Anyone feel free to copy this below letter and forward to Yahoo customer service at: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/forms_index.html
To whom it may concern at Yahoo’s free e-mail customer service:
The time has come to finally consider upgrading your spam diagnostics software on the FREE e-mail accounts too, and not just the petty /year premium e-mail service. Yahoo e-mail does a HORRIBLE job filtering spam from my inbox & this has ongoing problem for YEARS & YEARS.
The reporting of spam to Yahoo over and over has resulted in zero benefits of alleviating the problem. I continue to receive several hundred e-mails, that are CLEARLY SPAM before even reading it, a month at my personal Yahoo e-mail address. Most of which spam is written in the exact same format or wording. It is so ridiculous your spam filters do not catch it!?!?!?!
You are making the decision very easy for me, a user of Yahoo email and MyYahoo home page since I have owned a computer, to finally consider moving to using Google’s home page/Gmail or Hotmail’s free services. Of the hundreds/thousand people I know, there is maybe five (5) TOTAL that still use Yahoo. That’s it… maybe 5!!! Easily > 90% have switched to using Gmail or Hotmail, as did their advertising revenue $$$$$ as well, long ago because of this spam issue with your service.
When are you finally going to do something, anything about upgrading the spam filtering for Yahoo FREE e-mail accounts????
Regards,
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I know how frustrating spam and mail scams can be, so I researched it and found ways to fight it.
#1: Yahoo has a spamguard filter, but only if multiple users report an address as spam will it be treated as such by the filter.
You have a personal list for blocking addresses in spam options. Anything you mark as spam in Mail classic will be added to that list, in New Yahoo mail adding addresses to the list has to be done manually. If you ever receive anything from those addresses in the future, it will be deleted automatically, you won’t even notice when you got some more crap from them. One problem though: the list of blocked addresses is limited to 500 and spammers often change their address. So you must sometimes delete some of the older blocked addresses to make room for new ones.
Go to this link where everything is explained in detail:
http://help.yahoo.com/us/tutorials/mail/mail/spamguard1.html
#2: The Federal Trade Commission (www.ftc.gov) is supposed to help you eliminate spam mails. Forward spam to: spam@uce.gov, in the subject line enter something like "unsubscribe link results in more spam", "unwanted spam message", "no unsubscribe link" or something similar.
When the FTC gets your mail, they will look into the matter and when they find out who the spamming source is, they will take legal actions.
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/spam/index.html
#3: Check Mailwasher, it helps to eliminate spam from your inbox…
Set up your email account(s) in MailWasher and hit the "Check Mail" button. It then downloads all new message headers and displays message details alongside each one (priority, subject, from, to, etc.). Any email that MailWasher considers to be spam is highlighted for easy sorting.
Two checkboxes are located next to each message header: "Delete" and "Bounce". If you click "Delete" the email will be marked for deletion, click "Bounce" and the mail will be marked for bouncing – a fake "address not found" email will be sent to the sender. Once you have decided what to bounce and delete, click "Process Mail" to get it done and your mail client launched for downloading all accepted emails.
MailWasher has a "blacklist" and a "friends list" to enter good and bad email addresses. Addresses in the blacklist are marked for deletion, and addresses in the friends list will be marked as okay. Filters can be set to increase MailWasher’s effectiveness. You can have email addressed to "undisclosed recipients" automatically deleted and bounced for example.
Note: the program is free but limited to one email account. MW Pro supports multiple mail accounts.
http://www.mailwasher.net/