texasfishingforum.com logo
Main Menu
Advertisement
Affiliates
Advertisement
Newest Members
Bestwayrv, MWS76087, edjones, Muser282, BNICK
119568 Registered Users
Top Posters(All Time)
TexDawg 124,214
hopalong 121,182
Bigbob_FTW 103,693
Bob Davis 94,604
Pilothawk 83,898
Mark Perry 74,751
JDavis7873ฎ 67,416
Forum Statistics
Forums59
Topics1,055,684
Posts14,256,674
Members144,568
Most Online39,925
Dec 30th, 2023
Print Thread
Email Spam Question #2 #15334747 02/17/25 07:45 PM
Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 3,869
D
DCmac Offline OP
TFF Team Angler
OP Offline
TFF Team Angler
D
Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 3,869
All these X XX XXX &c spam emails I keep getting... I've given up trying to block them, just do a daily delete all. No, I do NOT waste time opening any of them. (As opposed to the time I waste opening posts here!)

Probably rhetorical question out of semi-idle curiosity (but I'm NOT curious enough to find out for myself): Are any of them legitimate emails?

You can't not see the titles opening the spam folder and at least half of them claim to be local girls, many claim to be just down the street girls - correction, should probably say women. I know, at least by face, everyone living within a couple of miles of us (we be rural farm & ranch land so our neighborhood isn't very big people-wise, and most of us are in our 50s or older (our stretch of road hasn't been on the school bus route for 15 maybe 20 years)), and believer me there's only couple that maybe I'd want to get together with if I was single and young enough.


Fishing, a man knows a serenity of soul and peace of mind that he finds in doing nothing else, and it makes no difference whether or not he catches anything. The mind of a true fisherman is not on petty subjects.
Re: Email Spam Question #2 [Re: DCmac] #15334749 02/17/25 07:49 PM
Joined: May 2019
Posts: 9,157
A
avid_basser Offline
TFF Celebrity
Offline
TFF Celebrity
A
Joined: May 2019
Posts: 9,157
If you hadn't realized, the more you click "unsubscribe" the more you get. They seem to validate your email via "open email" report. You're hosed then. Just delete or report them so they can be blocked.

Re: Email Spam Question #2 [Re: DCmac] #15334750 02/17/25 07:50 PM
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 15,670
B
BassFever Offline
TFF Guru
Offline
TFF Guru
B
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 15,670
Nope, none of them. I'm beginning to wonder if even the TFF sells our data?

Re: Email Spam Question #2 [Re: DCmac] #15334856 02/17/25 10:01 PM
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 28,675
T Bird Online Content
TFF Guru
Online Content
TFF Guru
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 28,675
I started using Block Sender feature on Yahoo. Seems to be working based on reduced volume I'm seeing.


Okie by birth, Texan by choice.
[Linked Image]
USAF "Thunderbirds" Alumni 1985-1989




Re: Email Spam Question #2 [Re: DCmac] #15334860 02/17/25 10:07 PM
Joined: Jun 2020
Posts: 15,757
G
grandbassslayer Online Happy
TFF Guru
Online Happy
TFF Guru
G
Joined: Jun 2020
Posts: 15,757
I have yahoo mail and get virtually zero spam- Iโ€™ve had this same email address for 20 years- what site you fellas visiting?๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ˜†

Re: Email Spam Question #2 [Re: grandbassslayer] #15334866 02/17/25 10:20 PM
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 28,675
T Bird Online Content
TFF Guru
Online Content
TFF Guru
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 28,675
Originally Posted by grandbassslayer
I have yahoo mail and get virtually zero spam- Iโ€™ve had this same email address for 20 years- what site you fellas visiting?๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ˜†


The "Velvet Taco" seems to be trending these days on the TFF. Google it and check it out. roflmao


Okie by birth, Texan by choice.
[Linked Image]
USAF "Thunderbirds" Alumni 1985-1989




Re: Email Spam Question #2 [Re: T Bird] #15334894 02/17/25 10:54 PM
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 15,670
B
BassFever Offline
TFF Guru
Offline
TFF Guru
B
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 15,670
Originally Posted by T Bird
I started using Block Sender feature on Yahoo. Seems to be working based on reduced volume I'm seeing.



Been using this for a few months. It helped for a minute but they are back again. Lot's of mine are from some cooking/recipe website I don't remember viewing.

Re: Email Spam Question #2 [Re: T Bird] #15334898 02/17/25 11:02 PM
Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 23,649
Hard Rain Online Happy
TFF Guru
Online Happy
TFF Guru
Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 23,649
Originally Posted by T Bird
I started using Block Sender feature on Yahoo. Seems to be working based on reduced volume I'm seeing.


The Yahoo app is okay but you can actually use filters on a PC with Yahoo mail and filter by several means and that does work and works very good.

Re: Email Spam Question #2 [Re: DCmac] #15335314 02/18/25 03:24 PM
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 14,732
S
Stump jumper Online Content
TFF Guru
Online Content
TFF Guru
S
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 14,732
No spam lately but marketing emails are appearing again. Yesterday I got a VM from a lady saying to call her right away so she could help with my back taxes. I don't have any unpaid taxes and never have. First 1 in several weeks. At 1 time I was getting 2 or 3 per week. They started coming through on private numbers but I blocked the last 1.


2200 Bay Champ/200 Mercury Optimax
2017 Tundra TSS 4x4 Crewmax 5.7L
Re: Email Spam Question #2 [Re: DCmac] #15335318 02/18/25 03:29 PM
Joined: Apr 2009
Posts: 12,030
S
spazm09 Online Content
TFF Guru
Online Content
TFF Guru
S
Joined: Apr 2009
Posts: 12,030
email is quickly becoming unusable. all the various email providers are also now capping email storage and charging you for it. one-drive can suck my leftover nutmeg.


[Linked Image] [Linked Image]
Re: Email Spam Question #2 [Re: BassFever] #15335342 02/18/25 03:56 PM
Joined: Feb 2018
Posts: 17,117
S
Sawhorse Offline
TFF Guru
Offline
TFF Guru
S
Joined: Feb 2018
Posts: 17,117
Originally Posted by BassFever
Originally Posted by T Bird
I started using Block Sender feature on Yahoo. Seems to be working based on reduced volume I'm seeing.



Lot's of mine are from some cooking/recipe website I don't remember viewing.

Yeah I donโ€™t know how they select people to target. Mine all involve some form of pornography, and clearly Iโ€™ve never visited any sites like that.

Re: Email Spam Question #2 [Re: DCmac] #15335616 02/18/25 08:02 PM
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 5,637
bassfishinglawyer Online Content
TFF Celebrity
Online Content
TFF Celebrity
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 5,637
I've bought thousands of things through paypal, amazon, etc. in the last couple of weeks according to my emails. Just keep reporting them as phishing emails but they keep coming.

Re: Email Spam Question #2 [Re: DCmac] #15335727 02/18/25 10:28 PM
Joined: May 2014
Posts: 5,807
P
PondFish Online Content
TFF Celebrity
Online Content
TFF Celebrity
P
Joined: May 2014
Posts: 5,807
I got an e-mail from 'Grace' yesterday letting me know that the IRS wanted to send me $2400.00.
All I had to do was reply then send all my banking info and the check would either be mailed to me or direct deposited within 2 days

Previous Thread
Index
Next Thread

© 1998-2022 OUTDOOR SITES NETWORK all rights reserved USA and Worldwide
Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.7.3