Yup, I have an "other" email address I give out everywhere, to every one. My main email gets very little spam, and that gets filtered out.

Main thing to remember is to NEVER give out your main email to anything you sign up to.

Moni

I also have noted a marked increase in spam to my yahoo account, which I try to not give out...in the last couple of weeks. I think it's mostly some sort of bot trying to get clicks, because all the spams are basically alike, just different addresses (email and http click addresses inside). Obviously, I am never going to click on one.

If you are getting them in your inbox rather than in the spam folder you must teach your email where to put them. Never just delete them instead choose to move them to the spam folder. Once it learns that is spam it will redirect them. Having good filters set up is also important. Using the block doesn't really help much since there's so many. I very very rarely get any in my inbox but I do get some in my spam folder but not bad. Just don't get on any of those forward forward forwarded emails! That's a spammers dream.

The Yahoo block function never seemed to work for me so I ignore it. I think part of the reason it was ineffective was that as dbarron says, spam senders spoof the sender domain and keep changing what the message origins show, to defeat blocks. But Yahoo does seem pretty adept at keeping the phony messages out of my inbox, I can't remember the last time one made it through.

It's funny how Google seems to be better at blocking spam messages altogether.

I have one e-mail address through g-mail. I use it for everything. My spam filter seems to get things right.

they are going into the spam box but they still shouldn't be doing that with all the blocks I have. Its so frustrating, I just hate seeing it when it used to be so clean. Gmail is just as bad!

You can safely ignore the spam folder completely. Don't open it, you won't be irritated by what is or isn't there.

Most systems erase spam folder contents automatically after a few days, so you don't even need to concern yourself with doing that.

Oh well that's entirely different, don't even look at it, why would it bother you in the spam folder that means your email program is working as it should. Let it dispose of them or just click delete on the spam folder to get rid of them. I don't care or know what in in there it gets deleted. Don't you get fliers and junk mail in your real mailbox? I know I do and it goes directly into the trash can.

Every time you visit websites they put tracker cookies on your pc . If you order online you give your email address, it gets shared among the "partners" they now have your email address, they share with their "partners". On and on. I have ordered from Amazon recently and twice now the company that had the product that I ordered from Amazon have emailed me directly asking for my opinion and asked for feedback. I don't like this new development, but I did place the order and I had to provide my email address. It is what it is, also Facebook and other social media that encourages sharing every thing well it's going to happen a lot. Expect that to increase not decrease. But not using that primary email address online and among friends will help. It's your friends that are the likely culprits, forwarding emails with long list of everyone's address on them. Use BCC if you must forward! And if someone you know is doing it and including your email address then tell them to stop. I see a signature quite often asking to please use BCC or remove their address before forwarding. If someone does not know how to do that by now, ask for help or use Google to learn more about proper etiquette in email forwarding.

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I disagree with ignoring the spam folder. There will be valid emails in there probably at least a couple times a month for me. YMMV It takes very little time to check it. I do advise caution about opening mail in there however.

I get very little spam relatively speaking. Some things that help:
- Have an account with some uncommon symbols, so spammers won't just use name and word combinations to bulk mail you
- Having trained the email for the common spam. I have never seen a limit on what I can submit for spam. What accounts do this?
- Exercise caution to whom you give the address.
- Clear cookies and junk files at least once a week.
- Regular system maintenance in case of malware.
- I use Opera rather than the Internet Elephant which has been at least anecdotally successful in avoiding problems.

I'm guessing if you're seeing an increase in spam you're giving out your address. To vendors? (Read your fine print, many are given permission by you to sell your contact info.) To friends who "cc" everyone in their address book and never clear addresses from the body of the mail?

By using caution, I get very few junk calls, spam or junk mail. Took some work to get to that point but I'm now reaping the benefits. That's one reason I think twice about moving and starting over.