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Q: Need advise on Yahoo email account from computer expert, please.
When I arrived in China, I used to get less than 10 spam emails each day, no big deal.
But after two years, my email account is getting almost 200 of them on a daily basis, and it is beginning to bother me. Short of opening another email account with a different address, is it anything I can do to stop most of these spam emails from landing on my account .
And another question. I have noticed that some of those spam emails show my email address as the sender of the spam email. Does that means that they have access to my account and can send emails in my name ? I have changed passwords twice already, and the last one is pretty "complicated" alphanumerical string of 16 characters. Yet, emails with my address as sender continue to arrive. How can they do that ?
Thanks
12 years 19 weeks ago in Web & Technology - China
1. Change your password immediately.
2. Always log out once you have finished using yahoo/hotmail/gmail or any other web based mail platform.
3. Signing up to newsletters/promotions on websites. What most people dont do is read the fine print the fine print states that they can send other promotional/newsletters from 3rd party sites
4. don't post your email address on public forums. bots can scan for email addresses and use them. if you do a safe way is to write it like this joe dot citizen at hotmail dot com so the bots cannot recognize the email
hope this helps mate
Putting a false email as a return address (so the email looks like it came from you) is very easy to do and does not mean that they have access to your account. It simply means that they put your email address as both the sender and the receiver. Spammers will do this as a way to bypass weak anti-spam filters.
There really is no way to stop the influx of spam to your email box. It only takes you signing up for one bad website to cause floods of email. Because the website will sell your email address to everyone and anyone who waves some cash around.
If you use a third party email system such as Eudora, Pegasus, etc... to retrieve your email from Yahoo, it will offer you better spam filtering capabilities.
As an alternative to shutting down your Yahoo account and getting better spam filtering, you can open a GMail account and have your Yahoo mail forwarded there. Gmail will give you the ability to send and recieve email through your Yahoo account while offering you a second email account (GMail) and better spam protection.
As far as changing your password, it is always advisable to change any and all passwords about once every few months. Also, do not cycle your passwords, use a unique one every time.
Hope this helps little.
Many thanks fellows, very informative. It is appreciated !
