Do you guys get the ones that tell you they are a person from another country needing your help and they are hoping you will keep this corrospondance private? I only have 1 e-mail that I use for everything, I have another one I set up, but being technological challenged as I am I can't remember how to switch to it:( I keep getting the ones that say I have won the lottery too. I have learned not to open anything unless I know the person. Oh yeah and I got a nasty one too, that one really ticked me off, what if one of my kids had seen that? something to do with male enhancement, could see the pic just fine, but couldn't understand the paragraph. GW is really the only place I go to for the most part, but I do plant identification lookups, Travis gets on the Mustang sites for car parts, thats it, they are just plain creepy.

DA, no worries. Done the procrastinating thing myself before posting then find I am behind. Always better to have multiple answers as it helps give the original poster confidence perhaps. Fruitjarfla, I am not at all sure you are gaining anything by that action - assuming you rarely view the Spam box. Homebound was placed on alert as soon as the self addressed email arrived. Your method eliminates that advantage I would think.

Just curious, when you say, "never go online without doing so using a LiveLinux distro," are you referring in general to using a computer with a Linux OS, or are you referring to using a Linux CD ? If the latter, (to be clear) are you suggesting always to use a "live CD" for going online instead of the computer's own operating system (whether it's Linux or not) ? This post was edited by not2bright on Thu, Mar 7, 13 at 9:08

I have t-mobile, I called them up to complain, and they helped me online to completely block emails in "my settings". Since I blocked our e-mail, I still get text from my kids, and DH and NO ONE else. Most of the spam text are actually emails according to t-mobile and not text messages. What really bugs me is why the carriers don't send out a letter with the bill and say this is happening and how to stop it! Kathy