Does the "Not Spam" button really do anything?

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Does the SPAM button for reporting spam messages work? and if so how?

I have a yahoo account and as time progresses the amount of spam I get per day also increases. Everytime spam gets delivered into my inbox I report it as spam with the SPAM button. Yet every day I seem to get more spam. Does any one else have this problem. Do other people press the SPAM button and have yet to see a reduction of spam? I don't understand this at all. I do not subscribe to anything using my yahoo email. I just communicate with friends and such. Yet I get mortgage offers and much more...

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So far, my spam works,, Do you have spam connected? If . not.....if you do not, they will keep sending...

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Can i hack my own spam e-mail?

ok i have a spam e-mail at walla, ofcorse for a spam e-mail i dident fill in my real birthday, name, sirname and basicly anything they asket me to fill in. recently i decided 2 rejister something and it sent me a confirmation e-mail, i havent logged...

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No. Hacking email is illegal. Are we supposed to just take your word for it that this is your email...

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Facebook wont let me login "keep your account free of spam"?

i tried to login into my facebook account just now and it popped of saying "keep your account free of spam. it looks like spammy link posted into your address bar caused unintentional activity on your Facebook account. Dont worry, your account is...

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There is a common rootkit called "Facebook Koobface" that automatically steals passwords and...

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Why does yahoo refuse to create a filter to block .info spam?

I have 500 address in my blocking list and 495 of them are from a .info domain. Yet, I still continue to get at least 20 emails a day from other .info domains. I can't report them, or yahoo will shut me down. I can't block them because yahoo refuses...

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You are correct. It seems like 99% of the dot info websites are scams or spams. You can read about the...

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Yahoo! Mail (deleting Email and marking as spam)?

in Yahoo! Mail i have a crapload of mail i wanna get rid of, however when i click the delete button or spam button nothing happens...it makesthe clicky noise but i could sit there hours and it wouldnt do anything...anything i can do? sorry for the lack...

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Have you checked the boxes of the emails you want to delete? You didn't say, so if you haven't then...

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Controlling Spam?

Dear Lucee. Thanks for your answer, BUT In my previous question I wasn't clear enough. The unwanted spam is in my BULK mail but there is no way to identify it as Spam. There is no button for Spam for bulk mail e-mails. I would like to cut down on them...

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You can forward such email to spam@uce.gov I have set up a filter to collect all the mail I WANT into...

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Lately, a lot of spam has been filtering into my inbox?

I don't click on "unsubscribe" links because I know they're nothing more than a confirmation that my email address is good. It used to be if something I got in my inbox was spam, I click on the spam button and anything from that IP address...

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Spammers can change their e-mail address and IP address. Or the Yahoo Mail filters don't work.

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Why is the spam button not working?

Hello. I've been using yahoo for several years now, but lately i've noticed that the spam button is not working for my email. I'll receive an email from some company, let's say Viacom Insider, and I'll mark it as spam, thinking that I'll stop receiving...

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Each user is ultimately "responsible" for the amount of spam they get, just by the way they...

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You need to remove her address from the blocked list. On your mail page, click on "options"...

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Spam filtering not working in my Groups area?

Hi, I moderate a Yahoo Group. I get tons of Spam mail sent to the email address of the group. Spam filtering of messages is ON, accordiing to the Management screen. However, there is never anything in the Spam folder. And, there does not appear to be...

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I have noticed the same. The built-in spam filter is mostly useless. Just set the messages to moderate...

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