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I am currently getting 15-20 emails per day from individual email addresses
about low interest loans. Names and email addresses are different in every
email but the email are exactly the same!! Is there a way to stop this crap??
I run Ad-Aware and Spybot everyday ....
XP Home SP2
OE
Thanks .......
 
Van said:
I am currently getting 15-20 emails per day from individual email addresses
about low interest loans. Names and email addresses are different in every
email but the email are exactly the same!! Is there a way to stop this crap??
I run Ad-Aware and Spybot everyday ....
XP Home SP2
OE
Thanks .......
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A. In OE, go to Tools > Message Rules > Mail
B. Click "New" to create a new mail message rule.
You'll want to name this rule something like "Message Body" when finished
C. In the panel that opens, do this:
1. Conditions: Check "When the message contains specific words"
2. Actions: Check "Delete it"
3. Actions: Scroll down in the same box and check "Stop processing more rules"
4. Descriptions: Click on the underlined blue text "contains specific words"
This will take you to another panel where you can key in
the common denominator words found in the message
body for the low-interest loans. They'll usually include
words such as "low" or "interest" or "payments" or all of them.
5. Type a specific word you want OE to detect. In example, "interest". Click Add button.
Then type "payment" and click Add button. Do this until you've entered as many words
as you want, then click Okay. This will take you back to the master rule panel.
D. In the Name of the rule box, type in "Message body" and click OK.

You've just created your first rule. You can repeat the same process for other rules such
"From Line" (example: "@spammer.net") and "Subject Line" (example: "investor" or "stock"
or "replica") where you specify words or phrases that you might find in other spam.

Once you've created a rule, you can revisit it to add more specific words and phrases later. One
popular series of spam is about replica watches. In the "Message body" rule, I also added the
words "replica", "watch", "time-piece" and "rolex".

PS, I'd love to replace C2 and C3 above by checking "Do not download from server" but that
option doesn't work on my POP3 mail server for some reason. Wish it did. Then it wouldn't junk
up my Deleted Items folder.

Hope this makes sense. Good luck.
 
Thank You Joe .........




Uncle Joe said:
A. In OE, go to Tools > Message Rules > Mail
B. Click "New" to create a new mail message rule.
You'll want to name this rule something like "Message Body" when finished
C. In the panel that opens, do this:
1. Conditions: Check "When the message contains specific words"
2. Actions: Check "Delete it"
3. Actions: Scroll down in the same box and check "Stop processing more rules"
4. Descriptions: Click on the underlined blue text "contains specific words"
This will take you to another panel where you can key in
the common denominator words found in the message
body for the low-interest loans. They'll usually include
words such as "low" or "interest" or "payments" or all of them.
5. Type a specific word you want OE to detect. In example, "interest". Click Add button.
Then type "payment" and click Add button. Do this until you've entered as many words
as you want, then click Okay. This will take you back to the master rule panel.
D. In the Name of the rule box, type in "Message body" and click OK.

You've just created your first rule. You can repeat the same process for other rules such
"From Line" (example: "@spammer.net") and "Subject Line" (example: "investor" or "stock"
or "replica") where you specify words or phrases that you might find in other spam.

Once you've created a rule, you can revisit it to add more specific words and phrases later. One
popular series of spam is about replica watches. In the "Message body" rule, I also added the
words "replica", "watch", "time-piece" and "rolex".

PS, I'd love to replace C2 and C3 above by checking "Do not download from server" but that
option doesn't work on my POP3 mail server for some reason. Wish it did. Then it wouldn't junk
up my Deleted Items folder.

Hope this makes sense. Good luck.
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Van said:
I am currently getting 15-20 emails per day from individual email addresses
about low interest loans. Names and email addresses are different in every
email but the email are exactly the same!! Is there a way to stop this
crap??
I run Ad-Aware and Spybot everyday ....
XP Home SP2
OE
Thanks .......
Click to expand...


Ad-Aware and Spybot are NOT anti-spam products. Get an anti-spam product.
Spampal and all its plug-ins are free.
 
Van said:
I am currently getting 15-20 emails per day from individual email addresses
about low interest loans. Names and email addresses are different in every
email but the email are exactly the same!! Is there a way to stop this crap??
I run Ad-Aware and Spybot everyday ....
XP Home SP2
OE
Thanks .......
Click to expand...


While it's not possible to completely eliminate spam (unsolicited
commercial email), there are some precautions and steps you can take to
minimize it's impact:

1) Never, ever post your real email address to publicly accessible
forums or newsgroups, such as this one. For years now, spammers have
been using software utilities to scan such places to harvest email
addresses. It's a simple matter to disguise your posted email address
so that these software "bots" can't obtain anything useful. For
example, insert some obviously bogus characters or words into your reply
address, for example: "(e-mail address removed)."

2) Never, ever reply to any spam you receive, even to "unsubscribe" or
"remove" yourself from the spammers' address lists; you'll only compound
the problem. If spammers had any intention of honoring the your desire
not to receive spam, they wouldn't have become spammers in the first
place. When you reply to a spammer, all you're doing is confirming that
he/she has a valid, marketable email address.

3) Be especially leery of any offers from websites for free software,
services, information, etc, that require your email address, or that
require your email address so you can "login" to access the offered
service and/or information. Many such sites are supplementing their
income by collecting addresses to sell to the spammers. For instance,
subscribing to CNN.COM's Breaking News Service will garner you a lot of
additional spam. (Of course, not all such sites have under-handed
motives; it's a judgment call. If the offer seems "too good to be
true," it's most likely a scam.)

4) DO forward any and all spam, with complete headers, to the
originating ISP with a complaint. Not all ISPs will make an effort to
shut down the spammers, but many will. One tool that makes forwarding
such complaints fairly simple is SpamCop (http://spamcop.net).

4) Another useful tool is MailWasher (http://www.mailwasher.net). This
utility allows you to preview your email before downloading it from the
server. Spammers can even be blacklisted, so that any future emails
from them will be automatically deleted from the server.

5) Within Outlook Express or whatever other email client application
you use, add any spammers to your Blocked Senders list, so the their
messages are automatically deleted from the server without being
downloaded to your PC.


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Bruce Chambers

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