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? asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo MailAbuse and spam · 1 decade ago

How come ALL of the spammers who email me want to sell me Viagra or Cialis?

I get nothing else and the subject lines are hilarious: "Dip into the passion ocean", "you'll never deflate when you take these pills", or "look no further for harder drilling". LOL.

I mean, are these spammers just able to get past spam guard better than others? Is there an exorbitant amount of this stuff floating around somewhere? I don't get it. A little variety in my spam would be nice ;-) :-).

Update:

Thanx you two :-). But, I am aware of all you've told me. I don't open them, of course, and I do mark them as spam. Problem, Lyn G is that they seem to use a variety of domains *and* user-names, including Yahoo.

This problem is associated with my Y!A account. In hindsight, I should have never used this email to place orders. Should have created a new one, simply for that purpose.

Anyhow, if I blocked everything, I wouldn't receive email from people with Yahoo accounts from whom I'd like to receive mail.

I was particularly wondering, though, why Viagra and Cialis are such a popular spam items. Perhaps it is for the reason you state, Lyn G. Don't know.

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Hmm. Once upon a time I got lots of them, but now? I can't remember what I did. Probably tick and spam button before opening them, or was it my home account. Perhaps windows mail does a better job against spam, too good sometimes. I guess there is more money to be made in cialas and viagra. L-arginine is a lot cheaper and possibly healthier. L-tyrosine makes a good co-factor for that.

  • Lyn G
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Yes, some are better at getting through the spam guards than others. Be thrilled those really are all you get. There are MASSIVE amounts of spam out there. Personally, I do not want ANY, it is a waste of my time and energy. If you want them to stop, STOP opening them! Opening spam alerts the sender that your address is a valid one and they send you loads and loads more. You can not completely stop all spam, but you can help to put a big dent in it.

    Check mark them and click on 'Spam,' this should stop those addresses from being delivered to your inbox.

    Use your spam guard and block address.

    Look for the 'Options' link at upper right corner of mail screen and click on it

    Options /mail options

    Click on 'spam' in the list on the left.

    Make sure spam guard is on, by checking in the little box.

    Then in 'Blocked Email Addresses,' enter the E-mail address you wish blocked, in the box after 'Add a blocked address' and click on the 'add' button, then click on save changes at top left of screen.

    You will never get mail from that address again.

    This should help you to control your spam.

    Other tips:

    Do not ever open E-mail from people you do not know; and unless you are absolutely sure who it is from then treat them as spam.

    Never, ever give out your account information or other personal information to anyone.

    If you are on a site and you absolutely have to sign up for something, check the entire page to make sure you uncheck any lines wanting to send you any other info, notices, catalogs, ads, and the like.

    Added detail:

    Yes, spammers change one item in their addresses a lot, so you might try blocking the entire domain, by putting in

    *@ thedomainyouwanttoblock.com

    for instance: *@seeyou.com

    Or, if they change the domain, instead of the company name you can block the name by putting in Imatheft_inc@*

    Hope this helps

  • magoun
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

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  • 1 decade ago

    If you open spam emails, and the images are not blocked, they know you opened it. Then they will keep sending you more cr*p. Yahoo and Gmail do a pretty good job of blocking spam.

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    6 years ago

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It might depend on how they got your email address. All I seem to get is computer products from China and Russian Mafia stuff (for some reason, the Russian Mafia believe I am Spanish).

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    if you click mark as spam you won't see it at all

    or if you want to look at them they are probably that because of they are the "newest thing"

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