Donovan of Colorado Springs, Colorado, says she’s getting a steady stream of what appear to be scam e-mails from someone named Elene, who she thinks in not a real person.
Spam keeps changing and several readers wonder what to do about it.
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