Ridiculous amounts of spam. How do I get rid of it or at least report it?

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I havent a clue where its coming from but its annoying the hell out of me.

All the emails look like they are coming from different people but when I look at the email address they all start with "ds".
They're selling the same things too, a canadian pharmaceutical company, cheap computer programmes, Bingo and Megadik

I dont mind the odd spam emails but now I'm getting 50+ a day.
So how do I stop it?

Can't help but i am too - getting on my bloody nerves. Although the Megadik is tempting

SNORT

I did nearly literally pmsl when I first saw that one

Do you get the one about wonder cum as well? Dh swears he hasn't used my puter for anything dodgy!

Wonder Cum!

ROFL

But wtf is it?

Me too, yesterday I had well over 100 spam emails. I'm thinking I will just have to delete the account. I've tried blocking senders, but it doesn't seem to be helping. If anybody has any ideas, I'd be eternally grateful!

God knows - like it aint messy enough!

Well that was my last thought Scotia but I have so many things sent to my email, it would be a royal pita to change it.

It's supposed to inrease the amount of erm cum.

The spam ones come from people who get your email address from websites that you put them in to (I don't know how). The best way to get no spam is to have 2 email accounts. 1 that you use to email real people and 1 that you just use for all those websites where you need to put an email address in to register or if you do thinks like filling in surveys.

Or at least thats what I've been told. I don't know for sure as I was only told that after I complained about spam and I can't be bothered chaging my email address. I'm on googlemail and all the spam goes straight into a spam folder so I don't even look at it

I think I'll go back and have a look at my account.

I'll have to do something with it cos its driving me mad.

just had one from a Virgie Cummings

and now it says Orange are having technical difficulties so I cant set up a new account

Having said that, bet everyones got the same idea!

My spam filter auto-deleted 54 messages today so far, having identified them as being spam. Just had a quick look through them, and indeed they are spam, though none of them have an email address starting with "ds".

If you find that you get a lot of spam, then try using a commercial spam filter. I can recommend the one I use - Free Trial of ClearMyMail

Just tried to sign up nannynick but I cant find my pop3 server name anywhere on my settings

Its so annoying its untrue.

Hard to know how to help with that, as different e-mail software keeps that sort of things in different places.

If using Thunderbird, it is in:
Tools, Account Settings, Server Settings, Server Name

If using Outlook Express, try:
Tools, Accounts, Properties, Servers

Do you know, I think spam is very underrated. I had a spam butty the other way, bloody marvellous!

Ahh now Spam as in spam from a tin, lovely.
Very underrated, as are Pork scratchings.

I farking LOVE pork scratchings!

current spam deluge is due in part to the Storm worm botnet that's currently being hired out to spammers.. ..seems to be calming down again now though..