Reply to: Barclays - confirmation of your personal details

[Captain Jack]

I usually use the BT Yahoo client, so that's no good. I need something that works before it gets to my BT Yahoo inbox, and I don't think I can add anything to BT's Spamguard (sic!).

I've got other anti-spam stuff at my Outlook client end, but I don't always use it.

I run my own domain so what I do is forward all mail received there to my spamcop box. Then I can either read it from anywhere using the spamcop webmail client or download it using Outlook or your mail client of choice by polling the POP3 box in the usual way.

The beauty is the spam blocking is done server side so you never see it unless you want to look in the server side spam box. Cut my spam receipts client side from 150-200/day to 4 or 5 a day overnight.

[wendigo100]

Just hire somebody from Bangalore to check the emails and remove the spam for you. Surely it's cheaper than buying any software?

I'm with BT Yahoo - so that's what I'm doing now!

[To BI or not to BI?]

I usually use the BT Yahoo client, so that's no good. I need something that works before it gets to my BT Yahoo inbox, and I don't think I can add anything to BT's Spamguard (sic!).

I've got other anti-spam stuff at my Outlook client end, but I don't always use it.

Just hire somebody from Bangalore to check the emails and remove the spam for you. Surely it's cheaper than buying any software?

[wendigo100]

(Can http://www.spamcop.net be piggy-backed onto BT Yahoo)

If BT Yahoo can forward all mail received, yes.

I usually use the BT Yahoo client, so that's no good. I need something that works before it gets to my BT Yahoo inbox, and I don't think I can add anything to BT's Spamguard (sic!).

I've got other anti-spam stuff at my Outlook client end, but I don't always use it.

[Ardesco]

I just run my own mail server and spamassassin makes short work of most spams with some good rules set up.

Snap

[wendigo100]

odd - my yahoo mail places 99% of those bank and erectile things directly into the spam folder.

Same here with the banks. My original point was how come we are still receiving them, which has sort of been answered. I think.

The spam that gets through BT Yahoo's filters to me is rarely erectile or other easily-spotted stuff.

[tim123]

I've been receiving this spam / phishing expedition every day for weeks now. How come it hasn't been closed down yet, and the perpetrators banged to rights?

Becuase they are generally sent via remote computers that have been hijacked.

tim

[DS23]

Private.

I get over 200 spams a day now, of which BT Yahoo only manage to intercept half of them, despite me marking all spam in my inbox.

odd - my yahoo mail places 99% of those bank and erectile things directly into the spam folder.

[Captain Jack]

If BT Yahoo can forward all mail received, yes.

What's a contractor doing using BT Yahoo anyway?

[wendigo100]

http://www.spamcop.net

At $30pa worth its weight in gold.

Can it be piggy-backed onto my BT Yahoo account?

[To BI or not to BI?]

http://www.spamcop.net

At $30pa worth its weight in gold.

Which, considering that we are talking about software, would be nothing, so you are overpaying $30 pa for the stuff

(BI in pedantic mode)

[Sockpuppet]

I just run my own mail server and spamassassin makes short work of most spams with some good rules set up.

[Captain Jack]

http://www.spamcop.net

At $30pa worth its weight in gold.

[wendigo100]

PS Wendigo - do you receive these spams in your private or work email account ?

Private.

I get over 200 spams a day now, of which BT Yahoo only manage to intercept half of them, despite me marking all spam in my inbox.

[el duder]

I've been receiving this spam / phishing expedition every day for weeks now. How come it hasn't been closed down yet, and the perpetrators banged to rights?

same same!