I have my spam blocker on and I am still getting a lot of ( like 30 or 40 a day) junk emails in my bulk folder that are dated for the next day or the day after that. How can I stop this and why am I getting them?
The people sending spam sometimes use incorrect dates and times to get their email to the top or bottom of your inbox so you will notice them.
It’s good that they are properly identified as bulk/spam/junk emails. Somehow spammers have your email address. They could have got it when you went to a web site of theirs, from the person who had the email address before you, or from an email that was sent with your address on it (like chain letters that get sent to lots of people). Someone you gave your email address to may have sold it to spammers.
You can forward such email to
It does help. Spammers resist, which lets me know it helps more than we know. Spam to my email went down after I started forwarding it all to
I have set up a filter to collect all the mail I WANT into a “keep” folder. I read that email first, since it’s from addresses on my list.
You will still need to look at your inbox because there’ll always be a chance someone you want to get email from is not on your list.
I wouldn’t bother setting up a second filter to keep out bad email, because that would be a third folder you would need to check because it will sometimes catch your friends’ emails.
Yahoo lets you right click on email messages and identify them as spam. I’ve never known of Yahoo stopping any email I wanted.
With Outlook you can right click on an email message and look at the properties. Then you can look at the “source”. That will let you look at a questionable email without actually opening it. Opening some emails can activate pictures and things they’ve designed to reach back to their web sites to save information like your email address. For this reason I would turn off features in your email that let you “preview” messages, because that preview can get information from the attackers web site.
If something in the text doesn’t identify the email as being from someone you know then you should not open the email.
Most people consider bulk email to be spam. Don’t trust any bulk email or spam. If you respond to them in any way they make a profit from it and will continue.
If the spam is clearly trying to get you to send them money you can go to and use the “file a complaint” link in the center near the top. It will help give them the information they need to track the mass fraud.
Contrary to what you might read here, spammers DON’T get your email address off some list that has been bought and sold many times over or even from visited websites. Modern day spammers generate their own lists by computer, creating very long lists of sequential addresses (such as,,,, etc), sometimes several million addresses long. They know that in those millions of addresses, some of them have to be real addresses. They are hoping you will open their mails, which will alert them that you do in fact have an active address. They then compile their own lists of active addresses that they can FLOOD with emails.
The lesson here is to be smart about handling mails that come from people we don’t know and trust. Blocking does little good nowadays because spammers don’t go back and reuse email addresses, making it virtually impossible for our Block feature to be effective.
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The people sending spam sometimes use incorrect dates and times to get their email to the top or bottom of your inbox so you will notice them.
It’s good that they are properly identified as bulk/spam/junk emails. Somehow spammers have your email address. They could have got it when you went to a web site of theirs, from the person who had the email address before you, or from an email that was sent with your address on it (like chain letters that get sent to lots of people). Someone you gave your email address to may have sold it to spammers.
You can forward such email to
It does help. Spammers resist, which lets me know it helps more than we know. Spam to my email went down after I started forwarding it all to
I have set up a filter to collect all the mail I WANT into a “keep” folder. I read that email first, since it’s from addresses on my list.
You will still need to look at your inbox because there’ll always be a chance someone you want to get email from is not on your list.
I wouldn’t bother setting up a second filter to keep out bad email, because that would be a third folder you would need to check because it will sometimes catch your friends’ emails.
Yahoo lets you right click on email messages and identify them as spam. I’ve never known of Yahoo stopping any email I wanted.
With Outlook you can right click on an email message and look at the properties. Then you can look at the “source”. That will let you look at a questionable email without actually opening it. Opening some emails can activate pictures and things they’ve designed to reach back to their web sites to save information like your email address. For this reason I would turn off features in your email that let you “preview” messages, because that preview can get information from the attackers web site.
If something in the text doesn’t identify the email as being from someone you know then you should not open the email.
Most people consider bulk email to be spam. Don’t trust any bulk email or spam. If you respond to them in any way they make a profit from it and will continue.
If the spam is clearly trying to get you to send them money you can go to and use the “file a complaint” link in the center near the top. It will help give them the information they need to track the mass fraud.
Contrary to what you might read here, spammers DON’T get your email address off some list that has been bought and sold many times over or even from visited websites. Modern day spammers generate their own lists by computer, creating very long lists of sequential addresses (such as,,,, etc), sometimes several million addresses long. They know that in those millions of addresses, some of them have to be real addresses. They are hoping you will open their mails, which will alert them that you do in fact have an active address. They then compile their own lists of active addresses that they can FLOOD with emails.
The lesson here is to be smart about handling mails that come from people we don’t know and trust. Blocking does little good nowadays because spammers don’t go back and reuse email addresses, making it virtually impossible for our Block feature to be effective.