Blocking email

[siousxiesue]

I'm suddenly the recipient of a lot more spam email - vile stuff covered in heart symbols offering sex BUT when I click the 'Block' button it informs me I'm blocking all emails from...my own email address?

Baffled

[Loz]

Spammers 'spoof' the from address (and/or the reply-to address) and quite often use your own address just to get around spam filters.

But filtering on the from address is pretty useless anyway, as they use all sorts of addresses. I often get spam from friends addresses, often because they have been hacked. If you are on Hotmail or Gmail or whatever, you are better off looking into turning on the inbuilt spam filter. These look at the message itself and the email metadata and try to make a better educated guess.

[Inbound]

You can check via the link I have posted to see if your account has been compromised.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

[JohnL]

change of password ?

look at the email header ?

[nxjen]

About 18 months ago, I also started receiving large amount of spam featuring my email address. I religiously marked everything as Spam. It took a while but the spam filters eventually started picking them up and putting them straight into the Spam folder.

[Sue]

I've found Gmail is really good at blocking spam.

I have the opposite problem. It puts things into my spam folder which aren't spam and then deletes them after thirty days..

I only found this out recently :(

And when informed that they aren't spam, it continues to treat emails from that address as spam :(

[DulwichFox]

Sue Wrote:

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> I've found Gmail is really good at blocking spam.

>

> I have the opposite problem. It puts things into

> my spam folder which aren't spam and then deletes

> them after thirty days..

>

> I only found this out recently :(

>

> And when informed that they aren't spam, it

> continues to treat emails from that address as

> spam :(

Just ADD to Safe Senders list..

Foxy

[Siduhe]

This might not be related but there was a huge dump of emails and passwords recently - discovered a couple of weeks ago but likely stolen a while back. Have a check against your address on the HaveIBeenPwned site linked above. Apparently these addresses were particularly being used to send email via SMTP - this could be why you're seeing emails from yourself. May be worth changing your email password just in case.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/30/spambot-leaks-700m-email-addresses-huge-data-breach-passwords

[Sue]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Sue Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > I've found Gmail is really good at blocking

> spam.

> >

> > I have the opposite problem. It puts things

> into

> > my spam folder which aren't spam and then

> deletes

> > them after thirty days..

> >

> > I only found this out recently :(

> >

> > And when informed that they aren't spam, it

> > continues to treat emails from that address as

> > spam :(

>

> Just ADD to Safe Senders list..

>

Unfortunately it is messages sent via a contact form on our website, so I dont' think that solution would work.

[DulwichFox]

Hi Sue..

Common problem.. The Mail Agent recognises your site and when your visitors Submit your Form

The mail client sees that the mail is being sent to itself. The solution is to divert the mail to another account.

DulwichFox

[Sue]

Except that it is only a few of the messages which go into spam.

Most of them are delivered as normal.