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Email Spam Question #2
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02/17/25 07:45 PM
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Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 3,869
DCmac
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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.
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Re: Email Spam Question #2
[Re: DCmac]
#15334749
02/17/25 07:49 PM
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Joined: May 2019
Posts: 9,157
avid_basser
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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.
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Re: Email Spam Question #2
[Re: DCmac]
#15334750
02/17/25 07:50 PM
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Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 15,670
BassFever
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Nope, none of them. I'm beginning to wonder if even the TFF sells our data?
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Re: Email Spam Question #2
[Re: DCmac]
#15334856
02/17/25 10:01 PM
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Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 28,675
T Bird
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TFF Guru
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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]](https://texasfishingforum.com/forums/pics/userpics/2021/01/full-47849-80883-111.jpg) USAF "Thunderbirds" Alumni 1985-1989
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Re: Email Spam Question #2
[Re: DCmac]
#15334860
02/17/25 10:07 PM
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Joined: Jun 2020
Posts: 15,757
grandbassslayer
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I have yahoo mail and get virtually zero spam- Iโve had this same email address for 20 years- what site you fellas visiting?๐ค๐
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Re: Email Spam Question #2
[Re: grandbassslayer]
#15334866
02/17/25 10:20 PM
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Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 28,675
T Bird
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I have yahoo mail and get virtually zero spam- Iโve had this same email address for 20 years- what site you fellas visiting?๐ค๐ The "Velvet Taco" seems to be trending these days on the TFF. Google it and check it out. 
Okie by birth, Texan by choice. ![[Linked Image]](https://texasfishingforum.com/forums/pics/userpics/2021/01/full-47849-80883-111.jpg) USAF "Thunderbirds" Alumni 1985-1989
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Re: Email Spam Question #2
[Re: T Bird]
#15334894
02/17/25 10:54 PM
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Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 15,670
BassFever
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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.
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Re: Email Spam Question #2
[Re: T Bird]
#15334898
02/17/25 11:02 PM
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Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 23,649
Hard Rain
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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.
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Re: Email Spam Question #2
[Re: DCmac]
#15335314
02/18/25 03:24 PM
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Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 14,732
Stump jumper
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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
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Re: Email Spam Question #2
[Re: DCmac]
#15335318
02/18/25 03:29 PM
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Joined: Apr 2009
Posts: 12,030
spazm09
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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.
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Re: Email Spam Question #2
[Re: BassFever]
#15335342
02/18/25 03:56 PM
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Joined: Feb 2018
Posts: 17,117
Sawhorse
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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 donโt know how they select people to target. Mine all involve some form of pornography, and clearly Iโve never visited any sites like that.
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Re: Email Spam Question #2
[Re: DCmac]
#15335616
02/18/25 08:02 PM
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Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 5,637
bassfishinglawyer
TFF Celebrity
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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.
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Re: Email Spam Question #2
[Re: DCmac]
#15335727
02/18/25 10:28 PM
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Joined: May 2014
Posts: 5,807
PondFish
TFF Celebrity
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TFF Celebrity
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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
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