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Being spammed by SendingFun.com

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by cmb from omaha

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I am being spammed several times daily by an outfit called "SendingFun.com", although they use other aliases too. I'm POSITIVE that I never knowingly gave permission for these emails.

Since I have broadband access, this spam is more of an annoyance than anything else, but I wondered whether anyone had experience with trying to get off of their list? I know that sometimes trying to unsubscribe can be a real mistake.

Please note that I will only award points to someone who has had actual experience (good or bad)with trying to get off of this site's mailing lists. Thanks!

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by r. a. caluste

if you are using outlook do the following:
1) create a rule to move new messages when they arrive
2) with specific words from the message header (enter the aliases they use, including sendingfun.com)
3) action should be to move these messages to the deleted items folder. problem solved.

by cmb from omaha

Thanks, but I guess I didn't make myself clear. I'm already moving these messages to "Junk mail" using an Outlook rule. I want to know whether there's a way to stop receiving this cr-p altogether.

by b_pope

The simplest thing to do is change your email address, I've had to do this several times.

I'm now using 6 email addresses, I use 2 for personal & the other 4 for sites that require me to provide one. I keep a log file of sites & the addresses I provided, if someone starts spamming me I change that email address & notify any sites I need to of a new email address, there's usually only one or two.

If for any reason I need to still access the spamming site I use one of my hotmail addresses &don't worry about it again. You only have to sign into hotmail once a month otherwise they drop your account, & with a 2mb max size limit most get deleted, I send a 1.75mb file to my hotmail accounts & place in a folder it cuts down on the email nicely.

by b_pope

I should mention once the spammers start getting bounced email from hotmail they stop sending them pretty fast. Better than playing their unsubscribe games & you get the last laugh.

by r. a. caluste

if you want to prevent the spam from the client level, you might as well do it from the server level. i dont think you can stop them from sending you emails. even if you have requested them to remove you from the mailing list, _they still have your email address_ and some other punk server can use that to send you email and probably share their list of email address to other spam servers. so you see, you can stop one server from sending you mails, its hard to stop other servers coz they share their list. you can apply message filtering at the mail server level to block (or blacklist) unwanted email from a specific group or specific email address. I am using Exchange 2000 and if i want to blacklist an email address i do the ff:
a) run Exchange System Manager
b) go to Global settings/message delivery/properties/filtering tab
c) add the email address.
Any email from that email address will be rejected by your server.

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