I Had at Least 150 pieces of Spam in My E-Mail This Morning

Pecos

Pecos

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This morning I had ate least 150 E-mails (G-mail) thanking me for signing up for some service, or establishing an account, or joining their group, or etc. All of them wanting me to create a sign-in, or complete their registration. Some of these E-mails were in foreign languages.

Obviously, some individual or organization sold my E-mail address and went to the trouble of starting a signup process. This has never happened to me before and I have no idea who all these companies and organization are. They ranged from political, to commercial, to religious, to you name.

I sent all of them to spam, but is there something else I need to do to avoid this nuisance in the future.

Has anyone else from this forum encountered this?
 

I get a couple of promotional emails a day but Gmail sends any spam, which I rarely get, to the spam folder. In the past 3 weeks, I've only gotten two spam emails
 
Today, I received an e-card from a site I used to subscribe to. I didn't recognize the name of the sender, so immediately deleted it.

I rarely get spam these days. Not complaining!
 
I have said before, "Block" every piece of spam,
you will soon get none, I keep getting one a day
from an Email address that is something like
"Permittedmail", the there is always a different few
letters attached to the front and it keeps getting
through.

Mike.
 
Some spammers change the address slightly so you still get them even when you try to block them. I really don't understand what they are trying to achieve.
I have more than one e-mail address and keep one just for personal messages from family. I don't get spam in that one.Then if the spam in one of the others gets really bad, I can cancel the offending address without it causing too much hassle.
 
kburra said:
When you block a sender in Gmail, their messages will go to your Spam folder.
  1. On your computer, go to Gmail.
  2. Open the message.
  3. In the top right, click More .
    Click Block [sender].
    Remember still have to empty the Spam folder though.
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Good reminder, I had over 3500 items in my spam folder and over 5000 in my trash.
It took a little while to get rid of them.
Thanks
 
Pecos said:
This morning I had ate least 150 E-mails (G-mail) thanking me for signing up for some service, or establishing an account, or joining their group, or etc. All of them wanting me to create a sign-in, or complete their registration. Some of these E-mails were in foreign languages.

Obviously, some individual or organization sold my E-mail address and went to the trouble of starting a signup process. This has never happened to me before and I have no idea who all these companies and organization are. They ranged from political, to commercial, to religious, to you name.

I sent all of them to spam, but is there something else I need to do to avoid this nuisance in the future.

Has anyone else from this forum encountered this?
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Change your password now, and every day for a while..
 
Open the email,click on the the three dots (Top right) choose "Block Sender"
 

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