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e-mails "Net Gamer"

Brian2208 · 2013-03-26 13:13:21

I'm after getting well over 100 e-mails from "Net Gamer" with the subject "Which Tech Company is positioned to have an explosive quarter" In the time it has taken to write this post I've gotten almost 20 more is anybody else getting these and how do I make it stop?

26-03-2013 1:13pm

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Brian2208

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I'm after getting well over 100 e-mails from "Net Gamer" with the subject "Which Tech Company is positioned to have an explosive quarter" In the time it has taken to write this post I've gotten almost 20 more

is anybody else getting these and how do I make it stop?

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#2 26-03-2013 3:59pm

Antar Bolaeisk

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Which provider are your e-mails hosted with?

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#3 26-03-2013 4:08pm

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yahoo

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#4 26-03-2013 4:29pm

Antar Bolaeisk

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Just follow these steps to block the domain the e-mails are coming from: http://help.yahoo.com/tutorials/mmail/mmail/mm_otherspam3.html

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#5 26-03-2013 4:47pm

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thanks, they've stopped now anyway. I got over 200 in the space of a couple of hours though!

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#6 26-03-2013 4:54pm

Antar Bolaeisk

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I'd recommend moving from yahoo to be honest, used to have an e-mail with them years ago but gave up when it just became too spammy. Set up a gmail account and fed the yahoo one to that, the spam was reduced dramatically.

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