I get more spam and junk mail than should be possible. I have so far put this down as being the cost of internet access but things have taken a turn that I really dont like. I am now getting e-mails that show my own e-mail address as the sender!?! The are growing in frequency and they seem to be sexual. I find this very disturbing...any advice on how to put a stop to this and if possible to find out who is behind it and if there is any action that can be taken against them would be a great help.
It's possible that a person in your email chain, who is already infected by a spam virus, has forwarded emails with your address in the 'to' field, and this has inadvertently placed you on a spammers list; or a possible mailing list or forum you have signed up for, has forwarded or posted your email address elsewhere, and this may have been detected by an email search robot. This address then gets added to the already huge spam email list, hence you sending yourself spam emails.
You should set up filters, possibly by blocking out words you don't want to be associated with, for example v**g*a.
You could also block your own email address from sending mails to yourself by going to My Settings/Blocked list
enter your Orange email address
select the radio box to either
a) be deleted immediately (and not sent to my Junk Mail folder)
or b) be moved into my Junk mail folder(and be deleted automatically after 7 days)
If you have multiple email addresses on your account do this for all of them
Spammers often use the senders own e-mail address in the from box. It's easily spoofed and makes it more difficult to trace. I've had 2 occasions where one of my addresses was sent in the from box on a spammers 'mail run' and I got hundreds of bounced messages in my inbox in the space of a few minutes.
Spam is a fact of life and its difficult to do anything about. I'm responsible for a mail server that serves around 150 staff at a secondary school. It has a spam filter (Spam assassin) which takes out around 1000 spams a day. It dumps more mail than it delivers and some still gets through (around 5% if my inbox is anything to go by). Most of the stuff that slips through is for fake Rolexes and dodgy University degrees. It gets almost all of the sex, pills and potions c**p.
Unfortunately there is not a lot you can do to block spoofed spam from valid email addresses unless you set up some inbound/outbound filters as pluggy suggested.
Have you tried submitting the spam you receive in your inbox to the Orange spam filters? This should tag any similar mails as spam in the future.
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