other people's emails

[lakota]

Hello. I have a problem that I hope someone can help me with. Everytime I
open my email I have 3-10 emails in my box that are addressed to other people
in my town. We have a small town and everyone's internet service is through
our local telephone company so I know all of the people who's emails are
coming to me. They are all coming from a site called geocities and they are
for info to buy drugs in Canada to VERY sexually explict info. Can anyone
tell me how to stop them and how they get to my box? Thank you in advance.
(Oh, I run spyware,adware and virus protection with a firewall. Everything
looks okay. )

 

[mac]

Hello. I have a problem that I hope someone can help me with. Everytime I
open my email I have 3-10 emails in my box that are addressed to other
people
in my town. We have a small town and everyone's internet service is
through
our local telephone company so I know all of the people who's emails are
coming to me. They are all coming from a site called geocities and they
are
for info to buy drugs in Canada to VERY sexually explict info. Can anyone
tell me how to stop them and how they get to my box? Thank you in advance.
(Oh, I run spyware,adware and virus protection with a firewall. Everything
looks okay. )

Delete them and forget about them, this is exactly how Spammers operate, you
will be on the bcc list of the mail that goes to your neighbour (correct
spelling).

 

[Guest]

Hello. I have a problem that I hope someone can help me with. Everytime I
open my email I have 3-10 emails in my box that are addressed to other
people
in my town. We have a small town and everyone's internet service is
through
our local telephone company so I know all of the people who's emails are
coming to me. They are all coming from a site called geocities and they
are
for info to buy drugs in Canada to VERY sexually explict info. Can anyone
tell me how to stop them and how they get to my box? Thank you in advance.
(Oh, I run spyware,adware and virus protection with a firewall. Everything
looks okay. )

If you know how to check all headers, look at the Bcc: line. If your
address
appears there and their address appears on either the To: line or the Cc:
line, they are already getting copies and the Bcc: line sends you a copy as
well. If so, either just delete your copy, or if the sender uses the same
return address more than once (many spammers don't) you can open the
message, then click on Message, then Create Rule From Message, then
the box before Delete it, then OK. This should delete any more such
message that arrive later, but not any of those you have already
downloaded.

If the problem is so bad you want to delete all the mail you receive
from Geocities, do the same but click on the return address when
it shows up in the rule and add just the part of the address after
@.

 

[lakota]

Thanks to you both.This helps. It is really becoming a problem since a lot of
them contain vulgar sexual motivated language and there are children in my
home. Is there somewhere that this can be reported?

 

[mac]

Thanks to you both.This helps. It is really becoming a problem since a lot
of
them contain vulgar sexual motivated language and there are children in my
home. Is there somewhere that this can be reported?

Sadly, no!

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Welcome to the wonderful world of spam!
Ask your provider to set up server level spam filtering,
or change to a different ISP who has better spam filtering.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Any spam that manages to break through my filters gets forwarded
to SpamCop (http://spamcop.net), and they find the responsible ISP
and send a complaint. Although this may give me personal satisfaction,
it does little in the way of stopping or slowing down the spam onslaught.