Sunday, May 23, 2010

Who can i contact about scam type emails on yahoo email?

I keep getting emails from people saying they are ill and want to send me so much money and i'm sick of it, i have marked them as spam and even blocked the addresses and still get them.

Who can i contact about scam type emails on yahoo email?
http://help.yahoo.com/help/uk/mail/spam/...


Please view the above link. If that does not work please continue to the link below:


http://help.yahoo.com/help/uk/mail/spam/...





Summed up:





send a copy of the abuse email full header, a copy of the email, the senders address and the reason you wish to report the sender to:





abuse@yahoo.com
Reply:The reality is that reporting spam does very little good. What is much more important is how YOU handle such mails in your account. First of all, you should NEVER open those mails. In fact, you should never open mails from anyone you don't know. Opening just one could greatly increase the amount of spam you get in the future. STOP opening them!!


1. Spam mails that go straight to Bulk should be left there, unopened. You can empty the Bulk folder any time you want, but never NEVER open spam mails. And don't try to unsubscribe from anything.


2. Spam mails that land in your Inbox should be marked as Spam so that they are moved to Bulk and placed on the Blocked list. (Blocking an address prevents mails from being received from that address again in the future.)


3. Any email that you are the least bit suspicious about should be deleted immediately. Don't let curiosity get the better of you. Simply opening a spam email out of curiosity could alert the spammers that you have an active email address (they probably didn't know it before), to which they will undoubtedly send TONS of spam mail in the future.


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