Spam E-mail etc. my suggestions

Am heartily fed up with these folks filing my mailbox and mobile phone! Just like everyone else is, I suppose.

A lady called Sandra who continually asks if I ‘remember’ her. Ads for viagra and penis enlargement are favourites and the usual Nigerians, asking me to launder £25m quid for them. Etc etc ……

Things you can do.

1. Complain Take the trouble to find out, who is the offenders ‘service provider’.

In the case of mail from a yahoo, send a copy to,

abuse@yahoo.com

and say your complaining, and require action!

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/config/config-11.html

most other email providers, can be contacted via the same ‘form’ of email address.

2. Register your e-mail – I have registered all my e-mail addresses with the:

E-Mail Preference Service Limited http://www.emailpreferenceservice.com

it is an outfit related to the Data Commissioner. It takes 10 days or so, to crack in, so I’m still getting a fair amount of rubbish every day. After that, it becomes an offence, and I may be able to proceed against folks for damages! I have a history of this sort of thing. So, am giving it a go.

Needless to say, I have tried the ‘polite approach’ in asking folks to stop bothering me! Politness on the internet, it seems, just doesn’t work 🙂

Years ago, I registered with the ‘Telephone Preference Service [there is a fax one also] .

I was bothered loads by double glazing sales etc. it works!! I’m not any more.

Hope this helps folks.

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