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1438024	2017-08-06 22:38:00	Some dodgy site was using my email address to send me emails. I tried to blacklist this sender but it won't allow me to do so for reason being that I can't blacklist my own email address. I am using Spark webmail. Any clue?	bk T (215)
1438025	2017-08-07 00:46:00	Contact Spark and get them to sort it?	Bryan (147)
1438026	2017-08-07 02:00:00	Some dodgy site was using my email address to send me emails. I tried to blacklist this sender but it won't allow me to do so for reason being that I can't blacklist my own email address. I am using Spark webmail. Its called email spoofing, very common . Any half descent spam filter service will block it or move it into the spam filter . The Spark system should just see that it wasnt in fact sent from you & just block it. I would contact spark & ask why their system isnt doing this most basic level of email filtering .	1101 (13337)
1438027	2017-08-07 04:31:00	Not directly answering your question, but I recently came across this tip (for Gmail users) that I thought I would share - copied below. May help in the future if you are trying to figure out which company is spamming you / sold your email address: Gmail Tricks: Find out who sold your email to spammers If you want to keep track of how your email address is used (ie, when you sign up to a newsletter), add “.” (period only) anywhere in your username. This way you’ll create a new ‘alias’ email address and all the messages sent to that new ‘alias’ address will get forwarded to your primary Gmail address. For example, if your email address is someone@gmail.com, you can enter some.one@gmail.com as your address when signing up for an account or a newsletter and you’ll still receive the messages in your primary inbox. The same is true if you use “+anyword” after the first part of your email address, i.e. someone+anyword@gmail.com. Gmail ignores the “+anyword” when sending messages to your account, but you’ll still see someone+anyword@gmail.com if you check the “To:” line in the message. Why is this useful? If you use these tricks when you sign up to different newsletters and you start receiving spam, you’ll know which newsletter sold your email address to spammers.	Chikara (5139)
1438028	2017-08-07 04:58:00	Gmail Tricks: Find out who sold your email to spammers . not really so usefull. You should be using a junk email account to give to websites etc. Never give your main email unless theres a damn good reason to do so Just make another un-connected email accound eg sendmespam@gmail.com. Use that when sites etc ask for email . Spammers get email lists from stolen address books(yahoo), stolen email lists , taken off your website if you have one (they have robots trawling websites for emails). NO.1 is make sure your website hasnt got your email on any of the pages and they just guess emails , if they guess enough they will get many valid ones.	1101 (13337)
1438029	2017-08-07 06:46:00	Hi bk T Have faced a similar situation on Xtra webmail, which I use. First put these emails into the SPAM folder, this will alert Xtra to make changes re these emails. Upper right (Not the browser, which may have these too) there are three/four horizontal slashes. Click on this and select Settings, go to email and select "Rules" Make a rule that anything with the word(s) ........ be deleted, or whatever. I did this with "Apple" and "Paypal". Told friends that if they discovered a delicious apple then sorry, no matter that they wanted to try it - the email would be deleted. The problem was not with Apple nor Paypal, but with spammers. Since I do not have a Paypal account it was a no-brainer!	Misty (368)
1438030	2017-08-07 07:02:00	Thanks, Misty.	bk T (215)
1438031	2017-08-07 11:32:00	not really so usefull. You should be using a junk email account to give to websites etc. Never give your main email unless theres a damn good reason to do so Just make another un-connected email accound eg sendmespam@gmail.com. Use that when sites etc ask for email . Spammers get email lists from stolen address books(yahoo), stolen email lists , taken off your website if you have one (they have robots trawling websites for emails). NO.1 is make sure your website hasnt got your email on any of the pages and they just guess emails , if they guess enough they will get many valid ones. Depends on the situation. If it's a one-off situation, I agree with you. But if it's a company you will be having ongoing dealings with, and expect to get communications from, nobody really wants to have a single different email address in those cases. Especially if you may want to keep the email for future reference. This gmail tip won't stop spam but it will at least let you know who on-sold your email address	Chikara (5139)
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